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NBN Policy

Copperart NBN is new Labor target

Shadow Communications Minister Jason Clare is framing an election argument around the government’s “Copperart version of the NBN” as damaging leaks about the slow roll-out, cost over-runs and poor...

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...

Infrastructure Aust urges NBN push

Posted on   |  by James Riley
In the latest Australian Infrastructure Plan it was easy to be distracted by its recommendations on privatising assets, including the NBN. It wasn’t the only reference in the plan....

Fifield: The lost child of Cabinet

Posted on   |  by Michael Sainsbury
Close your eyes and imagine, if you will, that Tony Abbott is still Prime Minister and is busy executing his groundbreaking innovation strategy. Then imagine that he has a...

NBN leadership a roll-out problem

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The embattled National Broadband Network company has lost yet another senior executive with its chief operating officer, former Telstra executive Greg Adcock, leaving after less than two years. Mr...

ICT key to agri-tech advances

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The long awaited Agricultural Competitiveness White Paper does a far better job than the Government’s earlier Industry Innovation and Competitiveness Agenda in recognising the role for ICT innovation in...