Lindsay Tanner
Vic Federal
Member of the House of Reps
Australian Labor Party
Electorate: Melbourne
Spoke about internet filtering at a federal parliamentary forum in Canberra in August 2005 hosted by the Religious Right Fatherhood Foundation.
Quoted from:
Porn filtering back on agenda. The
Australian 11.10.05
Mr Tanner sparked Labor's brief flirtation with
filtering just prior to the election campaign.
That was firmly squashed by then-IT spokesman Kate Lundy, but The
Australian understands some MPs support filtering.
Some social issues led to unusual coalitions of interest, Mr Tanner said.
"There are points of commonality across the political spectrum about
values, and about the rampant individualism that has taken over in Western
society," Mr Tanner said.
"That is a hyper-individualistic kind of view."
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Media Statement - 21st June 2006
Government Not Serious On Internet Porn
Today’s announcement by Senator Coonan that the Government will provide free Internet porn filters is yet another effort to avoid the issue.
Only months ago the Government was claiming that no further action was required to tackle the widespread exposure, both deliberate and accidental, of children to the most extreme pornography imaginable on the Internet.
Under pressure from Labor’s commitment to require Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to filter out the pornography at source, the Government now proposes to force taxpayers to pay for a scattergun solution which will be partially effective at best.
The only way to deal effectively with this problem is to tackle it at its source. Many families will not even know about the Government’s subsidy, let alone use it. Recent research shows that a very large proportion of children are accessing extreme pornography on the Internet. Labor’s approach is already in place and operating in the United Kingdom, through British Telecom.
Instead of trying to look like it’s doing something, the Government should tackle the problem directly. Make ISPs responsible for filtering out extreme pornography, and protect Australian kids.
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He had this to say about Channel 10's decision to drop BIG BROTHER: ADULTS ONLY in June 2006.
Quoted from:
It's Big Brother Cut. Herald Sun 24.06.06
Labor's acting communication spokesman, Lindsay Tanner, said complaints about TV shows had trebled in the past year, but ACMA did not have the power to act.
"Both Labor and ACMA have been calling for stronger enforcement powers for over 18 months," he said.
"TV networks have been routinely breaching the code of conduct, it's about time ACMA had adequate powers to police the code."
Carmel Tebbut
NSW State
Member of the Legislative Assembly
Australian Labor Party Electorate: Marrickville
In August 2006 the Classification Board rated the game BULLY as M (‘Moderate Themes, Violence, Sexual References’). In September, Ms Tebbutt called for the rating to be reviewed.
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Quoted from:
Bullying
is no game. Daily Telegraph 20.09.06
Education Minister Carmel Tebbutt bought into the issue yesterday, saying "violence is never the answer to bullying".
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Quoted from:
Violent video game
raises concerns. NineMSN 20.09.06
NSW Education Minister Carmel Tebbutt will ask the federal government to review the "M" classification given to a video game called Bully. "I'll be writing to the federal attorney-general just to see whether there's further action that can be taken," Ms Tebbutt told reporters.
"I also want him to assure me that everything that needs to be taken into account has been taken into account in this classification process."
Ms Tebbutt urged parents to prevent their children from being exposed to the game.
"I'm concerned that its message for violence is undermining what we're doing in schools to counteract bullying," she said.