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  • Aussie ICANN chief to step down

    The Australian president and CEO of ICANN, the non-profit responsible for the internet's domain name system, announced overnight he would be stepping down from his position at the end of 2009.

  • Budget: E-security gets $13.6m boost

    The federal government will spend AU$13.6 million over the next four years trying to protect consumers and businesses from "sophisticated and targeted attacks".

  • Abetz shifted in reshuffle

    Prime Minister John Howard's ministerial reshuffle will deny the outgoing Special Minister of State, Senator Eric Abetz, the opportunity to launch a far-reaching e-government strategy developed over the past several months.

  • E-government strategy faces delay until 2006

    Release of a new five-year federal e-government strategy, originally planned for late this year, is now likely to slip to early next year, according to government sources.

  • Abetz to reshape e-government agenda

    Special Minister of State Eric Abetz is expected to announce a renewed push to improve e-government services by the end of the year.

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  • Australia sources for open strategy

    Government departments have shed their initial reluctance to use open source technologies, but the problem persists -- how do you determine appropriate usage?

  • Face off: Lundy vs. Williams

    Communications minister Daryl Williams and his political foe Kate Lundy debate on a wide range of issues, including three most pressing problems facing Australia's ICT industry.

  • UPDATE: AU government to ban spam

    The federal government intends to introduce legislation that will ban unsolicited commercial e-mail, the Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Senator Richard Alston announced today.

  • Australia needs spam laws: govt report

    The National Office for the Information Economy (NOIE) has recommended the introduction of anti-spamming laws, whilst simultaneously playing down their potential benefits in a report released today.

  • Aust broadband: bottom of the ladder

    Thirty or so years since the birth of the Internet, we seem to be at a technological standstill when it comes to access speeds and bandwidth. If it is meant to be a superhighway, why does it feel like a back road?

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