Tag: Mitch Fifield

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Copyright reforms miss the mark

Startups and tech companies have been ditched from the government’s reforms to the copyright safe harbour scheme, in a move that advocacy group StartupAus says risks losing promising early-stage...

Zombie games report response

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The federal government will finally deliver its response to the “zombie” report on the Australian games development industry by the end of the year, more than 20 months after...

Spotlight put on net governance

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The controversial group tasked with managing the .au internet domain is under scrutiny as part of an upcoming Federal review of governance arrangements. Communications Minister Mitch Fifield announced a...

Govt quietly flags IP changes

Posted on   |  by Stuart Kennedy
The Turnbull government quietly slipped out its response to the Productivity Commission’s inquiry into intellectual property arrangements last Friday afternoon, supporting a recommendation to wipe out second level IP...

Telco security is the new frontier

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
The Telecommunications Sector Security Reforms (TSSR) have now passed the Senate after a bipartisan show of support for the legislation that formalises the telecommunications industry’s responsibility to protect their...

Telco sector’s new cyber regulation

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Federal Government has got new legislation through the Senate that will compel telcos to notify authorities when they make changes to their networks after a range of amendments...

The not so rosy micro-node rollout

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Labor is making political bacon from an admission by NBN Co that almost all of the 1423 micro-nodes planted on the NBN so far to help boost network speeds...

Zombie report gets a resurrection

Posted on   |  by Stuart Kennedy
A recommendation from a long buried Senate report to reinstate a Federal funding program for the local video games industry got a thumbs up from another parliamentary report this...

At the nexus of tech and media

Posted on   |  by Michael Sainsbury
In a rare attack of common sense that rolls back years of cozy jobs-for-the-boys ABC chair appointments, Malcolm Turnbull has continued his series of quiet wins in the battle...

Sugo stirs pot on virtual mobile

Posted on   |  by Stuart Kennedy
MNF Group chief executive Rene Sugo wants the federal government to change the rules around virtual mobile phone numbers, and says the resistance by at least one large telco...