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VIRTUALISATION New bush broadband comms network to save lives in Western Australia
VIRTUALISATION New bush broadband comms network to save lives in Western Australia | New bush broadband comms network to save lives in Western Australia |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Sunday, 20 April 2008 | |
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The Clever Networks program was actually a product of Australia’s previous Federal Government, a $113 million program that was part of a larger $1.1 billion ‘Connect Australia’ package, proposed and implemented by former Minister for Communications, Senator Helen Coonan. The new project is called “Bush Medivac WA” and is a new telecommunications system to improve the crisis co-ordination capacity of Western Australia’s rural and remote health and emergency service organisations. Launched at the Bunbury Hospital last Friday by WA Industry and Enterprise Minister Francis Logan and Federal Broadband, Communications and Digital Economy Minister Stephen Conroy, it’s good to see the Senator Conroy fulfilling previous Government promises and bringing much needed communications infrastructure to rural and regional areas. Senator Conroy said in a statement that Bush Medivac WA highlighted the Federal Government’s commitment to deliver productivity and life-changing capabilities to the most remote citizens and communities using broadband. He was quoted saying: “The Bush Medivac WA project will deliver improved emergency and health services to Australians living in regional and remote areas by providing state-of-the-art terrestrial and non-terrestrial broadband network infrastructure.” Bush Medivac WA will use terrestrial and non-terrestrial network infrastructure and innovative applications of broadband technology to improve the voice and data communication capabilities between the State’s regional health and emergency services. It is expected that it will be absolutely invaluable in emergency situations previously hampered by a lack of communication and isolation. Continued on page 2. |
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