Censor dummy spit..?

So, on my usual morning routine of checking Australian online newspapers, I was met with sever DNS errors, which generally means that these sites are blocked.

Intrigued, as I may have thought that a few more satellites may have disappeared from the sky, or Australia signed a treaty recognising an island floating in the South China Sea as a fully-fledged nation, I jumped onto an anonymous proxy to check out the salubrious details.

I couldn't find anything juicy. Only one article seemed to fit my well-trained China news eye but I wouldn't really call the below article salubrious enough to warrant blocking.

The SMH: An end to Shanghai's spitting image.

The story about Shanghai's taxi drivers receiving onboard spitoons isn't really breaking news, however for those on Antipodean shores I am familiar with, it is.

Access appears to have been restored for me, but I just wonder why it access to such sites was blocked this morning in the first place?