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  • NSW razor broadly misses IT spending

    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.

  • Red Hat: Crisis to boost open source

    The global economic crisis would provide a boost for open source software, Red Hat chief executive Jim Whitehurst claimed during a visit to Sydney this week.

  • NSW schools cashed up in AU$772m tech bonanza

    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.

  • Broadband network big ticket item in budget

    Senator Conroy says the proposed national broadband network will rival the Snowy Mountains hydro scheme in terms of scale and significance.

  • Queensland firies get $3m to redo alarm network

    The Queensland government has set aside AU$3 million in its budget to replace the fire alarm monitoring service for over 6,500 buildings such as hospitals, schools and shopping centres.

  • Conroy gives rural ISPs guidance on bush broadband

    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.

  • Welfare card won't morph into Access Card: Labor

    The Federal government has insisted that a new Centrelink debit card is not a precursor to a national ID card, but a policy expert has claimed that it maintains some similarities to the previous government's failed Access Card.

  • AU$49 billion man recruited by Tanner's Razor Gang

    Sir Peter Gershon, the procurement expert responsible for slashing 23 billion (AU$49 billion) from the UK government's budget through ICT efficiency reviews has been recruited by Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner for the Federal government's budget Razor Gang.

  • Intel launches next-generation Classmate PC

    Intel launched its second-generation Classmate PC on Thursday at the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai.

  • Q&A: Acting Queensland CIO, Alan Chapman

    Alan Chapman, acting CIO for the Queensland government talks to ZDNet.com.au about what makes his job unique, technologies on the way and the biggest threat to his organisation.

  • Vic "Tcard" AU$1 billion over budget, 15 months late

    The introduction of a new public transport smartcard for Melbourne will cost more than AU$1 billion, and is running 15 months behind schedule according to a report, but the Victorian government will persist with the project.

  • Labor digital education revolution about to COAGulate

    The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) is currently undertaking an audit into the state of IT in Australian secondary schools, with comments made by Acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard yesterday confirming that the "digital divide" is a real phenomena.

  • Labor: Broadband central to Australia 2.0

    Labor leader Kevin Rudd has reinforced the importance of a high-speed national broadband network, describing it as the missing cog in the nation's future economic wheel.

  • Budget: Few crumbs for ICT industry

    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.

  • SOA top of mind but not top of budget: IDC

    While IT executives can see the benefits of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach, minimal budgets and a lack of mature technology are holding back adoption, according to the research house.

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