Political Participation Via the Internet

1. Sign an e-petition: I signed an e-petition on a new law against racism, so every person receives respect (http://alagarac.epetitions.net/).

2. Respond to a professional blogger at a major news site: I responded to an article on the Courier Mail website about 'Dead koalas delivered to Parliament'. I left a comment saying, "I do believe Koalas should be saved but putting dead koalas outside parliament is a bit too far."

3. What is Barak Obama up to today? I went straight to twitter for this, his last twittered comment was..feeling fired up and ready to go on health insurance reform (http://twitter.com/BARACKOBAMA)

4.Find out who your local, state and federal representatives are: Local: Grace Grace, State: Anna Bligh, Federal: Kevin Rudd (http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/view/legislativeAssembly/members_current.asp).

5.Look up the Queensland or Australian hansard to find the last time your local member spoke in parliament: Thursday 17 September 2009 (http://parlinfo.parliament.qld.gov.au/isysquery/069d3944-d5bf-4a79-a49e-35be95c97799/21-24/list/).

6.Let your local member know what you think about their last speech: I emailed her a quick summary of her speech on opening the Windsor School of Arts. (Brisbane.Central@parliament.qld.gov.au).