Queensland Treasurer Andrew Fraser has defended the $450,000 National Broadband Network Company annual pay package for Premier Anna Bligh's outgoing chief of staff, saying he is a very talented man.
The National Broadband Network Company has nabbed Queensland Premier Anna Bligh's chief of staff to be its new government relations and external affairs chief, as well as separately appointing a chief information officer.
National Broadband Network Company executive chairman Mike Quigley has told staff from Queensland Public Works and ICT Minister Robert Schwarten's department that it may not select a single state to become the central headquarters of the company.
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.
Telstra, Optus, Microsoft, Deloitte and Macquarie Telecom donated thousands of dollars to NSW political parties in the second half of 2008, the state's Election Funding Authority has revealed.
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.
Despite a changing of the guard in several influential departments and offices in the past 2-years (Health, Transport, Emergency Services, Police, Premier's, Public Works, and QGCIO, to name a few), the true identity of ICT influence in Queensland government still rests with the agency CIOs.
In Washington and Silicon Valley circles, betting has already begun on who will be the nation's first chief technology officer.
Mothers in NSW can look forward to their maternity data being recorded on a new state-wide database designed to provide better access to life-saving information. However the data will also be made available to GPs over the Web as well as used for research purposes.
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