News (21)

  • Labor promise: 'We won't bring in new Access Card'

    The Department of Human Services has denied the Federal Labor government is investigating the introduction of a nationwide ID card scheme similar to the previous government's Access Card.

  • Labor lips sealed on Access Card future

    Despite having taken a non-committal stance on the Access Card during the election campaign, privacy advocates are hopeful that Labor will scrap the project now that it has entered government.

  • Access Card killed off by election?

    The upcoming election could prove a fatal blow to the government's Access Card plans, with privacy advocates encouraging a voter rebellion on the issue and Labor promising to drop the project if elected to government.

  • Coalition ranked worst for privacy in election run-up

    The Coalition has been rated bottom among the major parties on commitment to privacy issues, according to a report released by the Australian Privacy Foundation.

  • Access card to go ahead despite backlash: Govt

    Opposition parties and privacy groups are warning that Australians may still be forced to carry the government's controversial Access Card should the Liberal Party win the upcoming federal election.

More News >

Features and Case Studies (3)

  • Election 07: Coonan vs Conroy

    With only weeks to go to the election, how are the main parties shaping up on their tech promises?

  • 2007: How was it for security?

    Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.

  • Protecting our borders: IT stands guard

    Can a national ID card protect Australians against terrorist attacks? And can citizens' details be protected by Public Key Infrastructure? We look at the types of hardware and software employed to combat terrorism, and how ports and other critical infrastructure are protected.

Create an e-mail alert for "access"
ZDNet Australia Alerts is an e-mail alert service which provides personalised news, features and reviews to readers’ inbox on an hourly, daily and weekly basis.
Alert:
access


Frequency: *

Filter Tags

  1. Popularity: 8 access card
  2. Popularity: 2 alp
  3. Popularity: 1 anti-privacy
  4. Popularity: 1 asio
  5. Popularity: 2 australia card
  6. Popularity: 1 australian customs service
  7. Popularity: 1 australian government
  8. Popularity: 2 banking
  9. Popularity: 1 brian greig
  10. Popularity: 2 coalition
  11. Popularity: 1 computer security
  12. Popularity: 1 customs
  13. Popularity: 3 dale clapperton
  14. Popularity: 2 debate
  15. Popularity: 3 democrats
  16. Popularity: 4 efa
  17. Popularity: 6 election
  18. Popularity: 2 election 2001
  19. Popularity: 4 election07
  20. Popularity: 1 federal government
  21. Popularity: 2 fraud
  22. Popularity: 6 government
  23. Popularity: 2 human services
  24. Popularity: 3 id card
  25. Popularity: 3 identity
  26. Popularity: 1 interception
  27. Popularity: 1 internet security
  28. Popularity: 1 it policies
  29. Popularity: 1 jobs
  30. Popularity: 3 joe ludwig
  31. Popularity: 1 legislation
  32. Popularity: 1 legislative assembly
  33. Popularity: 6 liberal
  34. Popularity: 1 maslog-levis
  35. Popularity: 2 medicare
  36. Popularity: 1 music swapping
  37. Popularity: 1 new south wales
  38. Popularity: 1 nsw
  39. Popularity: 1 olpc
  40. Popularity: 1 patrick gray
  41. Popularity: 1 pauline hanson
  42. Popularity: 1 photo card bill 2004
  43. Popularity: 2 politics
  44. Popularity: 1 resume
  45. Popularity: 8 security
  46. Popularity: 2 smartcard
  47. Popularity: 1 the democrats
  48. Popularity: 1 the great debate
  49. Popularity: 1 the greens
  50. Popularity: 1 the liberal party
Sponsored content

Power Centre - Content from our premier sponsors

Blogs

  • Alex Serpo Is green IT a marketing fad?
    It seems that green IT has dropped off the radar, with other technology issues moving to the fore. But was green IT ever a real technology movement, or was it just a marketing fad?
  • Array Gutless studios have the wrong target
    I have one word for the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT). Gutless.
  • Array NBN needs workers on board
    Without consensus on labour issues, the eventual winner of the NBN may end up as little more than a lame duck and a cashed-up symbol of the conflict between the desire for progress and the lack of mechanisms to deliver it.
  • More blogs »

Back to top

Featured