The Australian Greens are concerned the public may be the real losers under the new National Broadband Network and are calling on the federal government to explain how it will protect end-users from price hikes, as tenders for the project close today. Read more »
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Kevin Rudd (KevinRuddPM) is now following your updates on Twitter.
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Optus is making rather heavy weather of its plans to erect mobile phone towers across the Clarence Valley.
First they found themselves being seen-off by Iluka residents in a skirmish over there, with the local doctor threatening to close his practice and leave if the tower went ahead. Read more »
The issue of a national mandatory ISP-level Internet filtering system being introduced in Australia is of more than passing interest to North Coast Voices and many others in rural and regional areas.
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AS Prime Minister of Australia Kevin Rudd has taken on a big task. Read more »
Monday 20 October
Senate Committee on Environment, Communications and the Arts.
Senator LUDLAM- In evidence that the department submitted to the select committee, you referenced a group called the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network, but there was not a great deal of detail as to what that network is, the make-up of the group, its activities and so on. I want to bring us around, I suppose, to a consumer focus or a user focus. Can you just fill us in on what that group is and what it will be doing? Read more »
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