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	<description>Colin Jacobs in, on and about the Internet</description>
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		<title>Is the NBN value for money?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2014 12:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today the Abbot government released their cost-benefit analysis of the NBN and their own, mixed-technology model. Not surprisingly (for a report commissioned by the Government), the analysis finds that the Coalition&#8217;s fibre-to-the-node NBN is more cost-effective than Labor&#8217;s fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) model. The case for FTTP isn&#8217;t good, according to this document. The mixed-technology model comes out $16b [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Value for NBN Money</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 05:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last few days I&#8217;ve found myself agreeing with Stephen Conroy again &#8211; always an unsettling experience. This time it was over the Economist Intelligence Unit&#8217;s recent ranking of Government broadband policies. They are pretty biased towards free market solutions, and so a massive government intervention like the NBN is unlikely to get top [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>R-18+ Games on their way?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 02:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few days I&#8217;ve been dealing with a flurry of media on the (missing) R-18+ games category, and I&#8217;m just catching my breath. The news on this front is that the Commonwealth government has come out strongly for amending the national classification code to allow R-18+ games. They released research which shows  that [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Who will guard our privacy online?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I&#8217;ve spent a good deal of my time thinking, reading and talking about online privacy. As Facebook and the rest of the social media set become more of a fixture in our lives, the public&#8217;s concern about privacy issues have become increasingly pronounced. Every Facebook incident seems to get widespread media coverage. We&#8217;ve also [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Pick a team and play</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 07:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I had an op-ed in the National Times (Fairfax) about grassroots participation in party politics. It&#8217;s been a long time since politics was a genuine mass movement. That&#8217;s not good for the country. Here I do my bit to encourage people to think about giving it a go. Take a look here.]]></description>
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		<title>Doom for the filter?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The biggest news for the filter in a while with Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey choosing JJJ&#8217;s Hack program to announce that the Coalition will not back the Conroy Curtain whether or not they win government. Due to the makeup of the Senate (both before and in all probability after the election) this might mean the policy is [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I joined the Greens</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 02:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As some of those close to me will know, I have recently resigned my membership in the ALP and joined the Greens. Although it might seem a sudden move to some, it has been a long time coming and was not an easy decision or one taken lightly. I&#8217;m still new to the party, but [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Question Time Cameo</title>
		<link>/2010/politics/question-time-cameo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The campaign against mandatory internet filtering, which any loyal reader will know has consumed a good portion of my life these last few years, has heated up in recent days in exciting ways. Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontieres, RSF), after writing an open letter to Kevin Rudd late last year, last week added Australia [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Internet racism a symptom, not a cause</title>
		<link>/2010/politics/internet-racism-a-symptom-not-a-cause/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colin]]></dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=267</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a politician, and something nasty is brought to your attention, what do you do? The best and sometimes only tool in your toolbox is the one you reach for. The tool is this: to pass a law banning it. Therefore, although it&#8217;s always discouraging, a story like this one, is far from unusual or surprising. &#8220;Laws to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Missing Party</title>
		<link>/2010/politics/the-missing-party/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stilgherrian has been covering the iiNet trial for Crikey (good job, Stil), and wrote yesterday about Conroy&#8217;s rather worrying remarks on the subject indicating that the ISPs and entertainment industry should get together and sort out a way to solve this problem. This makes some sense if the two parties get together and and discuss a new [&#8230;]]]></description>
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