The Coalition is committed to providing families in Wannon with resources that will help them protect their children from online dangers and bullying.
MEDIA RELEASE
11 August 2010
REAL ACTION TO PROTECT FAMILIES ONLINE
As a parent I know that protecting our children’s safety online is a priority.
The Coalition is committed to providing families in Wannon with resources that will help them protect their children from online dangers and bullying.
We will provide $60 million for free, quality internet filtering technology to all families.
The Coalition will empower principals so they can stop bullying in their schools and introduce a new national education campaign to tackle bullying and cyber bullying.
$10.5 million over four years will be provided to address the well founded concerns parents have about the use of new social media sites.
A Ministerial Committee on Social Networking will also be established so that companies providing sites like Facebook and Twitter work with government to limit the harm that inappropriate use of Social Networking can cause.
The Coalition will commit $30 million to extend and expand the successful community Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) Cyber-Safety outreach programmes which are currently booked out six months in advance.
This comprehensive package of measures will ensure parents in Wannon can protect their children from online threats and dangers.
The previous Coalition Government made the important first step and provided parents with free PC-based content filters so that parents could help protect their children from exposure to dangerous and inappropriate material on the internet.
Labor cancelled this effective, free PC-based filter and has done nothing to provide families with any other alternative.
Before the 2007 election, Labor promised to introduce a mandatory Internet Service Provider (ISP) - level filter that would cover ‘any content that has been identified as prohibited by ACMA’. Yet after three years Labor has failed to deliver, and has now announced a further two year delay, highlighting the practical problems with its plan.
ENDS Contact Dan Tehan: 0400 376 635
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