Interesting, I would have thought the ONE country that would allow the people to sue the government would be the US. You know land of the free and all that... Suing the government happens here in Australia and the UK all the time. In fact there is a great movie about it, The Castle.

There are no software patents in Australia, which is where the trial is being held. This is about a copyright and contract agreements with a dash of defamation.

It is a confusing vote, but from the homepage of votewatch.eu :

I think a better translation would be "Looking silly" or maybe "looking like a clown". Very appropriate.

And another article to support your health concerns.

Actually you mean preferential voting if you are voting for a single representative. Proportional voting only works if you are voting for more than one position. That is, the single representative can only be 100%, but if there is a council of say 10 people, then you can use the proportional or STV system that you linked to.

Seems to be a trend. Parks Victoria is attempting to charge photographers for taking photos of state parks. I wonder if you could counter with a fraud charge?

Flashing Norwegians? Pics or it didn't happen.

They are acquiring access. That is, renting access to the "fit-for-use" pits and ducts from Telstra. I hope that this is only a mistake in the reporting, but perhaps there is a buy option at the end of the lease. http://www.commsday.com/commsday/?p=1134

I think that there is a "fit-for-use" clause. I noticed it in one of the briefings. Of course, migrating to fibre means that these problems should no longer be problems.

Except the tax is clearly printed on every receipt.

Selling something at the advertised price is great for consumers. In fact, there has been a recent ruling that restaurants can't put a hidden surcharge on for holidays. If they want to charge more, they have to print other menus.

I suspect that you won't. You have an overly broad definition of patent troll to include a research organization that found a revolutionary way of dealing with a complicated problem in wireless communications. This solution allowed WiFi and other wireless technologies to become popular and useful. I think that it is up to you to document why you feel that CSIRO isn't doing research and merely trolling patents.

Here is a brief summary and timeline of the development of the patent.

So you think they have stopped doing research? I've read that they allocated a large part of the settlement as an ongoing research fund.

I'm getting the impression that you feel anybody that has a patent and enforces it is a patent troll. Is that what you mean by broader "troll" definition? Your website defines it as a company that acquires patents simply to demand royalties. I would think that is the idea of patents in general though isn't it? You patent something to make money from it. Perhaps you need to tighten your definition a little bit.