Two thousand Victorian potential jobs may have evaporated after Mahindra Satyam this week pulled its plans to build an information technology learning centre at Deakin University in Geelong.
Queensland politician Robert Schwarten will keep the information and communications technology portfolio in Anna Bligh's new cabinet, it was announced last week.
A large number of Queensland ICT industry luminaries donned red and yellow T-shirts to dominate the floor at an election debate in Brisbane between Premier Anna Bligh and opposition leader Lawrence Springborg.
Queensland ICT opposition spokesperson Fiona Simpson has rejected comments by state ICT Minister Robert Schwarten yesterday that one of her party's election policies would have a "disastrous" effect on government.
Queensland ICT Minister Robert Schwarten suffered a misstep in his election campaign today, attacking the wrong opposition spokesperson on the Liberal National Party election policy on government ICT spending cuts.
ICT salaries are rising, but they are certainly not skyrocketing.
These days, you're just as likely to see high-technology surfboard designers wearing board shorts to work as Star Trek T-shirts.
Australia's IT industry needs to follow the example laid down in Queensland this week and band together to lobby for more government support instead of individual firms fruitlessly pushing their own campaigns.
With only weeks to go to the election, how are the main parties shaping up on their tech promises?
Good times are underway for Australia's information technology workforce, with advertised information and communications technology positions due to grow sharply for the first six months of the year.
The Australian Computer Society has announced the findings of its latest ICT employment survey but its president's confusing and contradictory statements about the job market warrants closer scrutiny, writes Fran Foo.
Winning a major government contract has convinced one British company to open a Melbourne branch, creating 100 new ICT jobs in Victoria by mid 2004.
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