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ICT Industry Development
Government Online and IT Outsourcing

Content regulation (including interactive gambling)
Internet connectivity and broadband
Women in IT
Security, Privacy and Encryption
Cyberdemocracy
Y2K

ICT  industry development 

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15 September 2004 - Labor's ICT Industry Development Policy and E-Australia: Labor's National Information Policy (ALP web page)

bullet 31 August 2004 - Coonan Dishonest in Relation to Incubators
bullet20 August 2004 - Howard / Costello Government promotes IT off-shoring
bullet4 August 2004 - Howard Government vulnerable on Local Content
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4 August 2004 - Local Content, IT, Intellectual Property & the FTA

bullet31 May 2004 - Labor joins ACS's call for action on IT off-shoring
bullet6 May 2004 - Howard Government’s 11th hour BITS rescue
bullet5 May 2004 - Howard Government Minister sings to the big end of town’s tune
bullet5 April 2004 - Howard must appoint new IT and & Arts Minister
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10 March 2004 - Egg on Humphries face as Howard follows Latham lead on NOIE

bullet27 January 2004 - NOIE’s nine lives have run out
bullet 16 January 2004 - Humiliating Backdown for Costello On Telstra IT Jobs
bullet15 January 2004  - Howard Government IT outsourcing debacle spiralling towards a $1 billion-dollar blow-out
bullet 15 January 2004 - Costello Must Come Clean on Telstra IT Outsourcing
bullet 14 January 2004 - Telstra's 450 IT Jobs Slash Not in the National Interest
bullet17 November 2002 - Another $14.4 billion ICT deficit
bullet12 November 2003 - $160 M of Government ICT contracts lost to local industry
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30 October 2003 - BITS Incubators start to fall - but where is the new Minister?

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29 September 2003 - Alston: Three strikes and you’re out

bullet26 September 2003 - Alston abandons Framework for the Future
bullet 25 September 2003 - Alston takes another swing
bullet9 September 2003 - Telstra does it again on broadband access
bullet4 September 2003 - BITS program has created 757 new jobs…but Alston wants to axe it
bullet3 September 2003 - Coalition advocates sending local jobs overseas
bullet13 August 2003 - Industry body joins Labor's call for ICT industry action
bullet23 July 2003 - Coalition flicks ICT procurement problems to SMEs to solve
bullet8 July 2003 - What happens after incubation?
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24 June 2003 - The case for ICT industry development: Australia’s “stagnating” adoption of ICT

bullet19 June 2003 - Coalition’s response to two-year-old report means nothing for IT small businesses
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14 May 2003 - ICT gets nothing from the 2003 budget

bullet 16 April 2003 - Alston missing in action as Nelson hacks into ICT university places
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15 April 2003 - PM must rule out 'Paris option' for Alston

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15 April 2003 - Alston’s policy message to ICT industry: Would the last company to leave please turn out the lights?

bullet2 April 2003 - Coalition uses sneaky deals to abandon ICT industry development
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27 March 2003 - Local industry loses out to Government IT Outsourcing – Report

bullet26 March 2003 - Seven reports in seven years:  Alston’s last chance
bullet11 March 2003 - Senator Alston continues head-in-the-sand approach to ICT industry
bullet21 February 2003 - Alston in a corner over Coalition inaction
bullet21 February 2003 - Alston defence of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) employment figures full of holes
bullet11 February 2003 - Alston abandons small business
bullet 17 January 2003 - The time for talk is over - Minister Alston, what is happening with the Framework for the Future Committee and the Broadband Advisory Group?
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13 December 2002 - Vital venture capital legislation finally emerges from Coalition black hole

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29 November 2002 - Coalition responsible for $14.4 billion ICT trade deficit

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26 November 2002 - Coalition stands by as multinational does over local small businesses

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22 November 2002 - If not T3, then what? Speech at 'Future ISP 2002' Sydney

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15 November 2002 - Venture Capital legislation finally emerges from Coalition black hole

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9 October 2002 - 11.2% drop in ICT jobs will not concern the Coalition

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3 October 2002 - Alston succeeds with “Consumers not Producers” policy

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23 September 2001 - Australian IT&T Deficit grows, and Alston doesn’t care

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19 September 2002 - 35% decrease in IT&T profits rings alarm bells - but is the Coalition listening?

