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  • Tanner: Telstra's Foxtel role "dreadful"

    Key cabinet ministers have given differing views on Telstra's ownership of Foxtel, as the government prepares to carve up the telco giant.

  • Web porn blocking sparks war of words

    The government and its Labor rivals have been indulging in a slanging match over the Coalition's plans to introduce Internet porn blocking software.

  • Conroy scores broadband goal

    Was it Communications Minister Senator Coonan herself who left the door open for Labor to launch its extremely popular new broadband policy?

  • Howard blasts "reckless" Labor broadband plan

    Prime Minister John Howard today accused Labor of being reckless and short-sighted in proposing to raid the Future Fund to pay for a high-speed broadband network.

  • Coonan backs PC-based porn filters

    Communications and IT minister Senator Helen Coonan has attacked Labor's policy of forcing Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to filter Internet content, backing instead PC-based filtering technology.

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  • Time to labour for IT

    Remember the Labor Partys "Knowledge Nation" IT manifesto unveiled in the last federal election? It died a natural death. Will the party's communications and information policies for the October federal election suffer the same fate?

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