I am watching the press conference of independent MPs Tony Windsor and Rob Oakshott. Tony Windsor has cited the importance of the Federal Labor commitment to the National Broadband Network to his decision to support a Gillard Labor Government. Rob Oakshott is also supporting a Gillard Labor Government. I am proud to be part of [...]
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Press clipping: NBN key to open government: Lundy
Article by Josh Taylor on ZDNet: Labor senator and technology advocate Kate Lundy has told a New Zealand conference that only high-speed broadband offered by the National Broadband Network will lead to a true open government in Australia. While Labor continues in its to attempts to woo the three rural independents into forming a minority [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. Please note, this fact sheet will be [...]
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 [...]
NBN Co announces Gungahlin to be in first round of mainland NBN sites
Senator Lundy discusses the announcement from NBN Co that Gungahlin will be amongst the first mainland sites for the National Broadband Network. Captions being processed, but will be ready soon. Transcript below. Transcript: I just thought I’d do this video to welcome the wonderful news that 3000 houses in Gungahlin to be accessed by the [...]
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 [...]
