Blog post by Andrea Di Maio on a meeting with Senator Lundy on Gov 2.0: Kate also showed a down-to-Earth appreciation of cloud computing hype and opportunities, proving once again that she is an incredibly switched on politician. It is quite clear that, while the political drive on open government and gov 2.0 remains important, [...]
Press Clippings
Press clipping: Open Source: democratising the internets
Article on the ABC blog: While the public at large may reside in ignorance of this global internet fuelled phenomenon affecting applications they use with such regularity, there are those in our nation’s capital like Jackson who are celebrating it this week with the Open Source Developers Conference. Held over five days at the ANU, [...]
Press clipping: In need of a game changer (The Australian)
Article by Sallie Don at The Australian about the Digital Culture Public Sphere In Sydney last Thursday, Arts Minister Simon Crean and Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs Kate Lundy invited the local digital arts sector to a public forum. In his speech to the forum, Crean made a case for how the sector [...]
Press clipping: Where arts and policy meet in the digital sphere (Crikey)
Where arts and policy meet in the digital sphere, article by Ben Eltham (Crikey): What is a “digital culture public sphere”, and why should we care? The government wants feedback on its National Cultural Policy. It will run out of Senator Kate Lundy’s office and will feed into Arts Minister Simon Crean’s policy brief as he [...]
Press Clipping: Kate Lundy receives ACS accolade
Press article by IT News: Senator Lundy pays tribute to ACS for her long-term interest in ICT. Dubbed as the “Senator that gets it”, Kate Lundy earned an honorary membership of the Australian Computer Society (ACS) as part of its ICT awards 2011 in Canberra last night. “There was no one more fitting than Senator [...]
Press Clipping: Gungahlin NBN work under way in October
Press clipping from the Canberra Times: Canberra’s long wait for high-speed internet delivered by the National Broadband Network will end today. The Gillard Government will announce that work on the optical fibre to the home network will begin in Gungahlin in October. NBN Co says after the first 3000 homes are connected, the network will [...]
Press Clipping: Tempers fray at Senate Estimates
ABC AM Radio show did a piece on Senator Estimates quoting Senator Lundy, Andrew Metcalfe and Senator Cash. PETER CAVE: Senators and government officials have again worked well into the night as they pore over details of the federal budget. One of the committees attracting the most attention has been grilling Immigration Department officials about [...]