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5 September 2002 - Investment opportunities diminished by Coalition ICT policies

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26 August 2002 - Coalition urged to act on photonics opportunity

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13 August 2002 - Coalition must not ignore ICT industry development

bullet7 August 2002 - Australia must nurture innovative industries
bullet26 July 2002 - Coalition’s lack of ICT policy vision gives companies no reason to stay
bullet19 July 2002 - Coalition and ICT immigration - they’re on the wrong track
bullet16 July 2002 - The Coalition must develop an ICT employment strategy
bullet3 July 2002 - Abbott’s knee-jerk response to ICT figures
bullet24 June 2002 - Coalition vague on ICT procurement assistance for SMEs
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22 May 2002 - Senator Lundy welcomes announcement of ICT Centre of Excellence

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20 May 2002 - ICT Industry gives Coalition’s Budget an “F”, as Alston disappoints

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17 May 2002 - Alston’s Department skims $1.5 million from ICT Centre of Excellence

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16 May 2002- Coalition is confused: what is ICT?

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16 May 2002 - Coalition covers up impact of ICT trade deficit

bullet14 May 2002 - ICT ignored; NOIE knee-capped
bullet7 May 2002 - Government fails local IT SMEs – again
bullet7 May 2002 - Coalition’s outsourcing policies are neglecting ICT job creation
bullet26 April 2002 - Coalition throws cold water on ICT start-ups
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16 April 2002 - Government should be a smart IT buyer

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26 March 2002 - Alston admits ICT ignorance

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23 January 2002 - Stop dithering on share option plans, Minister Alston

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20 January 2001 -  First the ‘blip’, now the ‘glitch’ for tourism industry

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14 October 2001 - DMO move another blow to Canberra.

bullet9 August 2001 - Regional IT jobs claim exposed as a sham
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2 July 2001 - Knowledge Nation Taskforce Report

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31 May 2001 - Redfern Photonics boost for ICT sector

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bullet16 March 2001 - Desperate Libs fleece IT sector
bullet15 March 2001 - IT Outsourcing multinationals make money by providing poor service
bullet8 February 2001 - Rattled Richard
bullet7 February 2001 - Credibility nose-dive as Alston manipulates IT Outsourcing industry development
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23 January 2001 - Coalition backs multinationals over small Australian IT businesses

bullet2 November 2000 - Industry Development stifled by Coalition’s IT outsourcing program
bullet11 October 2000 - Minister’s claim of NOIE ‘boost’ merely window-dressing
bullet3 October 2000 - Business and academic leaders have little confidence in Coalition
bullet29 September 2000 - Industry Development Project Register helps multinationals get more government work
bullet14 September 2000 - Howard Government Wastes Opportunities On New Economy
bullet27 July 2000 - Information management for a knowledge society
bullet30 June 2000 - Australian Entrepreneurs win Global Entrepreneur Challenge
bullet9 June 2000 - Brand and bluster all that’s left of NOIE
bullet30 May 2000 - IT outsourcing a significant contributor to decline in Aussie IT&T
bullet30 May 2000 - Massive decline in Australia’s IT&T manufacturing capability
bullet11 May 2000 - Alston wants Australia to be the global village idiot
bullet25 February 2000 - Alston just doesn't get IT
bullet24 November 1999 - Urgent intervention required to enforce industry development commitments of IT outsourcing contracts
bullet22 November 1999 - Audit office steps in as credibility of the IT Outsourcing Program plummets
bullet6 November 1999 - Senator Lundy delivers closing address to the Information Outlook Conference:   Funding Innovation in the Knowledge Nation
bullet14 October 1999 - Minister stalls the IT Engine
bullet28 May 1999 - Alston’s half-baked IT pie loses big slice to Minchin
bullet9 April 1999 - Discriminatory outsourcing imperils Aussie innovators
bullet29 March 1999 -  Senator Alston: poacher turned gamekeeper
bullet29 March 1999 - Alston misses the mark…again
bullet12 March 1999 - Jobs and opportunities lost for innovative Australians
bullet2 October 1998 - Alston rhetoric has no bearing on facts: IT&T industry set to lose under GST

