On January 21 2010 the federal Minister for Housing, Tanya Plibersek, ACT Minister for Housing, Joy Burch, Senator Kate Lundy and Member for Fraser Bob McMullan were on site to turn the first sod for work commencing on an $11.65 million housing development in Braddon.
The project once complete will feature 42 one and two bedroom apartments and will [...]
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Turning of the sod for 42 social houses in Braddon
ACT recognition in National Work-Life Balance Awards
Senator for the ACT, Kate Lundy has today congratulated ACT small business Take A Break Away Pty Ltd, one of the 2009-10 national winners of the National Work-Life Balance Awards.
The Awards recognise businesses and government and community organisations that are leading the way in delivering policies, practices and initiatives that help people balance their work [...]
NBN urgently needed in Gungahlin
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NBN urgently needed in Gungahlin
Senator for the ACT, Kate Lundy and Gungahlin Broadband activist Mr Russ Gillon have today called for NBN priority in Gungahlin to get around Telstra’s broadband blockers.
Senator Lundy and Mr Gillon from ACT Broadband, a grass roots campaign highlighting the impact of broadband-blocking technologies (RIMs)* in Telstra’s copper network have [...]
Q&A with Senator Kate Lundy
Labor Senator, Kate Lundy, is one of the few Government politicians to go on record against the proposed mandatory ISP filter. ARN spoke with her about voting against it, the effects of Gershon on jobs and CeBIT 2010.
You have been lauded by many people opposed to the mandatory Internet filter because of your strong stance [...]
Press clipping: Lundy: Gershon is good for SMBs
Article by David Ramli (ARN)
“SMBs will benefit in the long term from the Gershon review, but no new powers will be given to the SMB IT advocate, according to Government Senator, Kate Lundy.”
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Supplier Advocate to Champion IT
Joint Media Release with Minister Kim Carr and Senator Kate Lundy
Australia’s $98 billion IT industry is set to benefit, with an IT Supplier Advocate to be appointed to help secure more major IT contracts.
The IT Supplier Advocate is part of the Rudd Government’s $8.2 million Supplier Advocate Program, which appoints respected industry [...]
Carr to appoint IT Supplier Advocate
Article in The Australian by Stuart Kennedy:
“AS it moves to splash $43 billion on a national broadband network the federal government will shortly appoint an IT Supplier Advocate to help smaller local firms deal with unreasonable barriers inside government agency IT procurement policies.”
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Government to appoint IT broker for SMBs
Story in CRN by Liz Tay about the imminent appointment of an IT Supplier Advocate:
“The Federal Government has announced that it would appoint an IT Supplier Advocate to help small to medium businesses (SMBs) win Government contracts.”
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Australian Curriculum trial schools in ACT
The Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, and the ACT Minister for Education and Training, Andrew Barr, today announced that 10 ACT schools will trial the new Australian Curriculum.
Ms Gillard made the announcement during a visit to Telopea Park School which will trial the year 8 history curriculum.
The draft Australian Curriculum was released yesterday in the [...]
Senator Lundy represents the Australian Government at CeBIT Germany
Kate Lundy, Senator for the ACT was invited to Hannover Germany to keynote at the world’s largest ICT event, CeBIT, and her talk will be streamed live over the Internet at 9:30pm today Canberra time.
“Connected Worlds” is the main topic at CeBIT 2010, and Senator Lundy will be speaking about how the Australian Government has [...]
