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  • In Coonan we trust?

    While Richard Alston and Daryl Williams were often criticised for their inept handling of the IT portfolio, perhaps Helen Coonan, Australia's new communications minister, can be the one to break this cursed trend.

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    Is this a marriage made in heaven? The federal government and shareholders at Australia's largest carrier certainly hope so.

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

  • Time to labour for IT

    Remember the Labor Party´s "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?

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