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The Online Services Branch of Australia's Department of Finance, which oversees the nation's online efforts, has put the country in beta with the release of a new design for the national website at australia.gov.au. The new look is said to be the result of “user analysis and … benchmarking with other government agencies both …

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  1. -tim
    Alert

    Any data leaks here yet?

    Most of the time when I see a red bar on the top of a web site, it means some lazy developer has added javascript to send my data off to a server far away to harass me about updating my browser. An example of this is the Public Transport Victoria web site which currently sends all your travel plans to a nice web site in Germany which can pop up a red bar asking you to update newer browser.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Beta?

    I rather thought that with its worn down mountains, lack of tectonic activity, running out water and Archaean (3.8Gy) geology, Australia was well past beta and more into EOL, and last orders please gentlemen.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    Anonymized for your entertainment

    ga('create', 'UA-51018447-1', 'australia.gov.au');

    ga('send', 'pageview');

    ga('set', 'anonymizeIp', true);

    Yup.

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  4. Snivelling Wretch
    Headmaster

    "Ping" an email? Grrr...

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  5. Tac Eht Xilef

    Two-step guide for improving your departmental website

    1) Look at www.acma.gov.au

    2) Don't copy that.

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