Stephen Conroy boldly announced today – (as presented in this Delimiter article) – that information technology was not part of his portfolio. “Well, IT is not formally part of my portfolio – I’m broadband communications and the digital economy and Kim Carr looks after IT.” Interesting – and actually, he may be technically right. However, [...]
This post is specifically directed towards our new Prime Minister, Julia Gillard – who has recently joined Twitter, in line with previous Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd. Julia – (if I can call you that) – you are probably aware of the uproar in the community regarding your communications minister and his farcical mandatory internet filtering [...]
Stephen Conroy’s recent “spams and scams coming through the portal” gaffe has created quite some traction for the campaign against his idiotic plans for the internet. I was about to post a comment on a news article this morning, and discovered that The Age newspaper has come up with a clever plan to protect at [...]
In the current mandatory internet filtering debate, there is something that irritates me almost as much as the policy itself. It is the words coming from the Shadow Communications Minister, Tony Smith. What words? Exactly – he is almost completely silent. While Stephen Conroy runs rampant across Australia calling everyone who cares to challenge him [...]
Hopefully today, we on the anti-internet censorship side of the mandatory ISP filtering debate have learnt an extremely important lesson. There is no doubt that all of us wish to see the back of Senator Stephen Conroy, certainly from the communications portfolio at the very least. There has been much discussion since the rise of [...]
With the arrival of the Julia Gillard as the leader of the federal ALP, and hence her assumption of the Prime Ministership, many in Australia wait patiently for the almost certain cabinet reshuffle. With almost any change of political leader, as the saying goes, there is a “re-arranging of the deckchairs on the Titanic”. Technology [...]
In [yet another] major embarrassment for Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, the Privacy Commissioner has labelled the inadvertent Google Wi-Fi data collection bungle – (the same bungle that Conroy called “the biggest privacy breach in history”) – as “not so bad”. Google Wi-Fi Snooping Not So Bad: Privacy Commissioner There are several golden snippets from the [...]
The dust has settled a little since the surprise announcement yesterday of the $11Bn deal between the National Broadband Network Company (NBN Co), and Telstra, that will see the NBN rolled out using predominantly passive Telstra infrastructure. Namely, this is Telstra’s network of pits, ducts, and some cabling infrastructure. The deal will see the gradual [...]
Exactly which part of Stephen Conroy’s anatomy does Kevin Rudd have a hold of in this shot? Some have said yesterday’s Telstra / NBN Co deal has taken Telstra by the short and curlies. Maybe our Prime Minister has a different set of short and curlies in mind?
One of the biggest issues – particularly in terms of cost – for Australian ISPs at this time, is access to the local copper loop to provide DSL service. DSL services – (whether they be ADSL, ADSL2, SHDSL or any other xDSL based service) – cover the vast majority of all internet connections in Australia. [...]
