Here is my annual ‘Community News’ letter for the residents of Canberra, which I sent out to the Canberra Senate electorate in June. It includes a brief overview of latest news and initiatives which affect the people of Canberra. This edition of ’Community News’ focuses on the 2009/10 Federal Budget and nation building infrastructure for economic stimulus. [...]
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Federal government ICT: boom or bust?
MIS The Scoop
presented by: Mark Jones
Posted: Thu 21 May 2009 8:23PM
The ICT industry criticised the Federal Budget for lacking more big ticket spending plans. And the big questions remain: Is Australia’s largest single marketplace growing or contracting? Why have some departments stalled ICT spending? The Scoop host Mark Jones is joined by Senator Kate Lundy, [...]
What’s in the 2009 budget for ICT?
ICT fared strongly in the 2009 budget with a number of portfolios announcing initiatives to complement the Government’s investment in a national broadband network. This was the theme of my recent presentation to CeBIT ‘09: policies that will really optimise the economic and social platform the nbn will provide in the future.
I was particularly pleased [...]
Razor gang’s High Court caveat
Labor senator Kate Lundy told The Australian she was concerned the Rudd Government’s razor gang would trim further funding from the High Court’s budget next year.
Culture on the chopping block
The Labor senator Kate Lundy urged the Government to adopt the report’s findings.
Funding cut hurts arts, institutions
Labor senator and committee member Kate Lundy last night accepted that the Government had not foreseen the impact of the cuts on small departments.
Manufacturing Must Get Attention in the Budget
Now is the time to invest in essential skills, innovation and freight infrastructure for Australian manufacturing.
Australian manufacturing is ailing under this Government. Between 2000 and 2004, 50,000 jobs have disappeared in manufacturing. Recent figures have shown that manufacturing growth continues to decline, now reaching record lows.
The trend in manufacturing exports is also on the way [...]
Training Australians First: Budget should include completion bonus for apprenticeships in the ACT
The Howard Government should introduce a $2,000 Trade Completion Bonus for Canberra’s traditional apprentices in the upcoming Federal Budget.
A Trade Completion Bonus is something the Howard Government can do immediately to help businesses in the ACT and surrounding region to get the skilled workers they need.
Skill shortages have ravaged ACT industries with traditional trades crying [...]
Budget fails to deliver to the ACT: Humphries left with egg on face
John Howard’s local Canberra mouth-piece has even more egg on his face with the Federal Budget doing very little for very few. This budget is about satisfying John Howard’s political needs, not the needs of ordinary Australians – and certainly not Canberrans.
The truth about the 2004 Federal Budget is that:
Around 75 per cent of all [...]
ICT gets nothing from the 2003 budget
Yesterday’s budget shows that the Coalition has no vision for the ICT sector and is not interested in creating high-wage, high-skilled jobs for the future.
There was not even any reference to any of the recommendations contained in either the Framework for the Future report, or the Broadband Advisory Group Report, which is further evidence that [...]
