Tag: Jason Clare

Carr rump proves hard to move

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Opposition leader Bill Shorten’s self-described ‘Dream Team’ of an expanded Shadow Ministry is a mixed bag for the tech industry. The elevation of Jim Chalmers to Finance and Michelle...

NBN moves onto uncertain ground

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Labor in opposition would continue to press for a rethink of the unpopular fibre-to-the-node NBN roll-out, with Shadow communications spokesman Jason Clare claiming the issue played a big part...

Turnbull: Give that man an onion

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The sight of Malcolm Turnbull rabbiting on at a media doorstop as if he had Tony Abbott’s hand up his back was a remarkable thing to behold. He should...

Epic overreach: NBN police raids

Posted on   |  by David Havyatt
The police raids on the office and homes of a Labor parliamentarian and staffer last night are unprecedented and outrageous. This is not how we do business in Australia....

Labor’s fight to highlight tech plan

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The war over who has the best policies to support innovation has yet to be fought tooth and claw by either side in this marathon election campaign, although Labor...

The tortured path of NBN’s journey

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The tortured journey of what could have been one of Australia defining infrastructure projects, a digital Snowy River project as someone once referred to it, is taking yet another...

Why Bill Shorten won’t get elected

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Bill Shorten and his team have a spring in their step and feel they have a whiff of a chance of rolling the Turnbull Government at the coming election....

Time is up on the Digital Economy

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Time has probably run out for the Turnbull Government to make good on its 2013 election promise to provide an update to the National Digital Economy Strategy. There had been...

Jason Clare taps a digital détente

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Jason Clare’s western Sydney electorate of Blaxland is in the Labor heartland, a seat once held by former Prime Minister Paul Keating. Its challenges are substantial, not least an...