Government Online and IT outsourcing

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15 September 2004 - Labor's ICT Industry Development Policy and E-Australia: Labor's National Information Policy (ALP web page)

bullet1 September 2004 - Labor moves on Open Standards and Open Source Software
for Government IT
bullet31 May 2004 - Labor joins ACS's call for action on IT off-shoring
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3 March 2004 - Howard Government fails internet service audit test

bullet17 February 2004 - Department wastes $3M administering a $3M fund
bullet15 January 2004  - Howard Government IT outsourcing debacle spiralling towards a $1 billion-dollar blow-out
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4 December 2003 - DCITA’s $4 million web site down for 24 hours: still waiting… waiting…

bullet12 November 2003 - $160 M of Government ICT contracts lost to local industry
bullet12 November 2003 - Howard Government obfuscates scrutiny of ICT expenditure
bullet23 July 2003 - Coalition flicks ICT procurement problems to SMEs to solve
bullet 4 July 2003 - Coalition only paid lip-service to Open Source alternative
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29 May 2003 - Alston’s dot.com fantasy: $4M is just the start

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14 April 2003 - Australian company wins Government IT outsourcing contract! - Am I dreaming? Pinch me!

bullet7 April 2003 - Senator Alston must take responsibility for his department
bullet 3 April 2003 - $4 million = a house in Toorak or a Government website?
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24 February 2003 - ACCC investigation into Telstra’s contract tactics welcome

bullet 18 February 2003 - E-procurement - alternatives and barriers to entry
bullet 17 February 2003 - NOIE Open Source seminar must be backed up with action
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26 November 2002 - Coalition stands by as multinational does over local small businesses

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OASITO and the Health Group Tender - Speech

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7 November 2002 - Government: Open source the key to security and innovation

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E-Government:  Serving the 21st Century Citizen

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5 November 2002 -  Fahey finally tells the truth: tendering process for Health’s IT Outsourcing Program was without integrity

bullet1 July 2002 - Can ATO pass electronic lodgement test this time around?
bullet1 July 2002 - Coalition too slow to develop online security
bullet6 May 2002 - Reckless IT outsourcing promises come back to haunt Coalition
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16 April 2002 - Government should be a smart IT buyer

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14 March 2002 - Alston abandons IT outsourcing industry development framework for SMEs

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27 September 2001 - Tax Office outsourcing problems exposed

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30 May 2001 - The Future of IT Outsourcing in Australia

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28 May 2001 - $31 million for IT consultants and contractors

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23 May 2001 - Nail in coffin for flawed IT Outsourcing Program

bullet24 April 2001 - Coalition finally admits fouling up IT industry development
bullet16 March 2001 - Aussie IT companies miss out under Fahey's failed Outsourcing 
bullet15 March 2001 - IT Outsourcing multinationals make money by providing poor service
bullet8 February 2001 - Rattled Richard
bullet8 February 2001 - OASITO’s arrogance aimed at protecting Minister
bullet7 February 2001 - Credibility nose-dive as Alston manipulates IT Outsourcing industry development
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6 February 2001 - Coalition cover-up continues on IT outsourcing

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31 January 2001 - Centrelink decision an embarrassment for Fahey

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24 January 2001 - Fahey’s office fails to answer questions about $17 million payment to 

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19 January 2001 - Truss must come clean on AQIS computer crash

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17 January 2001 - Survey shows Government incompetence resulted in inflated industry costs

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17 January 2001 - Who will clean up Fahey’s mess, Mr Howard?

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15 January 2001 - Humphry Review exposes IT industry frustration with Coalition

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15 January 2001 - Joint Press Release Howard must sack Fahey

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15 January 2001 - Howard must sack Fahey

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14 January 2001 - Fahey plays pathetic hide and seek games with damning IT report

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13 January 2001 - IT Outsourcing Review:  OASITO sacked, and Fahey should follow

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9 January 2001 - IT Outsourcing may be scrapped.

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3 January 2000 - Humphry Review into IT Outsourcing must be made public

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20 December 2000 - Humphry Review into IT Outsourcing must be made public immediately

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4 December 2000 - Fahey, OASITO to proceed with Science agencies IT outsourcing

