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News (21)

• Conroy's dept mum on Scott's departure

  Stephen Conroy's Department of Communications, Broadband and the Digital Economy has declined to comment on multiple reports its secretary Patricia Scott will move to another government role.

• Former Bob Hawke staffer to lead DBCDE

  The Federal Government has ousted Patricia Scott from her role leading Stephen Conroy's broadband department, installing former Bob Hawke senior staff and Victorian public servant Peter Harris in her place.

• Britain promises broadband for all

  The British government has revealed plans to create a universal service commitment for broadband that would see every last one of the UK's broadband blackspots filled in.

• Coonan plots broadband masterplan

  Federal Communications Minister, Senator Helen Coonan, is developing a broad-ranging plan to coordinate public and private investment in next-generation broadband infrastructure.

• WA calls for broadband vendors

  The Western Australian state government today invited private sector groups to register their interest in building its planned AU$1 billion statewide broadband network (SBN).

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  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.

Features and Case Studies (10)

• Qld: Time for an innovation agenda

  Queensland has been launched into a snap state election, and the local IT Industry is feeling a little left out.

• Govt cuts ties with Future Fund

  Federal finance minister Lindsay Tanner says the government will beef up the independence of the Future Fund to remove doubt over its ability to make its own decisions, particularly on Telstra.

• David Moffatt will be Telstra CEO

  There is no single candidate right now better suited to succeed Sol Trujillo as Telstra chief executive than the telco's current consumer marketing and channels chief David Moffatt.

• Telstra Sydney protest: Photos

  Two of Telstra's unions commenced industrial action this week; this gallery documents a protest held on Tuesday morning outside Telstra's Elizabeth St, Sydney office, during the strike.

• 10 ways the credit crunch will hit IT

  As job losses mount and with HP announcing it will lay off tens of thousands of workers following its purchase of EDS, we look at what the crunch means for the IT industry.

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