A range of local charities are set to benefit from the sale of a house in Franklin which is being built and auctioned for charity. Chief Minister Katy Gallagher today launched the Franklin Charity House project which involves a new charity partnership between the Land Development Agency (LDA) and the Master Builders Association of the [...]
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Capital Region Cancer Centre gets underway
Patients in the ACT are set to benefit as construction begins on the $44.6 million dollar Capital Region Cancer Centre. The centre will expand the services currently provided by The Canberra Hospital. The Capital Region Cancer Centre was one component of a $560 million program to improve access to cancer services and support in regional areas [...]
Warm welcome for initial NBN rollout in Gungahlin
Update: Please click through to my Fact sheet about the early NBN rollout to Gungahlin for further details. NBN Co today announced 19 locations for the next stage of its rollout on the mainland. These second release sites comprise 14 new locations including Gungahlin in the ACT. The announcement that Gungahlin is one of 19 [...]
The Cybersafety Joint Select Committee
This is a short video prepared by Senator Lundy to inform you about the Joint Select Committee on Cybersafety, how such committees work, and how you can contribute constructively to the consultation process. Transcript: Hi, I’m doing this video to tell you about the newly established Joint Select Committee on Cybersafety. This committee was a [...]
ICT Supplier Advocate off and running!
I just had an excellent meeting with Don Easter, the newly appointed supplier advocate for the ICT industry. Having had the privilege of announcing the Rudd Labor Government would be making the appointment when I was a CeBIT in Hannover earlier this year, it was wonderful to meet the person tasked with this critical role. [...]
Interview with Russ Gillon from ACT Broadband
Senator Lundy spoke to Russ Gillon from ACT Broadband to briefly discuss some of the issues facing ACT contstituents living in areas such as Gungahlin. This short video is an introduction to the problems, and you can also see a longer and more in-depth interview which goes into the history and impacts of this issue [...]
Audio from the ACCAN Government 2.0 Roundtable on Accessibility
Late last year, ACCAN ran a Government 2.0 Roundtable on Accessibility for People with Disabilities. We arranged to have the event recorded (audio only) and have now put all the recordings online. We have put the recordings up on a website called DotSub where people can contribute transcriptions, in the hope that people from ACCAN [...]
Youth videos up online
Late last year Minister for Youth Kate Ellis had an online and offline consultation about issues facing young Australians. As our contribution to this consultation, we went around the ACT and did interviews with young people in schools, work and universities. We had an enormous amount of content and were able to put some of [...]
How you can contribute to the Realising our Broadband Future forum
Senator Lundy explains how you can contribute online to the Realising our Broadband Future Forum, which is on next Thursday and Friday, the 10th and 11th December. The transcript is below and includes all links and additional information. UPDATE (7/12/09): All remote group contributions are listed at http://bbf.civictec.net/ UPDATE (31/12/09): All remote contributions closed soon [...]
NICTA Speech: Government 2.0 – Co-designing A Better Democracy
Senator Lundy recently gave a speech as part of the the Queensland NICTA Big Picture Seminar Series. It covered a lot of ground around Government 2.0, open government, policy and technical foundations for open government, some of her favourite case studies and more. Government 2.0: co-designing a better democracy Big Picture Seminar 30th October 2009 [...]