bullet29 November 2000 - Labor initiates Senate inquiry into failed IT Outsourcing Program
bullet29 November 2000 - Fahey’s mandatory sentencing for Commonwealth agencies
bullet29 November 2000 - Savings? Did we say savings? OASITO admits savings not mandatory for IT Outsourcing
bullet28 November 2000 - IT Outsourcing Industry Development reports being kept secret
bullet28 November 2000 - IT Outsourcing company Advantra fails to meet Industry Development deadline
bullet24 November 2000 - IT Outsourcing "Group 11" set to proceed, regardless of Humphry Review outcomes
bullet21 November 2000 - IT Outsourcing review: Coalition allows just 3 weeks for submissions
bullet15 November 2000 - Fahey’s Outsourcing review still reeks of cover-up
bullet9 November 2000 - Labor to initiate Senate inquiry into IT Outsourcing Program
bullet8 November 2000 - Transcript of Interview RE: IT Outsourcing
bullet7 November 2000 - Fahey finally admits IT outsourcing in disarray
bullet2 November 2000 - Industry Development stifled by Coalition’s IT outsourcing program
bullet1 November 2000 - $91 million paid to outsourcing consultants
bullet12 October 2000 - Fahey must be accountable for IT outsourcing debacle
bullet25 September 2000 - Telstra implicated in Group 5’s outsourcing failings
bullet11 September 2000 - Fahey’s IT Outsourcing report card sees five out of five ‘FAILS’
bullet6 September 2000 - It’s confirmed: no savings in Fahey’s IT Outsourcing Program
bullet29 August 2000 - Government must exclude Science Agencies from failed IT Outsourcing Program
bullet28 August 2000 - Vendor penalties highlight flaws in Coalition’s IT Outsourcing Program
bullet23 May 2000 - Health officials do a Gosper, courtesy of IBM
bullet6 March 2000 - IT outsourcing costing millions as flawed government program stalls
bullet8 February 2000 - OASITO's bungle is IBM's gain
bullet20 October 1999 - IT outsourcing creates ‘few winners and many losers’ according to Government Report
bullet9 August 1999 - IT outsourcing damage control
bullet9 June 1999 - Outsourcing failure means success, according to Minister
bullet8 June 1999 - Savings a figment of Fahey's fiscal imagination
bullet1 June 1999 - Secret sanctions negotiable under outsourced IT contracts
bullet18 April 1999 - Coterie of costly consultants deny Aussie IT firms a fair go
bullet28 March 1999 - Credibility of IT outsourcing program shattered
bullet12 March 1999 - Tax Office IT Outsourcing places privacy at risk
bullet19 February 1999 - Fahey's faceless 30 help make multi-million-dollar decisions
bullet20 January 1999 - Fahey should act on ‘Bluesheet’ revelations
bullet2 October 1998 - Nightmare on IT street
bullet12 June 1998 - Canberra region loses out through Fahey foul-up
bullet5 June 1998 - Fahey goes to ground on IT outsourcing foul-up
bullet15 May 1998 - Bipartisan Senate Contracting Out report contradicts Government
bullet5 March 1998 - Piggybacking a feature of DEETYA IT tender
bullet5 March 1998 - Department of Finance exempts itself from competitive tendering rules - again
bullet5 March 1998 - CLUSTER 3: Big spin on industry development, Privacy neglected

Internet connectivity and broadband 

bullet 10 August 2004 - Senate Inquiry says get Telstra out of Foxtel
bullet 5 August 2004 - Senate Australian Telecommunications Network Inquiry Report
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29th June 2004 - Digital divide only a concern if someone else pays….

bullet20 May 2004 - Labor, Gungahlin, Dunlop residents force communications improvements
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12 May 2004 - Public internet access suffers across Australia

bullet2 April 2004 - Implementation of so-called “broadband strategy” full of holes
bullet 29 March 2004 - Speech: No sale for Telstra
bullet 5 March 2004 - Speech ATUG 2004: Broadband Competition
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27 February 2004 - Telstra's Big Pond a Big Con for Competition

bullet 26 February 2004 - Broadband Country-City Divide Widens
bullet13 November 2003 - Consumers lose as Telstra slows ADSL to protect Foxtel
bullet4 November 2003 - Besley commitment siphoned off to pay for Estens commitment
bullet 3 November 2003 - Victims of Telstra email pain get a measly $12.50
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28 October 20023 - Telstra still deploying broadband-blocking technology

bullet2 October 2003 - Future-proofing a scam: Telstra Inquiry
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26 June 2003 - Broadband Competition Inquiry gets Senate tick

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25 June 2003 - More dollars won’t fix broadband

