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  • Health Minister backs smart card

    A smart card for health services will provide basic medical information to help in an emergency, Health Minister Tony Abbott says.

  • Health IT project a headache: AMA

    One of the government's key technology projects for the health sector has "major problems" and neglects the concerns of Australian doctors, an industry body has warned.

  • Feds review ICT skilled migration list to bolster local jobs

    The Federal Government is reviewing the Migration Occupations in Demand List for ICT workers, which could mean fewer migrants with skills that are already in surplus in Australia will be considered for residency.

  • Google in sight as Ballmer vows .NET push

    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer confessed the software giant's .NET interoperability efforts with IBM and Sun have slowed, says he's accepted SQL Server's shortcomings, and vowed to keep fighting search giant Google.

  • Australian govt launches national online knowledge service

    The federal government today launched a new network designed in part to make the multi-billion dollar government information technology market more accessible to small-to-medium enterprises.

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  • What skills shortage?

    There are skilled workers and employers looking for them--but how do we match the two up?

  • Australian scientists call for migrant IT worker study

    Australian scientists, under the auspices of the Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies (FACTS), have written to the Federal Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations Tony Abbott requesting the government conduct a tracking study of qualified migrants.

  • Opportunity lost? Australia's skilled migrants

    ZDNet Australia investigates why Australia is missing out on the talents of a myriad of IT migrants, many of whom are forced into work significantly below their field of expertise in order to survive.

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