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    The Coalition has been rated bottom among the major parties on commitment to privacy issues, according to a report released by the Australian Privacy Foundation.

  • Senate broadband inquiry to go ahead

    The Senate has voted to set up an inquiry into the pricing and competition regime of broadband, after the initially rejected bill was enhanced with additional terms of reference.

  • Telstra 'monster' must be wrestled to the ground

    It's not too late for the government to break up the "monster" that is Telstra via structural separation, according to leader of the Australian Democrats, Senator Lyn Allison.

  • Access Card killed off by election?

    The upcoming election could prove a fatal blow to the government's Access Card plans, with privacy advocates encouraging a voter rebellion on the issue and Labor promising to drop the project if elected to government.

  • Skills crisis, what skills crisis?: Coonan

    Senior politicians have warned that Australia is heading for an ICT skills crisis with the country's students outpacing their teachers in their knowledge of technology.

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    Conroy scraps filter blacklist

    Communications minister Stephen Conroy today announced the controversial web filtering blacklist will be scrapped and be replaced with a whitelist-based filtering regime, to be administered by viewer voting through a family-friendly digital TV-only show called 'The White List'.

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  • Why Australia's Pirate Party won't get elected

    Many would love to see the Pirate Party and Communications Minister Stephen Conroy face off in the Australian Senate, but the unorthodox political party doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning the necessary votes.

  • Obama win good news for tech

    In Washington and Silicon Valley circles, betting has already begun on who will be the nation's first chief technology officer.

  • Aust broadband: bottom of the ladder

    Thirty or so years since the birth of the Internet, we seem to be at a technological standstill when it comes to access speeds and bandwidth. If it is meant to be a superhighway, why does it feel like a back road?

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    It was interesting to witness Conroy's recent enthusiasm to spruik the NBN's role in supporting the Smart Grid, Smart City initiative. What a pity that Conroy hadn't yet seen the damning report from the Victorian auditor-general about that state's smart-meter roll-out.
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    In the second of our two programs looking at the Senate Inquiry into the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment Bill, we hear from shareholders, bureaucrats and industry groups.
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    One year into its tenure, how has the new New Zealand Government performed on issues of technology and telecommunications?
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