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  • Nats to vote for deferral of Telstra vote

    The federal government will have to rely on the support of the entire Senate crossbench if it wants parliament to approve its plan to restructure Telstra before the end of the year.

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    Shadow Minister for Communications Nick Minchin has called upon the Federal Government to end its ISP-level filtering trial "farce".

  • Minchin calls for broadband market review

    The Coalition has called on the Rudd Government to have the Productivity Commission examine Australia's broadband market or risk wasting billions on its new national network proposal.

  • Turnbull slams 'dangerous NBN delusion'

    Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull yesterday slammed the $43 billion National Broadband Network project, saying that if any business person behaved in the way Prime Minister Kevin Rudd had, he'd find himself in hot water with the nation's financial regulator.

  • Tech firms donate to NSW politicians

    Telstra, Optus, Microsoft, Deloitte and Macquarie Telecom donated thousands of dollars to NSW political parties in the second half of 2008, the state's Election Funding Authority has revealed.

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    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.

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  • 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.

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    With real risks and real competition, Malcolm Turnbull, questions the Prime Minister's promise of an affordable, high-speed broadband at a speed of 100 megabits a second to 90 per cent of Australian households via a $43 billion fibre-to-the-household network.

  • Qld Govt: The usual ICT suspects

    Despite a changing of the guard in several influential departments and offices in the past 2-years (Health, Transport, Emergency Services, Police, Premier's, Public Works, and QGCIO, to name a few), the true identity of ICT influence in Queensland government still rests with the agency CIOs.

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