I'm curious. Curious because when the federal government dishes out AU$189 million to "protect our children" from the bad ol' Internet, it smells of electioneering. Curious because when ZDNet ...

Australia's highest-trafficked Web site, ninemsn, today announced a partnership with the Internet education and safety advisory body, NetAlert, to address online child safety issues. The move follows ...

Industry representatives today questioned the Labor Government's 2008 decision to axe a $84.8 million home internet content filtering program set up by the former Howard Government. Launched in August ...

Federal Minister for Finance and Deregulation, Senator Lindsay Tanner told the National Press Club in Canberra that Labor inherited a problem from the former Liberal Government. Cuts to technology ...

The federal government will look into enforcing the registering of sex offenders' email addresses and web pages as part of its $189 million NetAlert program. The program provides families with free ...

To follow on from Wednesday’s tip about the national internet safety hotline NetAlert please allow me to confirm that yes, it really has been pretty quiet here at safety central. It is my fourth day ...

The Government will create a National Filter Scheme to provide every Australian family with a free Internet filter as part of a $116.6 million comprehensive package of measures to crack down on the ...

The NetAlert booklet has landed in my letterbox. So the Government has decided (strange, just before an election…) that it’s about time we started protecting our children. Clearly they don’t feel that ...