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Yes, they are. A proposed plan from the Motor Trader's Association for the Australian Government to provide a $3000 voucher towards the purchase of a new car, if you take your vehicle (which is more than 10 years old) to the wreckers.
just like people blame their internet slow down and disconnections on ISPs overselling far beyond their hardware capacity and creating unnecessary network overhead through the use of traffic monitoring/filtering & packet shaping technology?
I'm fairly sure that's much less of a problem here in Australia than in America - off the top of my head, I can't think of any ISP in Australia offering plans without either
a) Shaping after a clearly defined quota
b) Excess Usage charges past a clearly defined quota
If there is, then I doubt it would last for long as everyone flocks to it.
maybe i'm wrong, and Australians are more receptive to the voice of reason than Americans are. but then again, a rational society would not be facing this dilemma, since they wouldn't put anyone in power who'd even be considering this kind of nationwide internet censorship.
It was more a choice of who did we want less - the ones who were bent of destroying the rights of workers, or the ones who were going to get rid of the legislation that was destroying those rights.
Hopefully, the senate will modify the law to be sane (that is, mandating that all ISPs have the ability to provide clean feeds service to those who want it, and let everyone else have their Internet as usual). Unfortunately, given the senate's track record since the changeover, I don't think it's likely without enormous public pressure.
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