marcus westbury

Last month in Melbourne i joined a panel at the State Library of Victoria speaking out about the current internet filter proposal. Also on the panel was the parliament’s best and most consistent filter opponent Scott Ludlam, Greens Senator for Western Australia, professional provocateur Catherine Deveny, and Colin Jacobs who is the Chair of Electronic [...]

How can we make reasonable judgments about what is acceptable when censorship laws can’t keep up? Australia’s censorship and classification regime has a major problem. It is breaking, if not broken. It is in need of a serious national debate and not the simplistic solutions or opportunistic point-scoring that tends to characterise debates around censorship. [...]