The NBN Company has named its first construction partners for the roll-out of fibre to the five so-called "first release" sites on the mainland, and have included Telstra in the mix as a preferred contractor.

Even as Queensland Premier Anna Bligh today issued the terms of reference for an inquiry in the state's CorpTech shared services vehicle, experts have warned that centralised technology services platforms can add an additional layer of complexity to operations and need specific governance strategies to be successfully managed.

Attorney General Robert McClalland has opened a new intelligence analysis centre in Canberra targeting organised crime backed by more than a billion dollars in information technology assets.

The Federal Government remained "absolutely committed" to introducing an internet filter and people should not confuse the just-announced review of the classification system as a policy back down, the Government's Senate leader has told ABC television.

Search giant Google has given written undertakings to Australia's privacy watchdog over its illegal collection of WiFi payload data and will conduct a Privacy Impact Assessment of the debacle to be handed to Privacy Commissioner Karen Curtis.

Search giant Google has welcomed government's planned review of Refused Classification category guidelines for internet content, but says the proposed mandatory internet filtering plan is still a bad idea.

The Gillard Government is a step closer to introducing mandatory filtering of Refused Classification content from the internet with the release of a set of accountability and transparency measures that will apply to the policy.

The early roll-out of the national broadband network to the northern Canberra suburb of Gungahlin is a victory for community advocacy, and ACT Senator Kate Lundy can rightly claim a large chunk of the credit.

The Greens have ratcheted up pressure on Prime Minister Julia Gillard to dump the controversial internet filtering policy ahead of the looming Federal election, saying it is one policy the ALP will regret taking into the poll.

With an election looming and its fate to be decided by the outcome, the NBN Company has unveiled 14 new mainland locations for early construction of fibre to the home networking infrastructure, and extension to five existing NBN sites.