Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Wednesday expressed confidence that Communications Minister and Senator Stephen Conroy will come up with a new web filter legislation acceptable to ISPs and Internet freedom advocates.

"Clearly you can't walk into a cinema in Australia and see certain things and we shouldn't on the internet be able to access those things either so Stephen Conroy is working to get this in the right shape," The Australian quoted Gillard as telling ABC radio.

Conroy said consultation talks are being conducted with ISPs focusing on the transparency and accountability for illegal content or so-called refused classification-rated (RC) content.

The senator expects to introduce the new legislation this year. "I expect it (the legislation) to be this year. I expect that we will table the legislation this year sooner rather than later," he said, according to The Australian.

Conroy's latest filtering scheme proposed the creation of a list of RC web pages that ISPs will automatically block.

A web filtering legislation w

as mooted in 2007 and introduction of the latest proposal was postponed by former prime minister Kevin Rudd until the next election.