WEEK 8 - Internet Opportunities for Political Participation

This week task to find what opportunties can be found

via the internet for POLITICAL PARTICIPATION while sticking to my own political vi

Question 1 - Sign a e-petition

Signed for to support - Stop mining on the Steve Irwin

Wildlife Reserve
http://greensmps.org.au/content/tv/light-rail-e-petition

Question 2 - Respond to a professional Blog

Question 3- What Barack Obama doing today?

Twitter has let me down on letting me no what Mr Obama is doing today. I will keep researching.The last thing on his TWITTER was that he was pushing the citizen to help pass the health reform!! he is an amzing man by my opinion..

GO BARACK!!!

Question 4 - Government Representaives

Federal Representatives -
Boswell, the Hon Ronald - Senator for Queensland
Boyce, Sue - Senator for Queensland
Brandis, the Hon George - Senator for Queensland

State Represenatatives - Memebers of the state there are many i think this was hard but possibly one of the many in this link - http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/view/legislativeAssembly/members.asp?area=members&LIndex=1&Subarea=members

Local Representatvies -
Greg Betts
Ron Clarke

Question 5 - Last time Local memeber spoke in Parliament.

Gold coast Mayor Ron Clarke last spoke on the 15th Septemeber 09, discussing the unfair choices the community has on supermarket choices due to the high price on discount market like ALDI.

Question 6 -

Lets start firstly by defining eDemocracy - By eDemocracy we mean the internet's intervention in and contribution to real world politics that exists predominantly off the internet. eDemocracy covers everything from political campaigning on the internet and the government's use of the internet to raise awareness and debate on issues to the people's use of new technologies to criticise governments and reveal their mistakes. (Stephan Stockwell)

Read the lecture and the readings, pursue a couple of the topics that you find most interesting and then post your blog with your well-considered thoughts about the theory and practice of politics.+ we ask:What do you think of the Australian Government's plans to censor the internet (the so-called "Clean Feed")???What place does censorship have in a democracy?