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Security & Privacy
Tracking how data-handling and cybersecurity rules affect the people who have to live inside them, not just the organisations that write them.
ISOC‑AU · Australian chapter · est. 1996
We are the
end‑user's
seat at the
table.
The Internet Society of Australia is the local chapter of the global Internet Society — non-profit home of the engineers who keep the internet's core standards running. Since 1996 we've carried the interests of everyday users, businesses, academics and technologists into the rooms where Australia's internet policy gets decided.
- Hop 01Security & Privacy
- Hop 02Social & Legal Issues
- Hop 03Education
- Hop 04Infrastructure
- Hop 05Liaison
- Hop 06Policy & Communication
- Hop 07Administration
01 · What we work on
Seven working areas, one end‑user brief
Every submission, briefing and working group seat we take traces back to one of these areas. None of them are abstract — each maps to a place where ordinary people run into the internet's rules.
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Social & Legal Issues
Weighing in where internet regulation brushes up against speech, access and consumer protection for everyday Australians.
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Education
Helping members and the public understand how the internet actually works, so policy debates start from technical fact rather than folklore.
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Infrastructure
Following the health of the networks, addressing and naming systems that Australia's internet depends on day to day.
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Liaison
Staying connected to the global Internet Society, the IETF and sibling chapters, so Australian input reaches international standards work.
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Policy & Communication
Drafting submissions and public statements in language regulators, media and members can all actually use.
02 · From the record
Recent statements & submissions
A running account of where ISOC-AU has put its name to something — the format changes, the standard doesn't.
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Submission
On proportionate rules for internet infrastructure
A response arguing that obligations aimed at large platforms shouldn't quietly fall on the small networks and community providers that keep regional Australia connected.
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Statement
On plain-language digital rights
A public note restating that privacy and security protections only work if the people they're meant to protect can actually read them.
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Briefing
On naming and addressing governance
A members' briefing on why decisions made in obscure technical bodies still end up shaping what an ordinary Australian can register, host or reach.
03 · Governance
We publish our own homework
ISOC-AU runs on member consent, not assumed authority. Annual general meetings, published minutes, annual reports and audited financials are how a membership organisation keeps itself honest — and how members hold the committee to the same standard it asks of everyone else.
See our governance record1996Chapter founded
AGMHeld annually, minutes published
2Membership classes: individual & organisational
Bring the end‑user's voice into the room
Membership is open to individuals and organisations who want internet policy shaped with users in mind, not just infrastructure and industry. No technical background required — just an interest in how the internet is governed.
See membership options