Scott C

If only this filter could filter out the mis-information that comes out of your mouth Mr Conroy, have you found any support for this pathetic idea outside of your circle of influenced 'friends'? Instead of steamrolling ahead, and wasting money (your government likes to waste money, $3k bonus for having kids, $1k handouts for everyone with kids, $45m filtering for the 'kids') its like we arent hitting tough economic times. You and your party are spending large amounts of every tax-payers money that doesnt benefit all tax-payers, but rather secludes it to just those with kids. Why am I driving on dangerous potholled roads through main arteries of Newcastle? Instead of spending money to fix the roads (or hospitals?), ridiculous amounts of money the Australian economy cant afford is being allocated to fancyful ideas of 'protecting' the children (a parents job anyway!) instead of fixing basic needs of road users who pay for rego, income tax, gst, fines, stamp duty, fuel excises and then maintenance for their cars after they are shaken to pieces driving on rough roads and then fail their next pink slip. The solution to these roads, is rather than fix it properly, is to drop the speed limit 20km/h and spend $5 on a new speed limit sign. Why when I did night courses at Tafe for the past year, were 80% of lights blown in the classrooms? Walls that havnt been cleaned since blackboards were removed years back? Why is there no money in the budget for TAFE basic maintenance? But there is for your magical filter? What a great society we must live in. Take a look around and ask what the Australian people would like $45 million dollars spent on, and out of a choice of hospitals/medicare, roads, education, TAFE systems, pool safety even or and enabling broadband in rural areas, spending it frivolously on filters which will effectively kill any broadband benefits is NOT going to be high on anyones list. Even those with kids. The only people you will find to support your ideas are those who do NOT use the internet regularly, and do NOT understand what your filtering will do, and love the propaganda that dribbles out of your mouth. Email me Mr Conroy, Id love to hear from you personally while my internet connection still works properly. I will take an early guess that theres no proper answer to be had. -Scott.