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• Qld ICT campaign had no effect: Schwarten

  Queensland ICT Minister Robert Schwarten claimed today that the industry lobbying campaign carried out by the state's ICT Workgroup during Queensland's last election didn't have any effect.

• Qld ICT industry launches election push

  Queensland's ICT industry this morning launched itself wholeheartedly into the state election, placing advertisements demanding support from both sides of politics to boost technology jobs and the industry as a whole.

• ICT industry mobs Qld election debate

  A large number of Queensland ICT industry luminaries donned red and yellow T-shirts to dominate the floor at an election debate in Brisbane between Premier Anna Bligh and opposition leader Lawrence Springborg.

• Qld ICT Minister attacks wrong rival

  Queensland ICT Minister Robert Schwarten suffered a misstep in his election campaign today, attacking the wrong opposition spokesperson on the Liberal National Party election policy on government ICT spending cuts.

• Online campaigning beats broadcast blackout

  Political parties are expected to use the Internet to blast home their final election messages, as the Web is immune to ACMA's pre-election propaganda ban.

Blogs (8)

• Cop it sweet

  Patch Monday makes its timely return and is armed with another week of stories, interviews and rumours to digest.

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  Just how fast is fast, anyway?

  There's something immensely gratifying about accomplishing the seemingly impossible -- particularly in IT, where pundits regularly proclaim that a particular technology has hit its physical limits.

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  Tasmanian NBN: Small step or a giant leap?

  Like the engineers that sat down on day one with an empty blackboard and a mission to get man to the moon and back, building the NBN from the ground up is a daunting and complex opportunity that will present more than its share of challenges.

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  Conroy scraps filter blacklist

  Communications minister Stephen Conroy today announced the controversial web filtering blacklist will be scrapped and be replaced with a whitelist-based filtering regime, to be administered by viewer voting through a family-friendly digital TV-only show called 'The White List'.

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  MyPerfect.com.au has potential

  Victorian Web start-up My Perfect has a strong story and rationale for why it will succeed. But it has to overcome some challenges and design flaws first.

Features and Case Studies (8)

• Where else but Queensland?

  Australia's IT industry needs to follow the example laid down in Queensland this week and band together to lobby for more government support instead of individual firms fruitlessly pushing their own campaigns.

• New dawn for Australian IT executives

  Demand for Australian IT executives is predicted to rise steadily over the next year as the economy re-enters a growth phase and companies resist using IT departments as a sacrificial goat for cost savings, according to Grant Montgomery, the managing director of E.L. Consult

• Good times roll for Aust IT jobs, salaries

  Good times are underway for Australia's information technology workforce, with advertised information and communications technology positions due to grow sharply for the first six months of the year.

• Conroy charts national broadband agenda

  The Australian Labor Party's ICT shadow minister wants a national fibre broadband network and enough skilled people to exploit it.

• AU companies regain interest in humbled, cheaper tech execs

  A sharp rise in private sector demand for IT executives' heralds good news for the beleaguered sector, despite an overall decline in the number of jobs advertised for IT management.

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  You think spam techniques are driving you mad now... just take a look at what's in store.

• Intel touts extended uses for PC

  Chipmaker Intel not only wants to get inside the personal computer, it now wants to be outside, too, amid slumping demand for PCs that has Intel touting new consumer devices to change the way PCs are used.

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