Yesterday Australia’s only national newswire, Australian Associated Press, was brought almost to a standstill by a cyber attack stemming from China, writes Isabelle Oderberg.
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How to fix Refused Classification online: start again
Stephen Conroy’s department published the 174 public submissions it received on the oddly Kafkaesque issue of improving the transparency of creating a secret censorship blacklist. It’s clear a whole new system is needed.
Rebates to TV networks just an ugly bribe
The three commercial TV networks, Seven, Nine and Ten, went weak at the knees in congratulating the Government for its decision on rebate for licence fees. Can anyone say “election year”?
Conroy tells movie industry, ISPs to kiss and make up
After last week’s Federal Court win for internet service provider iiNet, the movie industry was looking to the government to help them out. But the government has told it to sort out its own problems.
The ABC heavies and their $100,000 European vacation
While we cannot afford any new programs or production staff, we continue to send the senior executives on unnecessary and overpriced overseas junkets, writes ABC insider ‘David’.
SBS’s “ad islands” are an inconvenient truth for Senator Conroy
If Senator Conroy sticks to his guns and directs SBS to drop the in-program ads (the so-called “ad islands”) SBS could be the loser, dropping millions of dollars a year, writes Glenn Dyer.
The Rudd Government silent on reforming cross media rules
After missing almost the entire election campaign because I was overseas I logged onto the ALP’s website today to check out the ALP’s new communications policy. To my horror I discovered it doesn’t have one. Somehow it managed to skate through an entire election campaign without announcing one.
IPA’s WiMax report is a double edged political sword
Labor is trying to make political capital out of an IPA paper that bags the Government’s plans for using WiMax technology for rural broadband. But they will be hoping said that no one reads the whole report, because there is plenty there to give Labor grief as well, writes Margaret Simons.
Coonan kicks own goals over ICT strategies
It was billed as the first debate of the not-quite-campaign. Two Senators confidently outlined their parties’ ICT strategies to the Australian Computer Society. Minister Helen Coonan was there too. Stilgherrian reports on the outcome.
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Shock: Conroy reveals policy detail worth $200 million
Labor’s spokesman for Media and Communications, Senator Stephen Conroy seems to have let slip some details of a central plank of Labor’s forthcoming election campaign in Brisbane last week.
