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• NSW Ageing CIO retires

  James Hegarty, current CIO for the NSW Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care as well as former IT head at the state's Department of Corrections, is retiring after around 30 years in the public service.

• Telstra dumps paper admin fee

  Telstra has dumped its controversial $2.20 administration fee for people paying their bills over the counter or by mail less than two months after it was introduced.

• Grants system laissez-faire with billions

  An Oracle-based system used to administer grants for the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) was not up to the task of monitoring the billions of dollars which has passed through it over the years, the federal auditor-general has said.

• 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.

• Brisbane council CIO finishes up

  Brisbane City Council chief information officer Tony Welsh has left his position following the expiration of his contract.

Blogs (16)

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  Has New Zealand's smiling assassin delivered?

  One year into its tenure, how has the new New Zealand Government performed on issues of technology and telecommunications?

• Senate Select finds Tassie is in the dark

  Next month the Senate Select Committee on the NBN will table its final report. It will reflect the views of 100 or so submitted documents and a series of public hearings.

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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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  Where next for telco number three?

  What's next for AAPT? Australia's number three telco refused to join Twisted Wire this week, so we decided to cover them anyway, guerrilla-style.

• E-health too unsexy for COAG

  There will always be something more politically sexy than e-health for state governments, meaning the National E-Health Transition Authority's business case for a national electronic medical record might just sit on the shelf gathering dust forever.

Features and Case Studies (107)

• The war on file sharing hits Australia

  Cover the windows, stay indoors and bunker down the war on file sharing has reached Australian shores. Copyright owners have a fair claim to their content, but is it fair to saddle ISPs with the responsibility of policing their users? And should copyright enforcers be able to steal our privacy?

• Why Healthscope picked Technology One

  The chief information officer of Healthscope tells us why, despite a stakeholder bent for an SAP or Oracle supply chain and financial system, the Australian healthcare giant opted for Queensland-based vendor Technology One instead.

• Giant Aussie 2009 predictions round-up

  What will 2009 hold for Australia's ICT industry? We asked dozens of local leaders for their predictions; and this is what they came up with.

• VoIP war stories from the Australian front

  In this feature, ZDNet.com.au speaks to IT managers across the nation to collate their "war stories" deploying Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) in their organisations. Cut through the spin and find out what's really happening on the Australian VoIP front.

• 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.

Reviews (15)

• CRTs: The price of progress

  There are about a million tonnes of glass from old CRT monitors sitting in homes and offices - all set to become waste over the next 10 years.

• New mobile call scam threatens users

  Beware! Scammers have found a new way to dupe consumers, this time using mobile calls.

• Study: Mobile use spreading into the home

  Mobile services and applications designed primarily for business environments are spilling into homes, according to a new IDC study.

• Apple moves to support DVD+RW format

  After years of backing only one format in the recordable DVD format war, Apple Computer is adding limited support of a rival format into its operating system.

• 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?

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