On Wednesday the 14th September, I’m going to be launching the Open Technology Foundation with the organisation’s new Chair, Dr Terry Cutler. The Open Technology Foundation has been a couple of years in the making, and is an initiative about supporting the use of open technologies, methods and standards across governments. They have participation at [...]
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R18+ adjournment speech – your comments
Tonight I presented an adjournment speech to the Australian Senate to table a petition and add my support for the introduction of an R18+ games classification in Australia. The speech is linked below, along with a few other useful references. I’d like to hear what you think. Kate Adjournment speech – http://www.katelundy.com.au/2010/11/23/adjournment-speech-supporting-an-r18-games-classification-in-australia/ Some additional useful [...]
Adjournment speech supporting an R18+ games classification in Australia
On November 23rd, Senator Lundy tabled a document which had almost 90,000 signatures from Australians all over the country supporting the introduction of an R18+ games classification. Below is the transcript of the speech. Please add your comments to the related blog post at http://www.katelundy.com.au/2010/11/23/r18-adjournment-speech-your-comments/ Transcript I rise today to advocate for the introduction of [...]
RSPT: the Facts v Liberal’s fiction
Update: A deal was secured on the 2nd July 2010. Yesterday morning on the regular political panel segment on ABC Canberra 666 Breakfast with Ross Solly, the extent of the Liberals shameless departure from the truth was exposed during the debate about the impact of Labor’s proposed resources super-profits tax (RSPT). I want to make [...]
Press clipping: Lundy: Gershon is good for SMBs
Article by David Ramli (ARN) “SMBs will benefit in the long term from the Gershon review, but no new powers will be given to the SMB IT advocate, according to Government Senator, Kate Lundy.” Click through to read the entire press clipping.
Supplier Advocate to Champion IT
Joint Media Release with Minister Kim Carr and Senator Kate Lundy Australia’s $98 billion IT industry is set to benefit, with an IT Supplier Advocate to be appointed to help secure more major IT contracts. The IT Supplier Advocate is part of the Rudd Government’s $8.2 million Supplier Advocate Program, which appoints respected industry figures [...]
Community News: February 2010
At the bottom of this newsletter is a survey where I want to hear your views. 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 [...]
Recommendations from ICT/Creative Industries Public Sphere up for endorsement
Public Sphere 3: ICT & Creative Industry Development is now finally closed for further edits. The recommendations are all in an online endorsement system called IdeaScale and we’d like to strongly encourage you to take a few minutes to endorse recommendations you care about. This process is a basic quality assurance of the ideas as [...]
Senator Kate Lundy introducing Public Sphere 3: ICT & Creative Industry Development
Senator Kate Lundy introducing her Public Sphere event on ICT & Creative Industry Development, hosted by Senator Kate Lundy on the 28th August 2009. Please note, we didn’t have the first few minutes of the talk. Our apologies. Transcript to follow. Uploaded by: Kate LundyHosted: vimeo
Public Sphere 3 wrapup
Update 2: all video content from the day is now online. Update: all the Public Sphere 3 data was also put into an interactive analysis tool by Palantir, which would be useful for people to look at. The Public Sphere on ICT & Creative Industry development last Friday drew together people from all over the [...]