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25 June 2003 - Gungahlin telephony moves from backwater to average

bullet 23 June 2003 - Labor initiates broadband Inquiry
bullet20 June 2003 - Broadband growth rate mirrors Minister’s broadband interest - flat
bullet18 June 2003 - Telstra’s tactics push Australia down the global broadband rankings
bullet4 June 2003 - Alston mute as Telstra plays games with ADSL
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30 May 2003 - Gungahlin yet to emerge from broadband backwater

bullet27 May 2003 - $2 billion: the cost of Telstra’s neglect
bullet26 May 2003 - Alston and Telstra: working together to give you slower internet
bullet24 April 2002 - Alston caught napping as broadband project under-funded
bullet22 April 2003 - Local Libs just johnnie-come-latelies to Gungahlin’s broadband woes
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25 February 2003 - ACCC investigation into Internet interconnection inequities inspires hope

bullet 24 January 2003 - Rural and Regional Australians are entitled to broadband
bullet 22 January 2002 - Broadband: Government must commit to timeframe
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12 December 2002 - It may be Christmas time, but Alston wouldn’t know a pair gain from a pear tree

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12 December 2002 - Errors in Telstra’s ADSL processes disadvantage customers and competitors

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9 December 2002 - Telstra’s air pressure deficiencies

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6 December 2002 - Telstra under pressure about cable pressure

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27 November 2002 - The full sale of Telstra will be a disaster to the bush

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27 November 2002 - Speech - Rural and Remote Communications Conference

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22 November 2002 - Australia must look beyond the Telstra debate

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22 November 2002 - Speech at Future ISP 2002: If not T3, then what?

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21 November 2002 - Telstra’s high-speed internet spend just another stunt

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20 November 2002 - Telstra’s Internet services will never be up to scratch

bullet1 November 2002 - Telstra forced to come clean about pair gains
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2 October 2002 - Telstra admits: Network not future- proof - not now, not ever

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10 September 2002 - Broadband still out of reach for many Cairns residents

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19 August 2002 - Coalition Government will pay for Telstra’s poor internet speeds

bullet10 August 2002 - Government must stop Telstra from hijacking the Internet
bullet10 July 2002 - Telstra exploits captive market
bullet9 July 2002 - Telstra Sale: the Coalition will push ahead regardless
bullet25 June 20002 - Senate inquires into universal broadband access and role of public libraries in providing Internet access.
bullet18 June 2002 - Census internet figures indicate that the job is only half done
bullet3 June 2002 - Gungahlin residents tell of telecommunications divide
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29 May 2002 - 7.30 Report makes more Australians aware of Telstra Pair Gains

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27 May 2002 - Telstra finally 'fesses up – over 1 million Telstra customers affected by pair gain.

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15 May 2002 - Coalition abandons broadband internet

bullet30 April 2002 - The broadband divide - Telstra’s legacy
bullet29 April 2002 - The Broadband Divide - Keynote Address
bullet18 April 2002 - Labor welcomes another ACCC investigation
bullet5 April 2002 - Senator Lundy asks ACCC to investigate Telstra’s customer contempt
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26 March 2002 - Industry takes step forward in safe surfing

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14 March 2002 - Alston says it’s OK to keep ‘pair gains’ secret

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13 March 2002 - Hundred’s of Telstra Pair Gains victims air their grievances

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6 March 2002  - Telstra Gains, Consumers Lose, Taxpayers Pay

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1 March 2002 - Lessig’s lessons should not be lost

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28 February 2002 - Ziggy’s ankle-level view of the world commits Australia to a digital backwater

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27 February 2002 - Howard's IT piracy - plunders Knowledge Nation and contradicts Alston on broadband

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22 January  2002 - Opposition Condemns Telstra Internet Price Rises

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17 May 2001 - Taxpayers foot $12m bill for Telstra's neglect.

bullet3 August 2000 - Strong vision for the Internet central to a Knowledge Nation
bullet30 June 2000 - Local Initiatives Show the Way on Broadband
bullet28 June 2000 - Launch of the Australian parliamentary Internet Forum
bullet7 June 2000 - 140,000 rural Telstra customers miss out on service upgrade
bullet6 June 2000 - Household use of Information Technology reveals widening gulf between ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’
bullet21 October 1999 - Alston's commitment to net access for people with disabilities - just more hollow rhetoric
bullet20 August 1999 - Meet the information 'have-nots' of Australia's digital ghettos
bullet3 August 1999 - Bush connectivity still lagging - despite the RTIF hype
bullet10 April 1999 - Government networking the city, not the country
bullet22 March 1999 - Rural Internet access suffering
bullet26 November 1998 - On-line forum  to 'explore.cyberculture'
bullet26 November 1998 - On-line day will highlight the great Internet divide