Leaving the online world as an unregulated distribution medium actually "weakens all that is good about the internet," Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has told the Sydney Institute in a detailed defence of the Rudd Government's digital policy agenda.
Senate targets Conroy on NBN plan
The Senate's powerful standing committee on the Environment, Communications and the Arts will pursue details of the Government's $25 million implementation study into the National Broadband Network during estimates hearings in Canberra next month.
NBN one year on: Transformational or reckless?
One year after the Rudd Government's $43 billion National Broadband Network was announced, no customers have been connected to the optical fibre service, the public has no idea how much its superfast services will cost or when they will be delivered.
NBN Tassie: Conroy and the missing $100m
A $100 million "equity injection" into the NBN Tasmania Company earmarked to fund its Stage Three roll-out of fibre to major metropolitan areas has still not reached the company, nearly six weeks after it was announced by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy.
Better, Faster, Cheaper without NBN: Smith
The National Broadband Network was an "ill-conceived adventure" that had left poorly-served households in rural and regional Australia without a decent internet connection for two years longer than necessary, shadow communications spokesman Tony Smith says.
Coalition would halt NBN construction
The Coalition will take a fully-costed alternative broadband plan for Australia to the next election that is cheaper and makes greater use of mobile technologies. And it says it will not complete the construction of the Rudd Government's $43 billion National Broadband Network.
Carbon reduction targets for ICT: Tanner
The Rudd Government has applied a carbon reduction target to the Commonwealth's energy-intensive data centre operations for the first time, acknowledging its fast growing demand for information systems.
Govt data centres: Tanner takes control
Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner has centralised billions of dollars worth of technology purchasing power within the Department of Finance as part a sweeping changes to the way the Commonwealth manages its data centre operations.
Don't be a dick: G4C gamers get serious
With just two days remaining until polls open in the South Australian state election, the R18+ advocacy group Gamers4Croydon's plan to challenge Attorney-General Michael Atkinson for his safe Labor seat of Croydon is in full swing.
Greens harden resolve on NBN study
Stephen Conroy's handling of the National Broadband Network legislation was a case study in how not to run open and transparent government, Greens communications spokesman Scott Ludlam says.
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