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 Clippings
Q&A with Senator Kate Lundy
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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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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Twitterers ungather to air views
IT’S A CONFERENCE, but not as we know it.
The Australian National University hosted the third Canberra BarCamp yesterday, an unorthodox gathering of like-minded souls brought together by a thirst for knowledge, to meet new people and chow down on sandwiches.
”We’ve got a real story going on at the moment we’ve got geeks eating salad,” unorganiser [...]
A Capital Talk Tri Talk Tech: Episode Six – Interview with a Senator
Podcast interview with “A Capital Talk Trio”:
In this episode we talk to Senator Kate Lundy, and her senior policy advisor Pia Waugh (who’s also well known in the Australian and International free-and-open-source-software community).
We should note that Senator Lundy’s comments about the Clean Feed were made before the report was released and the government’s plan to [...]
Bikers bring Christmas joy
Mr Major thanked Assembly members Mary Porter, Meredith Hunter and Brendan Smyth and senator Kate Lundy for putting political preferences aside to support the day.
