It has been a long time coming, but the 2010 federal election has finally delivered a campaign in which technology has been a front and centre mainstream issue. And so unused to this kind of attention is the tech sector that many of us have found it hard to take.
Conroy: Too early for filter last rites
With the Greens and Coalition having said they will kill Labor's proposed mandatory internet filter - regardless of Saturday's poll - simple Senate mathematics tells you the controversial plan is destined to whither and fade to a distant memory.
Dismal and disheartening: Barnaby on the NBN
The Nationals have done their rural and regional constituent base a huge disservice by supporting a Coalition policy that would dismantle the Government's National Broadband Network. And its Queensland senator Barnaby Joyce knows this better than anyone.
Greens torpedo any chance of internet filter
Any hope that a returned Gillard Labor Government will implement mandatory ISP-level internet filtering has further diminished with the Greens rejecting the proposal as part of its cyber safety election policy
Gillard trumpets broadband health plan
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has pinned Labor's re-election hopes on a neatly woven narrative about the transformation of the Australian economy and delivery of government services that puts its National Broadband Network at the core of the final week of campaigning.
Gershon savings sold short: Experts
The Federal Government has plundered the mediocre savings of the Gershon Review of IT spending before the reviews recommendations had even been properly implemented, an international governance expert has charged.
Mainstream broadband lifts Labor fortunes
After a difficult start to the re-election campaign, Julia Gillard and Federal Labor are back on the front foot, and they can thank the stark policy choice being offered by the major parties on broadband for the leg-up.
Coalition calls in Feds on NBN costing leak
The Coalition has written to the Australian Federal Police asking it to investigate the leaking of Treasury department analysis that found an $800 million dollar hole in savings the Opposition claimed could be made from axing the National Broadband Network.
Abbott: 1Gb broadband is 'utterly implausible'
Opposition leader Tony Abbott has dismissed claims by the NBN Company that it will deliver broadband speeds of 1Gbps - ten times faster than the 100Mbps already promised - as an election ploy conjured by the Gillard government.
Labor now promises 1Gb NBN: Gillard
The Labor Government's National Broadband Network will deliver speeds ten times faster than originally planned at 1Gpbs, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said.
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