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  • Labor lips sealed on Access Card future

    Despite having taken a non-committal stance on the Access Card during the election campaign, privacy advocates are hopeful that Labor will scrap the project now that it has entered government.

  • Schools and sick children get Web money boost

    Funding for an online network for chronically ill children and for Internet access in rural Victorian schools has been announced by Minister for Communications Helen Coonan.

  • Rudd promises a computer on every school desk

    Labor party leader Kevin Rudd has today promised a AU$1 billion fund to give every senior secondary school student in years 9 to 12 access to a computer at school.

  • Coalition ranked worst for privacy in election run-up

    The Coalition has been rated bottom among the major parties on commitment to privacy issues, according to a report released by the Australian Privacy Foundation.

  • Access Card killed off by election?

    The upcoming election could prove a fatal blow to the government's Access Card plans, with privacy advocates encouraging a voter rebellion on the issue and Labor promising to drop the project if elected to government.

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