Sign an e-petition.
As I mentioned in class, I
went online and signed an e-petition to request the House of the Legislative
Assembly of Queensland to introduce legislation for putting a ban on single use
light weight plastic bags at all retail shops in Queensland by the end of 2012.
E-petition site:
Respond to a professional blogger at a major news site.
I responded to Mayor Tom Tate’s blog. I’ll be honest, I’m not big into politics, and being I’m
from America and have little knowledge of Australian politics, I just told the
Mayor to keep up the good work.
What is Barak Obama up to today? Can you contact him? I figured the best way to see what Obama was up to on a more personal level was to read his most recent tweets. He tweeted a lot about his new campaign efforts and used twitter as a way of spreading the word. I cannot directly contact Obama. Although his websites include forms that can be filled out and sent in, it’s still not him who reads the questions or concerns. There is a long line of people the forms has to get through before it would ever reach the president, which is highly unlikely!
What are the Australian Government's plans to censor the Internet
(the so-called "Clean Feed")?
Upon researching the term “Clean Feed,” I found that the government’s
“Clean Feed” filter is its efforts to filter out sites that lack registered URLs,
which significantly reduces the potential for illegal sites.
What place does censorship have in
a democracy?
Censorship in democracy is a very controversial issue. While freedom of speech is the essence
of democracy, there are still some things that just can’t be said or posted on
the Internet. Not censoring highly
graphic or vulgar posts may then be beaching other freedoms, like robbing a
child of his or her innocence.
When will the NBN get to your
place? What are the benefits?
The NBN provides speeds 100 times
faster than the current average speed.
According to the official NBN website for my area, the NBN will get to
my place by December 2013.
Find out who your local, state and federal representatives are.
Send one a message.
Local Representative: Cameron Caldwell
State Representative: Michael Crandon (I sent him a
message.)
Federal representative: Stuart Robert.
Look up the Queensland or Australian Hansard to find the last
time your local member spoke in parliament.
Michael Crandon spoke in parliament on August 23, 2012.
Reference: Michael Crandon, Public Service and other
legislation amendment bill, 23rd August, 2012.
http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au, Accessed 2/9/12
Let your local member know what you
think about their last speech.
I found that the easiest way to contact Crandon was to visit his personal website. Again, I have found this specific tutorial to be harder than the rest because I don’t know much about Australian politics. From what I read on his Twitter page though, he seems to be a strong communicator, so I told him to keep up the good work on his speeches.
I found that the easiest way to contact Crandon was to visit his personal website. Again, I have found this specific tutorial to be harder than the rest because I don’t know much about Australian politics. From what I read on his Twitter page though, he seems to be a strong communicator, so I told him to keep up the good work on his speeches.
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