The Federal Government will ignore a coalition-dominated Senate committee's call for a cost-benefit analysis into the National Broadband Network (NBN).
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.
Shadow Minister for Communications Nick Minchin has called upon the Federal Government to end its ISP-level filtering trial "farce".
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.
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.
Getting Senator Stephen Conroy's regulatory reform for the telecommunications industry through the parliament would need support from the Senate. On Twisted Wire we ring around to see which parties are supportive and which are against.
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.
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.
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.
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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