As seems to be proven by the response of the incumbent, whom I voted for, to the lobbying of the NSW government by the NSW National Parks Association (NPA), whose email address was blacklisted by the office of the NSW Premier, Morris Iemma, for some unexplained reason, after emails highlighted the weakened state of the state's environmental ministry.
A form on the NPA website had allowed people to easily write to Mr Iemma, 20 of his Cabinet Ministers, five Independents and four Green parliamentary members, supporting the NPA's position on administrative changes to the environment ministry. The sopheads decided it was spam.
Well that is just not on. :::[SMH]
"I urge you to resist making changes to the recently strengthened environment ministry," a line of the generic letter template read.
But after receiving 1700 messages sent using the form in two days, the Government wrote an email to Mr Cox accusing him of breaking the law. "The pattern and content of these email constitutes SPAM under the Commonwealth SPAM act of 2003. Please investigate and take action to prevent further spam from these addresses."
Mr Hughes told Mr Cox that if the emails did not cease, "we will be required to report this behaviour to the relevant authorities".
All emails sent by the NPA to the Premier's office and his ministers are now being blocked.
However, it appears Mr Hughes has misinterpreted the Spam Act, which only applies to "commercial electronic messages". The NPA is a non-profit organisation.
Further, Section 44 of the legislation reads: "This Act does not apply to the extent (if any) that it would infringe any constitutional doctrine of implied freedom of political communication."
Just because you guys had no competition come election time, doesn't mean we have to take this lying down.
Global Warning Climate Change Environment
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