Australian_Politics

OzPoliCon is Australia's annual conference for online activists and political bloggers, vloggers and anyone that uses the Internet for campaigning purposes. The conference encourages collaboration and sharing different ideas, experiences and perspectives about online activism, its trends and future directions. It also delves into strategies and techniques for online campaigning. Unlike a lot of other conferences this one is different in that it is you the politicos (ie political bloggers, vloggers and online activists and operatives) that help shape the conference agenda and speakers.

The talking head video is boring and I almost feel as though I'm signing up to be recruited for the next Kevin 4 PM campaign.

Önce Yargıtay mağduruyduk, Yargıtay 3167 sayılı çek kanunu'nun uygulanamaz olduğunu görmezden geldi, sonra AKP tarafından 5941 sayılı çek kanunu daha ağırlaştırılmış olarak çıktı, umutlarımız Anayasa Mahkemesindeydi ve oradan bir karar çıkmış değil, zaman ise tükenmek üzere.

Describers 5 great tools for activists that have been created by other activists. They are pretty good tools and a few of them particularly speak to concerns about online identity and ensuring that friends are actually friends.

A very good piece about the uses of mobile technologies for activism.

There are things in this that I've also been thinking about but hadn't picked up on using it for pointing to pickets. Although I've been thinking about it's use to identify popular meeting points as ways of identifying places for meetings or rally points; or favourite destinations to identify possible prizes for competitions to increase supporters' engagement in campaigns. Thoughts?

Political lobby group GetUp! has shared insights into how email, social media and SMS were crucial to the success of its recent election campaign

The article outlines how the Liberal Party of Australia, through the Conservative Leadership Foundation, has established an online campaigning network. It outlines the purpose behind it.

Well, that's the apology to the stolen generations over and done with, we now return you to your normal viewing; re-runs of the Howard Years.

Well hopefully these kinds of reports will prompt the new Rudd Government into doing something about recognising torture and criminalizing it. To do otherwise would only illustrate the new government has no wish to respect Australians' human rights.

Details of the committee as well as details of the proposed carbon price mechanism.

Movements.org is a non-profit organization dedicated to identifying, connecting, and supporting grassroots digital activists from around the world.

Crabgrass is a software libre web application designed for social networking, group collaboration and network organizing. Our goal is to create communication tools that are tailored specifically to meet the needs of bottom up grassroots organizing.

It's a longish piece about the Liberal Party's attacks on the minority government and the media's willingness to pick up and report these attacks as meaningful news.

Amazing the Nats have sided with the Greens. There are smarter ways of cutting greenhouse gas emissions.