We’re back, with a brand new epis­ode! From now on we’re aim­ing to release on a bi-weekly basis, even if it means doing slightly shorter and/or less involved episodes.

 

 Epis­ode 6 — Inter­view with a Sen­ator: Play Now | Play in Popup | Down­load

In this epis­ode we talk to Sen­ator Kate Lundy, and her senior policy advisor Pia Waugh (who’s also well known in the Aus­tralian and Inter­na­tional free-and-open-source-software community).

We should note that Sen­ator Lundy’s com­ments about the Clean Feed were made before the report was released and the government’s plan to pro­pose legis­la­tion on the mat­ter announced; she has reviewed her pos­i­tion in response to input from the tech­nical com­munity and you should really read her blog post on the mat­ter! She’s got some very well informed and well con­sidered points put for­ward on this issue.

And a per­sonal apo­logy from me — there’s a few places in this epis­ode where I pro­nounce my ‘p’s into the micro­phone a little too emphat­ic­ally; I’ll try to do bet­ter in the future!

Thanks again to Sen­ator Lundy and Pia Waugh for tak­ing the time to talk to us.

Links:

• Sen­ator Kate Lundy’s Website
• Sen­ator Lundy’s Twit­ter Account
• Pia Waugh’s Website
• Pia Waugh’s Twit­ter Account
• The Gov­Hack website
• John Allsopp’s blog post on the Gov­Hack event
• Mashup Aus­tralia — Some very cool mashup apps to be found here!
• The Gov2.0 Taskforce Website
• Sen. Lundy’s blog post on Pub­lic Sphere #1
• Planet Gov2.0 has some inter­est­ing blog posts on the sub­ject of Gov 2.0 and Open Government
• Palantir Tech did some ana­lysis of the blog posts and tweets on the pub­lic sphere events, which is worth a look
• Sen­ator Stephen Conroy’s website
• No Clean Feed — Protest­ing cen­sor­ship of the Inter­net in Australia
• Sen­ator Lundy’s first post on the Clean Feed after the announcement
• Sen­ator Lundy’s second and very inform­at­ive post on the Clean Feed post-announcement

It’s inter­est­ing to note that a lot of dis­cus­sion on pub­lic sphere happened via twit­ter, and the major­ity of those tweets are now inac­cess­ible.

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Thanks for listen­ing; speak to you again soon!