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  • ICT companies using more lobbyists

    Australian technology and telecommunications companies are making more use of lobbyists to gain influence in Canberra, the Federal Government's lobbyist register has revealed.

  • Telstra tops Canberra lobbyist list

    Telstra has emerged as the most active employer of Canberra lobbyists in the IT&T field, although others such as Apple and Google also employ external firms to push their agendas with politicians and government workers.

  • Rural ISPs: Labor won't cut bush broadband funding

    After Bruce Billson, Opposition spokesperson for Communications, claimed yesterday that the federal government is planning on cutting subsidies to rural and regional broadband providers, a number of industry sources have cast doubt on whether the policy axe has been raised over the Australian Broadband Guarantee.

  • Centrelink cuts the wires on disaster buses

    Originally designed to service drought affected areas, Centrelink's Drought Buses are being used for all emergency conditions. ZDNet.com.au talks with Centrelink's acting national manager for IT service delivery, Matt Rodgers, about how tech keeps the agency on the road.

  • Melbourne company wins Sudan relief comms deal

    A Melbourne-based Australian-owned communications provider will supply satellite-based broadband services to United Nations relief teams working in refugee camps in the conflict-ridden Darfur region in western Sudan.

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