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Investing in local jobs and education
The Rudd Labor Government’s economic and infrastructure stimulus is supporting local jobs and the Canberra economy. Investments include:
$242.705 million for 257 halls and classrooms across the ACT’s public and private schools.
$28.68 million for the construction [...]
Seven ACT businesses have been awarded grants to set up work and family friendly arrangements in their workplace, under the Australian Government’s Fresh Ideas for Work and Family program.
The grants were awarded to the following ACT businesses:
$2,000 Agile Digital Engineering Pty Ltd Kingston
$3,000 Interaction Consulting Group Phillip
$8,250 Property Works Pty Ltd Phillip
$1,388 Provident Financial Planning [...]
Good evening, The Hon Maurice Williamson – Minister for Land Information; Colin MacDonald – Chief Executive of Land Information New Zealand; Steve Critchlow – Chairman of the Spatial Industries Business Association of New Zealand, Ladies and Gentlemen.
I am very pleased to be here at the launch of the ACIL Tasman report on the economic contribution [...]
Update: See all videos below and linked in the schedule below.
Update: The briefing paper for this Public Sphere topic is available for public editing from the 10th September till the 7th October 2009.
Update: The draft schedule is below and all information for the day (including a link for the video, but also the aggregated Twitter [...]
When you are flat out working across a number of fronts it is easy to lose sight of the wood for the trees. So a couple of weeks leave was a very good way to reflect on the whole landscape. The snippets of commentary about information management in both the public and private sector in [...]
Innovative small businesses in Canberra deserve a fair go in competing for government contracts, Senator Lundy said today following an Innovation and Procurement Forum organised in Canberra by the Churchill Club.
Federal Labor’s New Directions in Innovation, Competitiveness and Productivity includes a 10-point framework to guide Federal Labor’s approach to building a more innovative, more productive [...]
All of the small business representatives on a government committee set up to remove barriers to government contracts for small IT businesses have broken ranks and delivered an unprecedented independent report to Minister for IT, Senator Coonan.
This independent report differs dramatically from the sanitised report that is the ‘official’ conclusion of the ICT SME Joint [...]
The Howard Government has squandered an ideal opportunity to strengthen Australian manufacturing to drive future productivity gains and exports.
The manufacturing sector urgently needs support to boost skills training, encourage innovation, modernise transport infrastructure and build export markets. The Government has not adequately addressed any of these pressing priorities in the budget.
Most disappointing of all the [...]
While Telstra’s announcement of a new Telecommunication Exchange to be built at the Gungahlin Town Centre is welcomed, it should not be forgotten that this means Gungahlin residents are only moving from a broadband backwater to being able to access services that are available in most other metropolitan areas in Australia.
This is a step in [...]
Australian ICT small businesses seeking access to Federal Government contracts continue to be ignored, despite the Howard Government notionally supporting a recommendation from a Senate Committee to remove barriers that hamper their participation.
Almost two years after it was handed down, the Coalition today finally tabled its response to the Senate Finance and Public Administration References [...]
