Contents - 13 Oct 2007 EDITORIAL: China the key to Burma crisis - Peter Westmore HUMAN RIGHTS: Christian freedoms under attack - Mark Mullins CANBERRA OBSERVED: Election outcome will shape Australia's future DRUGS: Parliamentary report's tough stance on illicit drugs - Bill Muehlenberg TERRORISM: After APEC: security review urgently needed - John Miller SCHOOLS: What price should we pay for progressive education? - Dr Mark Lopez LIFE ISSUES: Abortion - women's choice or coercion? - Charles Francis QC OPINION: Doctor sued over unplanned second child - Tim Cannon COMPETITION: Coalition strengthens Trade Practices Act - Patrick J. Byrne INTERNET-FILTERING: YouTube launch of AFA election brochure RURAL AFFAIRS: Farmers protest as water crisis deepens CINEMA: Australia's seamy underside laid bare - The Jammed - Anthony Barich (reviewer) AS THE WORLD TURNS How to reward teachers in special schools? (letter) - Chris Backstrom That Swedish film again (letter) - Len Phillips Proving his manhood? (letter) - Frank Bellet Peter Keogh remembered (letter) - Geoff Hicks BOOKS: DELUDED BY DAWKINS? A Christian Response to The God Delusion, by Andrew Wilson - Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer) BOOKS: THE DANGEROUS BOOK FOR BOYS: Australian Edition, by Conn and Hal Iggulden - Bill James (reviewer) News Weekly Books

The Australian Family Association has launched an election brochure, Making the Internet Safe.

A new Australian Family Association election brochure, Making the Internet Safe, calls on the Coalition and the Labor Party to utilise available advanced technology to create and effective filtering system (available at www.family.org.au).

The AFA has highlighted the ineffectiveness of the Government's home filters with a remake of the Government's television advertisement, and put it on YouTube at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=BRIi711Pox0

The AFA argues for a far more comprehensive filtering system based on expanding the blacklist compiled by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) of sites to be filtered.

Advanced filtering technologies are already being used by large institutions to build internal blacklists for their networks. The NSW Department of Education is filtering over one million computers and automatically building an extensive internal blacklist.

The AFA wants the Government to look seriously at obtaining these lists commercially to expand the ACMA blacklist, then to be supplied to internet service-providers (ISPs) for filtering illegal and objectionable content.
 
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