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Breaking news: on ABC News 24 right now Abbott just said he doesn't support a filter and got the policy wrong.

"We had no intention of accidentally releasing this policy decision so close to an election. We will correct the version online immediately with our temporary watered down version until we've won."

great.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-05/no-internet-filter-say...

"The correct position is that the Coalition will encourage mobile phone and internet service providers to make available software which parents can choose to install on their own devices to protect their children from inappropriate material."

=== Sounds more reasonable if accurate.

It's indeed VERY different to "opt-out" as they had stated. What a mistake!

"Mistake". It was likely just testing the waters.

That's actually the policy they had when they were last in government. It had very low takeup.

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