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Labor emerges as IT policy favourite By Cass Warneminde, ZDNet Australia November 07, 2001 URL: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/Labor-emerges-as-IT-policy-favourite/0,130061791,120261723,00.htm
With just a few days remaining until the Federal poll, the Labor party has emerged as the clear winner in the IT policy stakes following an online survey. More than 1300 responses were received during a ZDNet Australia poll asking readers which party they believed had the most sound IT policy. Of these responses, 32 percent gave the nod to Labor, whose IT strategy revolves around a mixture of support for communications infrastructure, education, local industry and, of course, keeping the remainder of Telstra in public hands. The Democrats, meanwhile, came a close second after receiving 29 percent of the vote for its grand vision of a local IT industry assisted by tax breaks for R&D investment, ramped-up IT education and promises of broad legislative support for the Australian ITC sector. The Liberal Party appears not to have convinced poll respondents with claims that it won't sell-off the remaining 51 percent of Telstra until rural service standards are raised, gaining just 25 percent of the responses. This result comes despite several expensive promises geared towards unlimited call access to the Net and a boost in funding for e-government initiatives. Although a relatively new entrant to the Australian political landscape, One Nation, managed to garner 12 percent of the vote with a scheme to make Australia Post outlets agents for broadband facilitation and repeated proclamations that Australia's IT shortcomings are a result of the country being -broke".
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