After citing Swedish law and publicly threatening Stephen Conroy with legal action if he tried to discover Wikileaks’ source for the ACMA blacklist leak yesterday, Wikileaks thrown down the gauntlet by releasing the March 18th, 2009 official ACMA blacklist.

There have been some major amendments to the list, presumably in response to Wikileaks’ previous leak earlier this week, they note;

Between the 11th and yesterday, the company did an enormous cleanup of the list. No doubt as a result of the list appearing on Wikileaks.

Where the list previously contained over 2000 urls, and Conroy and the ACMA claimed “See! Our ‘current list’ never contained that many urls”, this new list is about the size th ey ACMA claimed it to be. ACMA/Conroy in a media release stated that there were 1061 URLs for August 6, 2008. The 18 Mar 2009 list, having apparently being cleaned up, now contains 1172.

Also worth noting is that this new list contains “the abortion page” and the Danish Wikileaks blacklist page, which were both confirmed in the Australian press as being prohibited by the ACMA.


Youtube, PartyPoker, Wikileaks, an anonymous redirect service, Rapidshare, Abbywinters, Wikipedia, several other .AU adult sites, www.ballroomdancing.com.au and practically all major online poker sites make the list.

Last time Wikileaks went down due to traffic overload so I’m pre-emptively hosting it locally this time.

With the release of this latest leak it appears the ACMA blacklist can be reverse engineered and published on whim. I have absolutely no doubt that should they go ahead with the mandatory filter on an ISP level the same will occur.

It would appear Conroy and the ACMA are the dual captains of a fast sinking ship here.

1. ACMA Blacklist has been leaked!
2. Wikileaks' Theodor Reppe Raided: The government crackdown begins
3. Conroy can't guarantee only child porn will be filtered
4. ACMA: Linking to blacklisted sites will cost you $11,000 a day.
5. Stephen Conroy admits internet filter is useless