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• Victorian Budget: IT spend tops $100m

  Although big ticket areas such as infrastructure, education and health received the lion's share of the Victorian Budget today, the IT industry will take some benefit with the technical spend totalling over $100 million.

• COAG dishes up NEHTA, school PC funds

  The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting over the weekend proved lucrative for IT, with the National e-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) receiving $218 million to continue its operations and state governments receiving an extra $807 million towards the federal government's computers in schools vision.

• Labor digital education revolution about to COAGulate

  The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) is currently undertaking an audit into the state of IT in Australian secondary schools, with comments made by Acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard yesterday confirming that the "digital divide" is a real phenomena.

• Teachers told: Cash in or lose chance at laptops

  Minister for Education Julia Gillard has written to secondary school principals across Australia inviting them to participate in the Labor government's so-called "digital education revolution".

• Gillard opens coffers for tech-starved schools

  Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, has announced that the first round of funding for Labor's digital education revolution has begun, and urged priority listed schools to apply for grants under the AU$1 billion initiative.

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  NBN should be free, says economist

  Why the National Broadband Network should be free, and other stories from another day of the Senate Select Committee on the Rudd Government's telco infrastructure baby.

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• New president promises Aust Computer Society revamp

  The Australian Computer Society's president-elect has foreshadowed a revamp of the organisation to boost its relevance following indications mid-year the organisation was losing support from some of its members.

• The importance of IP in Australia

  With an increase in patent activity across the globe, we ask if businesses need to be concerned with their intellectual property.

• Profligacy, destruction and IT

  We frequently think of technology as saving the world, as a solution to older, dirtier business practices. But are we being a more than little nave?

• With RFID, corporate might makes right

  Retail powerhouses such as Wal-Mart gather in the United States to push development of controversial tagging technology.

• Global lessons in e-voting

  India reports success, while Venezuela fears fraud. What can the world learn?

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• Helping the public travel smarter

  Smart cards are anticipated to be the next generation in public transport ticketing systems. What are the obstacles faced in implementing them?

• PCs: Keeping IT green

  While recycling is all fine and good, before we go to the trouble of ripping an item to bits and making it into something else ," there is an intermediate stage: Reuse!

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