Labor’s decision to shut down the National Office of the Information Economy (NOIE) as a savings measure is justified because the Howard Government has never been able to deliver an effective and efficient role for the Office despite the dramatic changes and challenges associated with the information economy. The National Office of the Information Economy [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2004
Humphries ‘Nation Building’ hypocrisy
Senator Humphries has clearly forgotten that it is his Government which has systematically attacked our national icons, stripping $8 million from the budgets of the National Gallery, the National Archives and the National Museum and with it 31 jobs in 2003-04 alone. It is the Howard Government which advocated the tearing apart of ScreenSound, the [...]
ScreenSound Saga Continues
I have finally had the opportunity to meet with the Australian Film Commission (AFC) after initially requesting the meeting five weeks ago at the height of the dispute. It has taken this long for the Arts Minister to approve this meeting. I requested the following of the AFC: Given staff concerns about the manipulation of [...]
Humiliating Backdown for Costello On Telstra IT Jobs
Peter Costello has been forced into a humiliating backdown over his comments regarding Telstra’s deal with IBM to send 450 Australian IT jobs to India. On Wednesday, Mr Costello said, “I think that wherever possible those jobs ought to be located in Australia. Telstra ought to look at the situation carefully, they have to [...]
Fight for ScreenSound far from over
Despite assurances given in December by the Howard Government that there would be an open and constructive discussion of the Australian Film Commission’s Directions paper, it would seem that the AFC is trying to limit and manipulate the consultation process with stakeholders and ScreenSound Staff. We have been advised that staff have been organised into [...]
The most recent count of the waste of taxpayer’s money as a result of the Howard Government’s IT outsourcing debacle is closing in on $1 billion dollars.
Peter Costello must stop playing the blame game and come clean on the Howard Government’s involvement in Telstra’s deal with IBM to send 450 Australian IT Jobs to India. Peter Costello’s musings on Telstra keeping jobs in Australia disguise the fact that the Government gave Telstra the green light to proceed with these plans months [...]
Howard Government IT outsourcing debacle spiralling towards a $1 billion-dollar blow-out
The most recent count of the waste of taxpayer’s money as a result of the Howard Government’s IT outsourcing debacle is closing in on $1 billion dollars. The Financial Review reported today the cost above the original contracts is around $750m over the life of the contracts. With several of the contracts still continuing this [...]
Telstra’s 450 IT Jobs Slash Not in the National Interest
Reports today that Telstra has struck a deal with IBM to send 450 local IT jobs to India are of serious concern. Telstra is majority publicly owned and still largely a monopoly. Its activities are at the heart of the Australian Information Technology sector. It makes around 90% of the profits in the Australian [...]
