The Victorian State Government’s Liquor Control Reform Amendment Bill 2008 wanted to excuse the Liquor Licensing director from the rules of natural justice. And the Liquor Control Reform Amendment (Enforcement) Bill 2008, which was introduced earlier this month, gives a new occupation of liquor compliance inspectors – whose qualifications are limited to a police check and being of “good repute” – the capacity to execute search warrants on liquor licence holders, unannounced, if they reckon that’s what’s best. Read the rest of this entry »

Just the design of the government’s “Digital Economy Future Directions blog” indicates that there is a fair bit about blogging that the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digitial Economy don’t get. It’s almost impossible to navigate. One post has 50 pages of comments that you have to individually click on to read – there’s no option to view as single page for the comments, or, indeed, for the blog as a whole. In fact, the blog itself has a splash page – all text of course – which managed to confuse a few potential readers when the blog was first launched. Read the rest of this entry »