The Australian Government's Building on IT Strengths (BITS) programs have successfully boosted Australian jobs, revenue and exports, according to an independent evaluation conducted last November.
The federal Opposition has blasted as inadequate the reduced funding allocated by the Government to Internet watchdog NetAlert.
The Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) budget was cut back five percent by the Treasurer Budget day; that money has been earmarked for filling defence funding "black holes".
The New South Wales government has outlined its IT budget initiatives with education being given the lion's share of its technology purse.
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The government has extended its subsidy to help rural Australians establish a broadband connection by four years.
The director of SETI@home - a high profile distributed computing experiment to find extraterrestrial life - has made a plea to his users for help in securing funding, despite denying late last month that the project was facing a cash crisis.
In this age of high-tech wizardry and wireless technology, the Australian health industry is still stuck in a world of paper records. It's estimated that half a billion dollars would have to be spent to implement a system of electronic health records in Australia. The big question is, who will foot the bill?
The federal government has confirmed funding for the controversial health and welfare access card scheme in tonight's budget. Airport security, Centrelink's call centre and DIMIA are other winners.
Technology spending within the NSW Government appears to have largely escaped the razor in today's mini-budget, despite a slew of other spending cuts announced by Treasurer Eric Roozendaal.
Senator Conroy says the proposed national broadband network will rival the Snowy Mountains hydro scheme in terms of scale and significance.
The NSW state government handed down its 2008-09 Budget last night, with a surprise spend on video conferencing for schools, a boost to health tech outlay, and a pledge to tighten ICT capital expenditure.
South Australian police are spending AU$5.2 million over five years on an IT system to track criminal motorcycle gangs.
David Skellern, CEO of NICTA, said the Federal government's decision to ditch the AU$707 million Commercial Ready scheme a SME grants program that subsidised the costs of innovative projects will be a significant blow to innovation in Australia.
Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy has issued a new set of guidelines for ISPs servicing rural and regional Australia, on the back of the Federal government's decision to extend the Australian Broadband Guarantee as part of last Tuesday's budget.
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