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  • Labor to miss schools broadband plan deadline

    The Liberals have accused the Labor government of "breaking another election promise" after Senator Kim Carr was unable to confirm that high-speed broadband access will be made available to schools in time to accompany government's planned one-PC-per-desk rollout for high school students.

  • Industry group wants IT in a Labor cabinet

    A leading ICT industry group plans to write to Labor leader, Mark Latham, seeking assurances that a Latham Labor government would include an IT Minister and that Minister would have a Cabinet post.

  • Coonan defends 'broadband for votes' e-mail

    Yesterday in parliament, Communications Minister Helen Coonan was questioned on the necessity for government to examine maps of 40 key marginal seats in order to assess the political impact of Australia's landmark bush broadband announcement.

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