The House of Representatives Infrastructure and Communications Committee is to conduct an inquiry into the role and potential benefits of the National Broadband Network.

What appeared to be an attempt by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy to debate the Government’s controversial legislation to reform the telecommunications sector was shot down in flames in the Federal Senate today.

iTWire has gone to Canberra - permanently! In an Australian first, iTWire has become the only specialist technology publication with an office in the Parliament House Press Gallery.

Business software developer Oconics has won a $3.8 million contract to redevelop and support the Hansard system that publishes proceedings of  Australia’s federal parliament.  

With the much hyped Conficker payload day fast arriving, the last thing you want to hear is that the Parliamentary Network has been infected.

The House of Representatives of The Australian Federal Parliament has launched a new web site that, it says, "will give people access to more information about the House of Representatives than they have ever had before," including near real-time delivery of House proceedings.

The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee is urging the Government to introduce legislation to make banks pay for cybercrime coupled with a data security breach disclosure law for the UK.