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    Telstra chief David Thodey has signed an agreement with the telco's key unions outlining the principles that will guide negotiations over its new enterprise agreement.

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    The Federal Government today launched a taskforce to investigate web 2.0's ability to make government more transparent and increase community engagement.

  • NSW re-shuffle to target IT savings

    The NSW state government will reportedly target savings from its information technology operations as one portion of a mammoth re-shuffle of departments and agencies in the state budget next Tuesday.

  • Defence signs up for IBM servers

    The Department of Defence has entered into a standing offer with IBM for the purchase of x86 servers and services.

  • ATO looks to cut 120 IT jobs

    The Community and Public Sector Union said today that it has received a letter from the Australian Taxation Office which said the Office intended to cut its IT staff by 120.

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  • Read the blog post - Juha Saarinen

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    Telstra's New Zealand arm TelstraClear is one strange company ...

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    G2009: Microsoft needs to regain trust

    We've got our own open source versus Microsoft stoush going on in New Zealand, with the government as a key player.

  • Read the blog post - Suzanne Tindal

    How going public can be, well, public

    Do the boards of IT companies deliberate extra carefully before making a deal with government for fear of having their name pulled through the dirt when they stuff up?

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    NBN needs workers on board

    Without consensus on labour issues, the eventual winner of the NBN may end up as little more than a lame duck and a cashed-up symbol of the conflict between the desire for progress and the lack of mechanisms to deliver it.

  • Read the blog post - Liam Tung

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    Everything from cleaning to IT development work is outsourced by governments these days, but should security clearance processes, which dictate what access a person has to government information systems, be included in that bundle?

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  • Eight IT questions for the NSW Govt

    What will the impact of NSW Premier Nathan Rees' ambitious agency consolidation plans be on the state's public sector ICT workers and infrastructure?

  • Crown copyright still a challenge

    In the tragic circumstances that unfolded in Victoria on Black Saturday, no one could deny that as the fires raced across public land towards their homes, those residents had a clear right to information.

  • Qld: Time for an innovation agenda

    Queensland has been launched into a snap state election, and the local IT Industry is feeling a little left out.

  • David Moffatt will be Telstra CEO

    There is no single candidate right now better suited to succeed Sol Trujillo as Telstra chief executive than the telco's current consumer marketing and channels chief David Moffatt.

  • Gershon pumpkin will vanish at midnight

    The long-term net impact of Gershon's idealistic review will realistically be negligible at best and at worst will prove to be a distraction for years to come.

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  • Gartner: Elections are hurting government projects

    Public sector IT projects are moving forward but stakeholders have been stumped by the election. John Kost, managing VP for Gartner's government team, says people don't know who will make decisions once their project is implemented.

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  • Nine lives for Mac OS 9

    Apple Computer has pulled back from a plan that would have made Mac OS X the primary operating system on all new Macs starting in January.

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