Tag: NBN

The tortured path of NBN’s journey

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The tortured journey of what could have been one of Australia defining infrastructure projects, a digital Snowy River project as someone once referred to it, is taking yet another...

Why four ports are better than one

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Health care and how to fund it was a hot political topic last week. But only the week before NBN Co had been providing its own input, promoting telehealth...

Copperart NBN is new Labor target

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Shadow Communications Minister Jason Clare is framing an election argument around the government’s “Copperart version of the NBN” as damaging leaks about the slow roll-out, cost over-runs and poor...

Time is up on the Digital Economy

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Time has probably run out for the Turnbull Government to make good on its 2013 election promise to provide an update to the National Digital Economy Strategy. There had been...

Infrastructure Aust urges NBN push

Posted on   |  by James Riley
In the latest Australian Infrastructure Plan it was easy to be distracted by its recommendations on privatising assets, including the NBN. It wasn’t the only reference in the plan....

Fifield: The lost child of Cabinet

Posted on   |  by Michael Sainsbury
Close your eyes and imagine, if you will, that Tony Abbott is still Prime Minister and is busy executing his groundbreaking innovation strategy. Then imagine that he has a...

Malcolm Turnbull, Prime Minister

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The swearing in of Malcolm Turnbull as Australia’s 29th Prime Minister will inevitably bring the powerful technological forces that are re-shaping our economy into sharper focus. This was one...

Dalidakis: Vic’s newest Minister

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Less than a year after entering the Victorian Parliament as a newbie MP, Philip Dalidakis finds himself with a seat in cabinet as the State’s freshly-minted Small Business and...

ACCC eyes an NBN breakup sale

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Rod Sims said some fairly straight-forward things about affordability in the telecommunications sector and seems to have put noses out...