The NBN Company is likely to withdraw a request for a "price shock mechanism" - which would allow it to increase prices for its wholesale services by up to five per cent above inflation - as being of little value, NBN Co chief executive Mike Quigley has told a senate committee.
NBN decisions 'driven by engineering': Conroy
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has rejected as "spurious" accusations that the just-announced NBN Company 12-month construction plan was an exercise in political pork barrelling.
Coalition NBN policy 'dangerous': Greens
As the NBN Company today released plans to roll-out its fibre network to nearly 500,000 homes in the next 12 months, the Australian Greens say Opposition leader Tony Abbott must now drop the Coalition plan to "demolish" the NBN if it is elected.
Feds scout for eHealth software partners
The National eHealth Transition Authority has issued its first calls for proposals from medical software providers wanting to build the Federal Government's new electronic health record standards into their products.
Reinecke: Unfinished business for Gershon
The major cost-saving goals outlined in the Federal Government's Gershon Report on technology procurement had largely been achieved, but securing longer term strategic objectives for the use of ICT in the public service required more work, an independent review has found.
Conroy survives gag; Mr X, Fielding on side
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has survived a gag order in the Senate that would have halted any consideration of NBN-related matters - and stopped the Minister even addressing the issue - until he tabled a series of documents related to the fibre roll-out.
Coalition seeks to gag Conroy, NBN debate
The Senate has demanded Communications Minister Stephen Conroy table further documents related to the National Broadband Network, including a complete version of the 'Red Book' departmental advice to the incoming government relating to the project.
Turnbull NBN cost study bill defeated
Shadow communications minister Malcolm Turnbull's private members bill seeking to force Government to conduct a cost benefit analysis of the National Broadband Network has been defeated in the lower house by a single vote.
Coalition demands NBN wages documents
The union workforce agreements signed with the NBN Company did not apply to the tens of thousands of contractors engaged in the construction of the national broadband network and would do nothing to stop a wages blowout on the project, the Coalition has warned.
No NBN Co plan until December: Conroy
The NBN Company business case will not be made public until next month, despite mounting pressure from the Opposition and the Greens for the release of the document.
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