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    The government has announced a slew of grants to projects which it hopes will extend communications coverage to remote indigenous communities, as part of a AU$36.6 million telecommunications improvement program.

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    The federal government has allocated an additional AU$20 million to cover a shortfall in funding for the Broadband Connect rural broadband subsidy.

  • Governance shortcomings caused Intelligent Island stagnation: ANAO

    It was supposed to turn the island state of Tasmania into a beacon of Australia's ICT industry, but six years later an audit report has blamed poor management and monitoring of the government-backed BITS Intelligent Island program for repeated delays that have made the program something of a lame duck.

  • Bush satellite phones get funding

    A government scheme that subsidises satellite phones for rural Australians will be extended until 2009 under plans announced today.

  • Government funding pushes Aust IT companies live

    The Building on IT Strengths incubator (BITS) program has had 31 companies graduate from the program in the first two years of its existence, according to the Department of Communication, Information Technology and the Arts.

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    If someone gave you AU$93.5 million to spend, would you forget it? I wouldn't either. But this is exactly what seems to have happened in the aftermath of the 2007/8 federal budget, which was widely lambasted by many observers -- including yours truly -- for its lack of funding for meaningful ICT related initiatives.

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    The government wants the IT industry to introduce and manage an Australia-specific IT security skills accreditation and certification scheme. Fran Foo says it's a bad idea.

  • Part II: Lundy vs. Williams

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