News (35)

  • Rudd calls on Facebook mates in campaign

    Prime Ministerial hopeful Kevin Rudd has launched his new campaign for leadership with an online publicity blitz -- turning to blogging, YouTube and Facebook to build his profile.

  • Save broadband from the politicians

    Internet access and infrastructure have rarely been -- how shall I put it? -- the sexiest of subjects. Yet in this election, it seems politicians are finally realising the power of technology both as a vote winner and a means of communicating with the increasingly tech-savvy electorate. Oh dear ...

  • Conroy scores broadband goal

    Was it Communications Minister Senator Coonan herself who left the door open for Labor to launch its extremely popular new broadband policy?

  • Howard blasts "reckless" Labor broadband plan

    Prime Minister John Howard today accused Labor of being reckless and short-sighted in proposing to raid the Future Fund to pay for a high-speed broadband network.

  • Govt to sell AU$8 billion in Telstra shares

    The federal government will sell part of its 51.8 per cent stake in Telstra to the public in October and November, Prime Minister John Howard said today.

More News >

Blogs (2)

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Choosing a vote: as easy as O-E-C-D?

    Well, here we are. After years of bluster, measured progress and loads of annoyance, Australia's broadband users head to the polls on Saturday with a score to settle.

  • Read the blog post - Sheryle Moon

    MySpace: One small step for politicians

    Finally, after months of the Clintons posting Sopranos-style satires and Obama Girl grabbing the headlines during the American presidential race, Australian politicians have switched on to the power of the Internet.

Features and Case Studies (8)

  • Why hasn't Williams left the building?

    The Labor party is calling on IT Minister Daryl Williams to stand down immediately after he announced plans to quit politics at the next election. Should he accede? Who would be an ideal replacement?

  • The good, the bad and the ugly

    What does the recent election result mean to those of us in the IT industry, and Australian employees in general?

  • 2007: How was it for security?

    Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.

  • ACS: Slow and steady wins the race

    The Australian Computer Society is mulling over a report on IT migration, refusing to be pressured into prematurely announcing its results. This, says Fran Foo, is a good move.

  • Part II: Lundy vs. Williams

    This is the second part of our Q&A series between IT Minister Daryl Williams and his political foe, Kate Lundy. To read Part I, please click here.

More Features and Case Studies >

Create an e-mail alert for "election"
ZDNet Australia Alerts is an e-mail alert service which provides personalised news, features and reviews to readers’ inbox on an hourly, daily and weekly basis.
Alert:
election


Frequency: *

Filter Tags

  1. Popularity: 4 abby
  2. Popularity: 2 aca
  3. Popularity: 2 act
  4. Popularity: 4 alp
  5. Popularity: 2 arts
  6. Popularity: 2 australia
  7. Popularity: 3 australian
  8. Popularity: 2 australian labor party
  9. Popularity: 2 authority
  10. Popularity: 6 broadband
  11. Popularity: 2 campaign
  12. Popularity: 5 coalition
  13. Popularity: 5 communications
  14. Popularity: 4 coonan
  15. Popularity: 3 daryl
  16. Popularity: 4 dinham
  17. Popularity: 2 election 2001
  18. Popularity: 2 election07
  19. Popularity: 2 facebook
  20. Popularity: 2 federal
  21. Popularity: 4 ferguson
  22. Popularity: 3 fibre
  23. Popularity: 3 fibre to the node
  24. Popularity: 2 google
  25. Popularity: 5 government
  26. Popularity: 2 harbour
  27. Popularity: 2 helen
  28. Popularity: 9 howard
  29. Popularity: 4 iain
  30. Popularity: 3 information
  31. Popularity: 3 internet
  32. Popularity: 2 kate
  33. Popularity: 9 labor
  34. Popularity: 2 labour
  35. Popularity: 3 liberal
  36. Popularity: 2 lundy
  37. Popularity: 4 minister
  38. Popularity: 2 net
  39. Popularity: 3 party
  40. Popularity: 3 policy
  41. Popularity: 2 shadow
  42. Popularity: 4 spam
  43. Popularity: 2 straight_source
  44. Popularity: 2 t&b
  45. Popularity: 4 technology
  46. Popularity: 3 telecommunications
  47. Popularity: 7 telstra
  48. Popularity: 3 wcit
  49. Popularity: 3 williams
  50. Popularity: 2 youtube
Sponsored content

Power Centre - Content from our premier sponsors

Blogs

  • Renai LeMay Australian Govt funds IT start-ups
    This week Australia's Federal Government announced it had allocated $3.6 million in funding to 57 local research projects so that they could be commercialised, with many of them being web or IT-related start-ups.
  • Array Google should come clean on datacentres
    It's nice that Google says it has put an effort into making its datacentres more energy efficient, but the search giant's pledges won't mean much until it discloses just how many of the beasties it's actually running.
  • Array US shows what OPEL could have been
    Sprint's WiMAX roll-out in Baltimore will prove the Australian government's decision to worm its way out of the Opel WiMAX contract was a short-sighted, and ultimately damaging, political stunt that has benefited nobody.
  • More blogs »

Back to top

Featured