This is interesting. I was reading the story in the Age this morning about the Liberal policy (now I guess government policy) to establish transit centres for asylum seekers so they don't even get to Christmas Island. I hadn't heard anything about this one, but it's evidently once again got the Indonesians offside. So I went to find the policy. Search search. Ah, there it is. The obligatory anti-Labor stuff opens on the page, but there is a link to the actual policy included. I hovered on it and guess what: they're storing their policies in Amazon!
http://lpaweb-static.s3.amazonaws.com/13-08-23%20The%20Coalition%E2%80%99s%20Policy%20for%20a%20Regional%20Deterrence%20Framework%20to%20Combat%20People%20Smuggling.pdf Is this a sign of things to come? Is this evidence of a deal done already with this commercial outfit for storage of what will be government information in off-shore storage instead of on-shore? Note it's not an https address either (I used an https by editing the link and it did work). What information about accesses will be collected through this arrangement? Will my IP address be tagged for example? Any other metadata? Would the government know what is going on in the Amazon storage at all? Would they be smart enough to even ask the questions? Is anyone aware of what is going on in the transition for information handling by govt agencies? Jan PS: after reading the "policy" (sic), it doesn't make much sense, but it explains the references to leasing commercial boats: "a fleet of fast transfer vessels could be (note - could be) commercially leased (commercially?) to take asylum seekers directly from SIEV to the nearest authorised transit port (no indication where these might be, presumably Indonesia, but the policy doesn't say) for charter air transfer (more $$$) directly to Manus or Nauru for processing of their asylum claims." I had to type all that because the PDF document is restricted from direct copying. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [email protected] Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space. ~Margaret Atwood, writer _ __________________ _ _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
