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  • Labor to miss schools broadband plan deadline

    The Liberals have accused the Labor government of "breaking another election promise" after Senator Kim Carr was unable to confirm that high-speed broadband access will be made available to schools in time to accompany government's planned one-PC-per-desk rollout for high school students.

  • Labor bashes Bishop in schoolyard stoush

    Labor's education spokesperson Stephen Smith has hit back at federal Education Minister Julie Bishop's claims that a Labor government will be unable to deliver its promise of a digital education revolution.

  • Labor promise: 'We won't bring in new Access Card'

    The Department of Human Services has denied the Federal Labor government is investigating the introduction of a nationwide ID card scheme similar to the previous government's Access Card.

  • Liberals lost for words over Labor laptop plan

    The Opposition spokesperson for education has accused the Labor government of trying to back-pedal on its commitment to provide a laptop for every student between years 9 and 12.

  • Labor kicks off FTTN funding feud in parliament

    In preparation for its fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) rollout, the Federal Labor government is resuming its campaign to change legislation to allow it to access the AU$2 billion regional and rural Communications Fund, which the government claims is needed to bankroll part of the network's construction.

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  • Read the blog post - Ella Morton

    Mandla, Mardi Gras and Moore

    As residents of NSW prepare to hit the polls, it's an apt time to take a look at the online campaign of former ACS president Edward Mandla, who has employed YouTube in his efforts to oust Clover Moore in the Sydney electorate.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Labor or Liberal, it's Telstra's election

    If there was ever evidence that the stoush over broadband had gotten personal, it came when Telstra's sour-grapes mentality led it to sue Helen Coonan, personally, for claimed procedural flaws in the OPEL contract.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Labor: Clueless on wireless?

    If there ever were concrete evidence that Labor is blowing smoke up the proverbials of the Australian population, it came earlier this month as Senator Stephen Conroy, the man charged with promoting Labor's fibre-everywhere policy while simultaneously taking potshots at his counterpart Senator Helen Coonan, put his foot squarely in his mouth.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Trust us with the NBN; we're politicians

    As Rudd and Conroy railroad the NBN into reality, the Liberals are trying to inject some due process into the whole thing by holding Labor accountable for its decisions. However, with the future of Australian telecoms on the line and no real viable alternative, is it just a bit late for accountability?

  • Read the blog post - Phil Dobbie

    Has Conroy got the numbers for reforms?

    Getting Senator Stephen Conroy's regulatory reform for the telecommunications industry through the parliament would need support from the Senate. On Twisted Wire we ring around to see which parties are supportive and which are against.

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Features and Case Studies (7)

  • Pirates should abandon the federal ship

    The Pirate Party of Australia should forget about trying to win a Senate seat in the Federal Government and instead focus its sights on even lower hanging fruit. I speak, of course, of the state governments.

  • Pollies fail to grasp key IT issues

    An analysis by representatives of Australia's two largest IT industry groups shows that neither political party in the federal election has come up with a comprehensive policy around technology.

  • Time to labour for IT

    Remember the Labor Partys "Knowledge Nation" IT manifesto unveiled in the last federal election? It died a natural death. Will the party's communications and information policies for the October federal election suffer the same fate?

  • Who will fill Minchin's post?

    In the midst of the current Liberal emissions trading and leadership maelstrom, there exists numerous breaches in the shadow cabinet's line-up. Who will step up to fill the gap left by the fallen Senator Minchin?

  • Rudd awakening: Govt's plans for ICT

    Ahead of the election, with promises for nationwide broadband networks and digital revolutions in schools, the ICT industry could hope the government was on their side. But now the glamour of a sparkling new government has worn off, how ICT-friendly is the Rudd government really?

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