News (319)

  • Minchin gets shadow broadband job

  • Vic govt beefs up ID fraud laws

    The Victorian government has started cracking down on identity theft by introducing new offences and increasing penalties.

  • AIRC backflips on Telstra union talks

    The Australian Industrial Relations Commission has back flipped, saying over the weekend it had no jurisdiction to adjudicate the ongoing dispute between Telstra and its unions, despite giving a contradictory finding just last week.

  • Politicians need to be RFID tagged: Burgess

    Telstra spin-doctor Phil Burgess gave one of his final speeches today during a luncheon held at the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce, slinging off amusing stories that included a road trip on a Harley Davidson and RFID tagging politicians to mark his 38 months, 10 days and 14 hours in Australia but who's counting?

  • NHS IT contractors get pay rise

    UK health agency Connecting for Health will now pay telco BT 1 billion, 61 per cent more than the original 620 million, to provide the backbone for the NHS National Programme for IT, following a contract reset in February this year.

More News >

Blogs (4)

  • Read the blog post - Liam Tung

    Why I hate the Privacy Commissioner's office

    According to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner's 2007 annual report, Australian consumers should feel pretty safe but that's because it's full of crap.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    The Swedes are doing it, so why can't we?

    I have never been to Sweden. In fact, I have no real, hard evidence that Sweden really exists as anything more than a collective, Utopian vision where things just work, and life is better.

  • Read the blog post - Ella Morton

    Coming to you fast and furious from the FITT lunch

    The more I think about the issues surrounding the under-representation of women in IT, the further I get from finding a solution. Overanalysis is a real drag. And that's why this year I'm going to be blogging direct from the FITT lunch.

  • Read the blog post - Ella Morton

    Cleopatra eyes and a power suit

    Should powerful women in tech be judged solely on their achievements, or within the context of their 'femaleness'? It's a confusing issue and I'm still not sure...

Features and Case Studies (15)

  • More great Phil Burgess quotes

    After we published a list of the funniest and most biting public comments by Telstra's bombastic public policy chief Phil Burgess last week, a number of ZDNet.com.au readers wrote in suggesting more.

  • Mobile comms: can you predict the future?

    Industry analysts are always predicting what will happen in the future. David Braue went back in time five years to see how analysts expected the mobile comms market to evolve, and then compared it to what actually happened.

  • 3m learner drivers' details lost by UK govt

    The Driving Standards Agency has admitted losing over three million learner drivers' details.

  • Managed services: Kinder, gentler outsourcing

    It was around nine years since strong-armed government departments began to realise willy-nilly outsourcing wasn't, perhaps, the best idea. However, with contracts signed and staff already migrated, there was little to do but ride out the storm. In this special report, we look at the Victoria Police and the South West Alliance of Rural Hospitals' approach to managed services.

  • NSW Parliament: Life after Telstra

    As the place where all legislation governing New South Wales originates, NSW Parliament has more than your basic obligations when it comes to ensuring the security of its data. But how can a small government department, with just five network staff looking after a main office and network of 94 branch offices spread across the country, ever hope to keep up?

More Features and Case Studies >

Reviews (3)

  • Pre-paid market drives AU mobile boom

    Australia's mobile telecommunications market grew by more than 12 per cent in 2002/03, driven by a continuing surge in pre-paid services.

  • The cut-throat business of printer cartridges

    Commentary: Printer manufacturers have been quick to catch on to Gillette's business model, but are they going too far?

  • EU plans to avert tech eco-disaster

    The information technology boom and bust of the 1990s is leaving a lot more than worthless shares and frustrated investors in its wake; it is producing a mountain of electronic waste as technological advancements make computers and other devices containing toxic products obsolete at an increasing pace.

Create an e-mail alert for "parliament"
ZDNet Australia Alerts is an e-mail alert service which provides personalised news, features and reviews to readers’ inbox on an hourly, daily and weekly basis.
Alert:
parliament


Frequency: *

Filter Tags

  1. Popularity: 7 aca
  2. Popularity: 9 accc
  3. Popularity: 6 access card
  4. Popularity: 6 acma
  5. Popularity: 9 bill
  6. Popularity: 24 broadband
  7. Popularity: 7 bruce billson
  8. Popularity: 8 communications
  9. Popularity: 16 coonan
  10. Popularity: 7 data
  11. Popularity: 12 democrats
  12. Popularity: 6 directive
  13. Popularity: 8 e-mail
  14. Popularity: 10 ec
  15. Popularity: 7 election
  16. Popularity: 27 eu
  17. Popularity: 12 europe
  18. Popularity: 5 european
  19. Popularity: 8 fttn
  20. Popularity: 6 google
  21. Popularity: 51 government
  22. Popularity: 7 ict
  23. Popularity: 11 internet
  24. Popularity: 8 isp
  25. Popularity: 6 it
  26. Popularity: 16 labor
  27. Popularity: 12 law
  28. Popularity: 14 legislation
  29. Popularity: 7 liberal
  30. Popularity: 10 linux
  31. Popularity: 7 minister
  32. Popularity: 6 national
  33. Popularity: 13 network
  34. Popularity: 5 nsw
  35. Popularity: 9 open
  36. Popularity: 7 optus
  37. Popularity: 27 patent
  38. Popularity: 11 police
  39. Popularity: 16 privacy
  40. Popularity: 6 regulation
  41. Popularity: 10 security
  42. Popularity: 17 software
  43. Popularity: 9 source
  44. Popularity: 9 spam
  45. Popularity: 8 stephen conroy
  46. Popularity: 6 telco
  47. Popularity: 13 telecommunications
  48. Popularity: 42 telstra
  49. Popularity: 9 uk
  50. Popularity: 8 victoria
Sponsored content

Power Centre - Content from our premier sponsors

Blogs

  • Renai LeMay StartupCamp Melbourne: The review
    StartupCamp Melbourne looks to have produced just as interesting ideas as the Sydney event which immediately preceded it, but the Victorian start-ups appear to have stumbled during execution. Sydney 1, Melbourne 0.
  • Array Google should come clean on datacentres
    It's nice that Google says it has put an effort into making its datacentres more energy efficient, but the search giant's pledges won't mean much until it discloses just how many of the beasties it's actually running.
  • Array US shows what OPEL could have been
    Sprint's WiMAX roll-out in Baltimore will prove the Australian government's decision to worm its way out of the Opel WiMAX contract was a short-sighted, and ultimately damaging, political stunt that has benefited nobody.
  • More blogs »

Back to top

Featured