items tagged with Government
Conroy: don’t be coy on Telstra proposal, says Minchin
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-12-14 00:08:40
It might be the political silly season but the Shadow Minister for Communications is pouring the pressure onto Minister for Communications, Senator Stephen Conroy, to come clean on whether Telstra’s “non-compliant proposal” has “made the cut” in the bid to build the NBN.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-12-14 00:08:40
It might be the political silly season but the Shadow Minister for Communications is pouring the pressure onto Minister for Communications, Senator Stephen Conroy, to come clean on whether Telstra’s “non-compliant proposal” has “made the cut” in the bid to build the NBN.
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Conroy’s Christmas TV crusade: may it be digitally merry
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-12-12 01:00:06
Australia’s Minister for Broadband, Senator Stephen Conroy, has taken time out from politics’ silly season to encourage Australians to “enjoy a Digital TV Christmas”. It's a handy distraction and channel change from the Internet filtering debate!
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-12-12 01:00:06
Australia’s Minister for Broadband, Senator Stephen Conroy, has taken time out from politics’ silly season to encourage Australians to “enjoy a Digital TV Christmas”. It's a handy distraction and channel change from the Internet filtering debate!
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Government talkfest needs to spark action
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2008-12-12 00:49:51
Australia's favourite Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy and his state and territory counterparts (plus a local government representative) have put their heads together and come up with a motherhood statement on broadband.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2008-12-12 00:49:51
Australia's favourite Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy and his state and territory counterparts (plus a local government representative) have put their heads together and come up with a motherhood statement on broadband.
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Minchin also praises AFP on pwning child porn purveyors
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-12-11 22:28:03
Australian Shadow Communications Minister, Senator Nick Minchin, has also taken the time to congratulate the Australian Federal Police (AFP) on their stellar efforts in tackling the scourge of “peer-to-peer” child pornographers.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-12-11 22:28:03
Australian Shadow Communications Minister, Senator Nick Minchin, has also taken the time to congratulate the Australian Federal Police (AFP) on their stellar efforts in tackling the scourge of “peer-to-peer” child pornographers.
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Can Australian ever “waste” the E-Waste problem?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-12-11 18:21:45
In mobster parlance, to “waste” something is to get rid of it, hence the headline. Yet the question is vital, with millions of technological products currently going into landfill and polluting the earth for generations to come, with Australia’s politicians predictably “wasting” time dithering on not delivering a solution. The “TEC” demands action – now!
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-12-11 18:21:45
In mobster parlance, to “waste” something is to get rid of it, hence the headline. Yet the question is vital, with millions of technological products currently going into landfill and polluting the earth for generations to come, with Australia’s politicians predictably “wasting” time dithering on not delivering a solution. The “TEC” demands action – now!
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Conroy congratulates Police child porn crackdown
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-12-11 00:04:04
Australia’s Minister for Communications, Senator Stephen Conroy, has issued his congratulations to the Australian Federal Police over a major crackdown on the insidious crime of Internet child abuse imagery.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-12-11 00:04:04
Australia’s Minister for Communications, Senator Stephen Conroy, has issued his congratulations to the Australian Federal Police over a major crackdown on the insidious crime of Internet child abuse imagery.
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Why the Cybersource Linux solution for Australian school laptops won't make it
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2008-12-10 04:26:42
Australian Linux and open source implementation and training consultancy, Cybersource, have put forth their 9-step open-source and netbook solution to solve the Australian Government’s one-laptop-per-child promise which has so far had policy makers scratching their red-faced heads. Yet, Cybersource's plan simply won't make traction and here's why not.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2008-12-10 04:26:42
Australian Linux and open source implementation and training consultancy, Cybersource, have put forth their 9-step open-source and netbook solution to solve the Australian Government’s one-laptop-per-child promise which has so far had policy makers scratching their red-faced heads. Yet, Cybersource's plan simply won't make traction and here's why not.
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Conroy cries “crikey!” over Opposition broadband “insult”
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-12-09 22:04:37
Ok, so Senator Stephen Conroy, the Minister for Communications, didn’t quite say “Crikey!” but he’s not happy over the claimed “shambolic broadband stunt” from the Federal Opposition which is an “insult to regional voters”.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-12-09 22:04:37
Ok, so Senator Stephen Conroy, the Minister for Communications, didn’t quite say “Crikey!” but he’s not happy over the claimed “shambolic broadband stunt” from the Federal Opposition which is an “insult to regional voters”.
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Like the computer, Telstra says “no” – to Aussie Net filtering
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-12-08 22:32:01
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-12-08 22:32:01
Australia’s dominant telco, Telstra, has decided not to participate in the Australian Federal Government’s “Internet filtering” trial, primarily due to “customer management issues”, but might still implement filtering technologies in the future.
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Australian government turns to blogging - for consultations!
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: E-Government
2008-12-08 19:05:22
The Australian federal government has announced a co-ordinated trial of the use of blogs as a way of consulting the electorate on a series of issues. Will Australians blog on, or will they tell the Government to blog off?
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: E-Government
2008-12-08 19:05:22
The Australian federal government has announced a co-ordinated trial of the use of blogs as a way of consulting the electorate on a series of issues. Will Australians blog on, or will they tell the Government to blog off?
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Aussie NBN network already being bypassed by Next G?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-12-07 20:47:21
With plenty of talk recently about how wireless technologies could make the proposed Australian "National Broadband Network" or NBN redundant, Telstra is already demonstrating an 800km rollout of fibre in the Northern Territory alongside wireless solutions that are serving rural and regional Australia with high-speed broadband – today.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-12-07 20:47:21
With plenty of talk recently about how wireless technologies could make the proposed Australian "National Broadband Network" or NBN redundant, Telstra is already demonstrating an 800km rollout of fibre in the Northern Territory alongside wireless solutions that are serving rural and regional Australia with high-speed broadband – today.
