Reading SMH it looks like we will join those enlightened societies- Burma,China, Cuba,Iran,Eqypt,Syria,Uzbekistan just to name a few. What a laughing stock we will become. The filter is also dangerous in that this will be a sginificant breakaway of government from the people and will start a process of erosion of trust in the governement of Australia. To a certain extent this began under John Howard , Kevin Rudd is another little Johhny Howard in this respect. I have already started taking measures to circumvent. If you use Firefox get an extension called FoxyProxy . You can also go to service such as http://emailthru.com/ type in the URL . Google proxy servers and you will find a stack. The Censorship war has begun!