I'm using TPG and I can confirm access to www.globalcapitalwealth.com is still working so I'd say "believed to be major telco TPG" is quite... um... believable.

I'm using TPG and I can confirm access to www.globalcapitalwealth.com is still working so I'd say "believed to be major telco TPG" is quite... um... believable. www.globalcapitalaustralia.com is going to the GoDaddy holding page so I'd say they're in the process of packing up shop. I'm frankly disgusted at the underhandedness of Conroy. He has previously pushed completely unfeasible schemes aiming at mandatory filtering. He caved on this due to huge public backlash, so he just re-interprets section 313 of the telco act to give the AFP the power, if not the obligation, to bully Australian ISPs into mandatory filtering anyway. The main differences now are that he gets to do it quietly, possibly without the public backlash, and secondly, that the cost for the extra infrastructure and personnel required to implement it is now the sole burden of the ISPs, and not the Australian taxpayer. Unfortunately, with the current state of Australian politics, this mob are still probably the best choice going. The Greens (although I usually vote for them, idealist that I am) really don't have any chance this election, and the Liberals [1], except to say that they'd cut the investment in the National Broadband Network, aren't even providing their usual hodge-podge of regurgitated conservatism; They're happy watching Julia Gillard lose the election on her own merits. The two Liberal party members to keep an eye on here are Tony Abbott [2], and Malcolm Turnbull [3]. They, between them, have the power to either lose or win (in that order) this election for the Liberal party. So, we in Australia, like many in the USA, are discovering that the more "progressive" party is just as likely to engage in shady behaviour as their "conservative" counterparts, but have more to lose when they're found out. This reminds me of something I read recently [4] where it was stated that trust is bi-directional. The more a government stops trusting the people it's mandated to represent, the more those same people, in turn, stop trusting their elected government. Wow, sorry, I seem to have gone off on a tangential rant there... Anyway, not happy at all. [1] for the benefit of non-Australian readers, the capital 'L' should be interpreted as a negator. They are anything but 'liberal'. [2] Party leader, and historically likely to lose this election with a single misplaced misogynistic comment. [3] A chameleon, finger on the pulse and willing to flip with the public opinion of his constituents... Technically a good trait in a politician, but most of his constituents are rich conservatives [4] might have been in Bruce Schneier's Liars and Outliers, brilliant book.