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    Cockatoo Island has variously been a convict prison, reformatory, -industrial school" for wayward girls, shipbuilding centre and music festival venue. Now, if the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust has its way, the island -- the largest in Sydney Harbour -- will be reinvented as a -centre of innovation" for the information and communications technology industry.

  • US$30 billion US homeland security market opens up -- a little

    Despite announcing yesterday that the US$30 billion US homeland security sector is open to Australian technology suppliers, the Australian Trade Commission (Austrade) has admitted that suppliers face regulatory restrictions and stiff competition with companies from up to 60 other countries on the US government tender list.

  • CeBIT: Day One wrap

    CeBIT Australia 2007 kicked off yesterday with federal Communications minister Senator Helen Coonan saying that a thriving ICT industry was key to the country's economic growth.

  • JobWatch: Soft-skills win out in conflicting markets

    After months in the doldrums, internet IT job ads took an upward turn in May, growing by 1.6 per cent, a whisker ahead of the overall internet job ads.

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    The Howard government's federal budget handed down yesterday contained little joy for Australia's ICT industry and the development of a world class communications sector.

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  • The ICT labour market: Where agendas collide

    Companies want cheap labour, universities depend on international student dollars, industry needs key skills, and local graduates just want a job. Mark Wheeler investigates the drama playing out over the ICT labour market.

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    A robot that plays the Violin? ZDNet Australia visited NICTA's Neville Roach Laboratory to see what all the fuss was about. We also discover what other amazing things today's robots can do.

  • CeBIT Australia 2005

    CeBIT Australia, one of the region's leading ICT tradeshows for the business marketplace, is back again.

  • Conroy charts national broadband agenda

    The Australian Labor Party's ICT shadow minister wants a national fibre broadband network and enough skilled people to exploit it.

  • Beyond the barriers: What women want in IT

    Do women lack interest in IT, or is inadequate support and enduring stereotypes keeping them away?

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