Australian information and communications technology imports cost almost $20 billion in 2001-02 – twice as much as was spent on imported motor vehicles
The Coalition’s failure to encourage the development of Australia’s information and communications technology (ICT) industry is directly responsible for the huge size of the $14.4 billion ICT trade deficit in 2001-02, the Shadow [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2002
Coalition responsible for $14.4 billion ICT trade deficit
Rural & Remote
Generating Solutions for Improving Rural and Remote Communications in Australia.
Rural and Remote Communications 7th Annual Conference
Sydney
27 November 2002
Assessing the impact: implications of Telstra’s full privatisation in the bush
About a week ago I received an email that lamented the fact that the Coalition just doesn’t understand that it is not just voice telephony that [...]
The full sale of Telstra will be a disaster to the bush
Even if the recommendations from the Estens Inquiry were followed, the full privatisation of Telstra would still be a disaster for the bush, the Shadow Minister for Information Technology, Senator Kate Lundy said today.
Speaking at the 7th Annual Regional and Remote Communications Conference in Sydney, Senator Lundy said that a Telstra sell-off would lead to
A [...]
Coalition stands by as multinational does over local small businesses
While the Coalition has been happy to bend over backwards to support multinational information and communications technology (ICT) companies, it has not seen fit to do the same for local small businesses, the Shadow Minister for Information Technology, Senator Kate Lundy, said today.
Senator Lundy was told in a Senate Committee that Government officers chose not [...]
Public Forum on Illicit drugs and youth for pacific island families in the ACT
Senator Kate Lundy
Address to Potatala ‘a e Kolomu’a Network (PKN)
Public Forum
on Illicit drugs and youth for pacific island families in the ACT.
24 November 2002
I would like to thank the Potatala ‘a e Kolomu’a Network (PKN) for inviting me to be a part of this important forum. I would like to begin by congratulating PKN on [...]
Minister must allow ATSIC and Sports Commission to work together for Indigenous sport
Labor believes it is essential that ATSIC’s Indigenous Sport Program (ISP) continue as a venture managed jointly by ATSIC and the Australian Sports Commission (ASC).
Recent calls from senior figures within ATSIC to axe the ISP would have significant negative impacts on Australian Indigenous communities.
Involvement in sports programs have clearly helped ATSIC achieve some of its [...]
Australia must look beyond the Telstra debate
While the Coalition has been blinded by its obsession with the privatisation of Telstra, Labor has focused on developing an information and communications technology vision to give Australia the edge in a global economy, the Shadow Minister for Information Technology, Senator Kate Lundy said today.
In a keynote address at the “Future ISP” conference in Sydney, [...]
If not T3, then what?
Future ISP 2002
The Forum for the Independent ISP
If not T3, then what?
Sydney
22 November 2002
Every fifty years or so, there comes along an innovation that makes a profound difference to the way people live their everyday lives.
It’s not always apparent at the outset just how important or widespread the impacts of these new technologies are going [...]
Active Australia ditched by the Howard Government
Sport Minister Rod Kemp revealed in Senate Estimates last night that the Government is ditching Active Australia, the division within the Australian Sports Commission charged with making Australians more physically active and healthy.
The Government is replacing Active Australia with a new, broader division called Ausport reflecting their all-consuming interest in elite sport – at the [...]
Telstra’s high-speed internet spend just another stunt
Telstra’s promise to throw a bit of money at internet connectivity is a feeble attempt to pacify complaints from long-suffering victims of the telco’s neglect, the Shadow Minister for Information Technology, Senator Kate Lundy, said today.
“After questioning Telstra in Senate Estimates, I discovered that the paltry offering is scarcely more than a publicity stunt consisting [...]
