The internet filter is dead! Long live the filter!

Tony Smith must be a little miffed that shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey took it on himself to announce Coalition policy on the internet filter.
 

Coalition to block internet filter: Hockey

Shadow treasurer Joe Hockey says the Coalition would dump the Government's controversial mandatory internet filter plan and instead revert to the Howard Government policy of making free end-user filters available to parents.
 

Industry slams Gillard raid on Gershon funds

The technology sector's peak industry lobby has slammed the Gillard Government decision to raid $450 million in funding that had been quarantined for use in innovative new ICT projects.
 

NBN to underpin economic growth: Albanese

Investment in the National Broadband Network was the "clear point of distinction" between the Gillard Government and the opposition, and was the investment that would underpin nation building projects from energy to transport to the environment, Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese says.
 

Election 2010: Where's the tech sector?

We are at the half way point in the federal election campaign and the technology sector has barely rated a mention. And I have a theory about that.
 

AFACT: Time to change business model?

The long-running copyright case between ISP iiNet and the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) looks to have come full circle, with one Federal Court judge musing out loud that there is a commercial solution to the issue, regardless of what is decided by the bench.
 

Carriers demand telecom reform pledge

As election nervousness creeps into the telecommunications sector, the industry's peak lobby has called for all parties to commit to fundamental regulatory reforms to improve market competition and consumer outcomes.
 

Could Tony Abbott unscramble the NBN egg?

All the momentum in this so far tedious federal election campaign has been Tony Abbott's, delivering opinion polls suggesting for the first time that he is a real chance of becoming Australia's next Prime Minister - and that the Coalition can make good its promise to scrap the national broadband network.
 

Election 2010: NBN love for Hasluck miners

There was a very good reason, in case anyone missed it, why the Prime Minister unveiled the National Broadband Network fibre footprint in the West Australian seat of Hasluck, rather than in a population centre.
 

Election 2010: NBN broadband fibre mapped

The Gillard Government will take the advice of its KPMG-McKinsey implementation study and roll-out optical fibre in its national broadband network to 93 per cent of Australians - instead of the 90 per cent originally planned.