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PM orders urgent national cyber security strategy review
Report in six months, but expert advisers and focus raise eyebrows.
Lambie lobs legislative grenade into Defence pay row
Threat to block all government legislation.
Fury over sub-inflation Defence pay deal approval
Abbott takes fire for not standing-up for diggers.
Abbott in firefight over Defence wage deal
Staff advocates and Opposition attack below inflation offer.
Utility computing cutting across sectors
By Rob Forsyth* The change of government at the Commonwealth level will have no impact on the general move by the public sector toward greater acceptance of Cloud platforms to…
Australian Industry Group hungry for high fibre broadband diet from Turnbull
By Julian Bajkowski New Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s key election promise to build cheaper National Broadband Network (NBN) faster using existing copper wire assets is picking-up initial static on the…
Coalition promises “virtually all” government services to be online by 2017
By Julian Bajkowski The Coalition has officially launched its eGovernment and Digital Economy policy for the election in a wide-ranging document that reaffirms a commitment centralised procurement of government computing…
Quigley calls time on NBN
By Julian Bajkowski The chief executive of the National Broadband Network Co., Mike Quigley has pulled the plug on his role at the top job of the $37.4 billion government…
Public service given mobile marching orders
By Julian Bajkowski Federal agencies and departments have been firmly put on notice by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy and Special Minister of State Mark Dreyfus QC that they are expected…