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Telstra says Net filtering useless, GetUp wants re-think
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-12-04 22:54:03
Telstra’s Greg Winn has poured cold water over the Government’s filtering plans, saying it's akin to trying to “boil the ocean” and that people will find a way around it, while GetUp!’s campaign to “Save the Net” draws huge support from Australians.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-12-04 22:54:03
Telstra’s Greg Winn has poured cold water over the Government’s filtering plans, saying it's akin to trying to “boil the ocean” and that people will find a way around it, while GetUp!’s campaign to “Save the Net” draws huge support from Australians.
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Conroy says Opposition “clears up” signal on digital TV
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-12-04 20:36:42
After initially saying that the Australian Federal Opposition “sabotaged” the definite rollout date for digital TV in Australia, Federal Communications Minister Senator Conroy now says the Opposition has instead “backed down” and has decided to help deliver a clear signal on when analog will be no more, and digital will rule the day – the 31st of December, 2013.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-12-04 20:36:42
After initially saying that the Australian Federal Opposition “sabotaged” the definite rollout date for digital TV in Australia, Federal Communications Minister Senator Conroy now says the Opposition has instead “backed down” and has decided to help deliver a clear signal on when analog will be no more, and digital will rule the day – the 31st of December, 2013.
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CEDA says competition not NBN is key to broadband success
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2008-12-03 04:37:21
Leading economic think tank CEDA (Committee for Economic Development of Australia) has criticised the Federal Government's obsession with building the National Broadband Network, saying a subsidised $4.7 billion FTTN rollout is unnecessary. CEDA's report, Australia’s Broadband Future: Four doors to greater competition, maintains that focussing on FTTN to the exclusion of competing access methods will decrease competition.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2008-12-03 04:37:21
Leading economic think tank CEDA (Committee for Economic Development of Australia) has criticised the Federal Government's obsession with building the National Broadband Network, saying a subsidised $4.7 billion FTTN rollout is unnecessary. CEDA's report, Australia’s Broadband Future: Four doors to greater competition, maintains that focussing on FTTN to the exclusion of competing access methods will decrease competition.
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Linux netbooks look likely to save Australian government education election promise
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2008-12-02 22:59:17
The New South Wales (NSW) Department of Education and Training (DET) has today revealed its required specifications for custom-built laptops it intends to issue to students from grades 9 to 12 by the middle of 2009. In what is remniscent of a netbook, the budget is set at $500 per model, with hardware at that level.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2008-12-02 22:59:17
The New South Wales (NSW) Department of Education and Training (DET) has today revealed its required specifications for custom-built laptops it intends to issue to students from grades 9 to 12 by the middle of 2009. In what is remniscent of a netbook, the budget is set at $500 per model, with hardware at that level.
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Digital TV sabotaged by opposition, says Conroy
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2008-12-02 22:40:04
The Australian Government claims the switchover to digital television planned for 2013 has been put into doubt following Opposition amendments to the Digital Television Switchover Bill 2008 that were passed in the Senate today.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2008-12-02 22:40:04
The Australian Government claims the switchover to digital television planned for 2013 has been put into doubt following Opposition amendments to the Digital Television Switchover Bill 2008 that were passed in the Senate today.
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Free (but censored) wireless Internet for the Land of the Free
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Reports & Surveys
2008-12-02 15:30:57
US Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin is pushing provisions for a free, nationwide wireless Internet service. The Commission is expected to consider the proposal later this month.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Reports & Surveys
2008-12-02 15:30:57
US Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin is pushing provisions for a free, nationwide wireless Internet service. The Commission is expected to consider the proposal later this month.
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Obama goes for Google government
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: E-Government
2008-12-01 16:07:34
Barack Obama promised change during the US Presidential election race, now he is delivering it by adopting a Creative Commons license and introducing online public discussion forums as a first step towards a Google-enabled government.
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: E-Government
2008-12-01 16:07:34
Barack Obama promised change during the US Presidential election race, now he is delivering it by adopting a Creative Commons license and introducing online public discussion forums as a first step towards a Google-enabled government.
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Quaking Quilty questions Singtel Optus $10 billion NBN “black hole”
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-11-27 21:50:20
With many believing Telstra is set to win the National Broadband Network (NBN) tender, come what may, Telstra’s David Quilty is going out on an all-out attack on Singtel Optus, questioning its “$10 billion funding hole” and labelling it a “sub-prime NBN bidder”.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-11-27 21:50:20
With many believing Telstra is set to win the National Broadband Network (NBN) tender, come what may, Telstra’s David Quilty is going out on an all-out attack on Singtel Optus, questioning its “$10 billion funding hole” and labelling it a “sub-prime NBN bidder”.
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Telstra makes mockery of NBN tender process
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2008-11-26 23:12:37
It really makes no difference whether a Howard Coalition or a Rudd Labor Government is in power, Telstra obviously considers itself answerable to no-one. What other conclusion can be drawn from the monolithic telco's action of answering the Government's RFP to build the National Broadband Network with a non-compliant 12-page document?
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2008-11-26 23:12:37
It really makes no difference whether a Howard Coalition or a Rudd Labor Government is in power, Telstra obviously considers itself answerable to no-one. What other conclusion can be drawn from the monolithic telco's action of answering the Government's RFP to build the National Broadband Network with a non-compliant 12-page document?
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