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  • Labor digital education revolution about to COAGulate

    The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) is currently undertaking an audit into the state of IT in Australian secondary schools, with comments made by Acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard yesterday confirming that the "digital divide" is a real phenomena.

  • Telstra 'needlessly denied consumers on ADSL2+'

    Liberal communications spokesperson Bruce Billson has accused the Rudd government of having an inconsistent stance on its dealings with Telstra and its activation of the ADSL2+ network -- but one analyst claims it could all just be semantics.

  • Rudd's 2020 vision looks past technology

    Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has announced the Labor government's plans to bring the country's "best and brightest" together by convening the Australia 2020 summit in April -- but concerns have been raised over its use of technology.

  • 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.

  • Rudd defends broadband delays

    Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has defended the lack of progress in building a national broadband internet network, saying the government was committed to the so-called digital revolution.

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  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Are you getting what you voted for?

    One of the real dangers of election season -- for politicians, at least -- is being held to their word.

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    Ericsson MD's international spy scandal

    Who would have imagined that Ericsson's new local managing director would have an immediate past enmeshed in international espionage?

  • Read the blog post - Steven Deare

    Phone jamming hang ups

    When it comes to matters of national security, you do not have the right to know.

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  • 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?

  • An eye for an aye

    Australia is keeping pace with other governments in biometric usage but are we operating in a policy vacuum with technology that is far from perfect?

  • More great Phil Burgess quotes

    After we published a list of the funniest and most biting public comments by Telstra's bombastic public policy chief Phil Burgess last week, a number of ZDNet.com.au readers wrote in suggesting more.

  • 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.

  • Project management's perilous future

    The future of the project management discipline hinges on the successful adoption of the philosophy of project portfolio management (PPM), a leading project management consultant has cautioned.

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  • Highlights from CES Australasia 2001

    The Australasian Consumer Electronics Show has returned to the Sydney's Exhibition and Convention Centre at Darling Harbour for another week of technophile, sensory overload. Rather than screaming "I'm technology, I'm here!" this year the tone of the show seems a little more subdued. If you need a unit of measurement to gauge the size of the 2001 gathering you might be advised to choose Giga-Hertz. Wireless is a fashionable theme at recent technology shows, but this year the Australasian show's EM radiation level is being boosted by a multipartite effort to promote digital TV to consumers.

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