Task 4

Some Laws

1. Australian web sites require a privacy policy for the use of personal information (there are some exemptions for small organisations)
2. Australian sites can't include pornography or other material such as bestiality.
3. There are accessability rules to aid people use web sites, such as the use of resizable text for those who have bad eyesight.

http://www.port80.asn.au - Australian Web Developer's Assocation

Under Australian discrimination law inaccessible websites can be fined.

This is a link to a news item from HREOC - http://www.hreoc.gov.au/media_releases/2002/72_02.html

These are the disability discrimination act advisory notes from the Human Rights website http://www.hreoc.gov.au/disability_rights/standards/www_3/www_3.html

Other sites of interest

http://www.ilaw.com.au/public/ispspaper.html

http://www.ilaw.com.au/public/index.html

http://www.law.gov.au/accesspoint?action=menuHome

http://www.aph.gov.au/library/intguide/law/index.htm

and

http://www.comlaw.gov.au/ have authoritiative sources on Australian federal law. Much of what you want is under Media and Communications.

http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/law.html also

http://www.slp.wa.gov.au/statutes/swans.nsf has state law for WA.