If you’re in Australia, and you receive a lot of telemaraketing cold-calls to your home or mobile number, then help is at hand. The Austrlian Communications and Media Authority have set up a Do Not Call Register where you have the option to register your number on a database which prevents telemarketers from calling you. If they do call (any time from 30 days after you register) the company in question is in breach of the law and may be prosecuted. I think