Week 9 - Tute Task

·        Sign an e-petition.

<a href="http://www.gopetition.com/petition/43687.html">Save Gold Coast Parklands Show Grounds Petition | GoPetition</a>

I signed the Save Gold Coast Parklands Show Grounds petition, I was the third person to sign on for it.

·        What is Barak Obama up to today? Can you send him a message about the importance of freedom on the internet?

According to his twitter account, on the 21^st of September 2011 Barack addressed the United Nations General Assembly. The link to the video feed: http://www.whitehouse.gov/live?utm_source=wh.gov&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=shorturl

·        What are the Australian Government's plans to censor the internet (the so-called "Clean Feed")?

The Australian Government's plans to censor the internet with the program dubbed 'Clean Feed'. It is a filter with the intended target of protecting children by compulsory censorship of all websites showing child pornography and other material considered offensive.

Info from Anti Clean Feed Petition - http://nocleanfeed.com/

·       When will the NBN get to your place? What are the benefits?

The National Broadband Network make its way to Brisbane in the second rollout after its installed in the ‘trial town’ of Townsville. The service has been promised to deliver positive improvements for the Australian public in the form of superior access to business and job opportunities, health, education and government services.

Official National Broadband Network Site - http://www.nbn.gov.au/

·       Find out who your local, state and federal representatives are.

In respective order Mayor Ron Clarke, Peter Lawlor and Steven Ciabo are the current local, state and federal representatives for my area.

·        Look up the Queensland or Australian hansard to find the last time your federal member spoke in parliament.

September 15th 2011 was the last time Ciabo spoke to and with the House of Representatives and it was about the crime surge within the Gold Coast region of Moncrieff.