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    Following the news a teenage boy has cracked the government's filtering software in half an hour, the Communications Minister has warned parents to be vigilant about their children's exploits online whether they use filters or not.

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    Prime Minister John Howard last night announced a Coalition plan to clean up Internet porn, in an effort to woo Christian voters.

  • Coonan backs PC-based porn filters

    Communications and IT minister Senator Helen Coonan has attacked Labor's policy of forcing Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to filter Internet content, backing instead PC-based filtering technology.

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