internet filter lacks concrete goals

What problem is the internet filter solving? What other solutions have been considered? What are the measures for success?

If the problem is child pornography, an internet filter will only hinder the efforts of the police. Paedophiles have historically been very early adopters of technology, and will go more underground into encrypted peer-to-peer networks to evade the filter.

The filter will have a huge negative impact on the Australian digital economy. What business would host e-services in Australia, where customer access to their sites could be blocked by a filter false-positive? With cheap overseas colocation services available they will move overseas en-masse.

Please stop wasting my tax dollars on this proposal. If it goes ahead you will lose my vote.