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Senator Lundy briefly discusses the NBN expansion of fibre to 93%

Senator Lundy briefly discusses the announcement of the NBN expansion of the fibre to the premises 100 Mbps network from 90% of the population to 93%.
TRANSCRIPT
Yesterday the Federal Labor Party announced the National Broadband Network would be going further than the 90% fibre to the premises.
They’ve now followed the advice of the implementation study and [...]

Press clipping: Politician Profiles: Senator Kate Lundy

Senator Lundy was interviewed by Computerworld for a profile piece on her thoughts around ICT:
Senator Kate Lundy has become known in the technology community as a fierce advocate of government engagement and Gov 2.0, pushing for support of many of the recommendations made last year by the Government 2.0 Taskforce, and pre-empting the declaration of [...]

Speech notes from Google Election 2010 Launch

Senator Lundy spoke at the Google Australia Election 2010 launch, alongside other panelists, Paul Fletcher MP and Senator Scott Ludlam. Her speech notes are below, and all video content from the event is available at http://www.youtube.com/australiavotes.
If the first incarnation of the internet saw the democratisation of information and made us all publishers, the second incarnation [...]

Humphries turns his back on Gungahlin: Liberals to abolish NBN

Today Senator Humphries was forced to concede that the Liberals, if elected to government, will abandon the NBN rollout in Gungahlin with no alternative plan to deliver high speed broadband. Last week Liberal Senator Gary Humphries was trying to claim credit for the announcement that Gungahlin is one of the early rollout sites for the [...]

Fact sheet about the early NBN rollout to Gungahlin

NBN, bringing real broadband to the Gungahlin area
Fact sheet
NBN Co are embarking upon the next phase of the fibre to the premises (FTTP) broadband rollouts across Australia, and Gungahlin is one of 14 new sites chosen to have the fibre Internet rolled out mid next year.
Why Gungahlin:
NBN Co looked at a range of criteria which [...]

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 sites for [...]

OLPC Oceania update and chance meeting with Gartner’s Andrea Di Maio

Some days just work out right. Last Thursday week was one of them.
Early in the day, I bumped into Glenn Archer, the CIO of DEEWR whilst walking in Parliament House who mentioned Andrea Di Maio was in Canberra for the day. I asked Glenn if he could ask whether we could arrange a meeting at [...]

My thoughts on an opt-in filter

As I have indicated in several blog posts, I am working to change the Internet filtering policy to better achieve the policy goals of protecting children through empowering and educating parents. I have spoken before about the two key amendments I am advocating, ie: a) protect in legislation the availability of an unfiltered, open Internet [...]

Declaration of open government imminent

Article in Computerworld:
The Federal Government will soon act on one of the Government 2.0 Taskforce’s central recommendation in declaring an open government, according to Labour Senator, Kate Lundy.
Full article at http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/348084/declaration_open_government_imminent/

Opposition NBN stance is ‘absolutely appalling’: Lundy

News story from the National Broadband Network News:
Senator Lundy “All of my critiques through my Opposition years was ‘you can do it better’. There should be better competition, there should be fatter pipes, and there should be less pair gain systems. That character of the debate has been suddenly flipped on its head because the [...]