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Australia looks into software price disparity

The Australian Parliament is planning to investigate why software downloads cost significantly more in... Read more

30 April, 2012 by Steven Musil

Government to review access to internet porn

...exposure to online porn. However, in February 2010 the websites for the Australian Parliament House and Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy came... Read more

20 December, 2010 by Ben Woods

Bugbear hits Australian parliament

...October, causing several printers to spew out pages of senseless text. The Australian Parliament runs a centralised computer network covering a range of departments and... Read more

23 October, 2002 by Jeanne Vida Douglas

Australian parliament fights spyware outbreak

...Services, denies claims that spyware is in any way rampant in the Australian Parliament House, and says it is not burdening the system in anyway... Read more

12 July, 2004 by Jeanne Vida Douglas

News Burst: Australians step closer to routine surveillance

...data on private computer systems after to a bill passed by the Australian parliament Friday Read more

30 November, 1999 by Will Knight
Australian government sites attacked by 'Titstorm'

Australian government sites attacked by 'Titstorm'

...The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks hit the websites for the Australian Parliament House and Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy on... Read more

10 February, 2010 by Ben Grubb and Colin Ho

Telco sues Australian minister over WiMax scheme

...frequency that will be used by the network, prompting questions in the Australian parliament over possible interference from other wireless devices Read more

6 August, 2007 by Jo Best

Aussie agencies accused of locking out open source

...Democrat senator Ian Gilfillen, who introduced a similar Bill to the South Australian parliament in June. Both bills attracted the attention of a US software... Read more

19 September, 2003 by Andrew Colley

US group takes open source fight abroad

...The ISC has vigorously lobbied against similar legislation introduced to the South Australian parliament. Democrat legislative council member Ian Gilfillan entered the State Supply (Procurement... Read more

16 July, 2003 by Andrew Colley

Australia censors the Net

...months of controversy, the Broadcasting (Online Services) Amendment Act has passed through Australian parliament and is on its way into the Australian statute books. Despite... Read more

2 July, 1999 by Gordon Finlayson

Nimda: The cost so far

...that casualties include Dell web servers, Demon's internet servers and the Australian Parliament in Canberra. Software giant Microsoft has, however, refuted claims that a... Read more

20 September, 2001 by Chris Holbrook

Australians step closer to routine surveillance

...data on private computer systems after a bill was passed by the Australian parliament Friday. The ASIO Amendment Bill 1999 has come under fierce criticism... Read more

30 November, 1999 by Will Knight

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