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Q&A: Australia's 'Luddite' IT minister

...ZDNet Australia spoke with Australia's controversial minister for IT and telecommunications, Richard Alston, who has been criticised in the high-tech industry for his... Read more

29 November, 2002 by Cass Warneminde

Australia censors the Net

...Despite the furore, the man behind the bill, Information Technology Minister, Senator Richard Alston, maintains it won't have a negative effect on the industry... Read more

2 July, 1999 by Gordon Finlayson

Australia tables anti-spam law

...AU$1.1m (£0.46m) per day for sending spam, and Senator Richard Alston has called on the United States to follow suit with similar... Read more

18 September, 2003 by James Pearce

Australia cracks down on offensive content

Senator Richard Alston, Australia's Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, has... Read more

21 August, 2003 by Staff

Australia considers sending spammers to jail

...security companies, filtering technologies, as well as the respective ministers for IT: Richard Alston (Liberal), Kate Lundy (Labor) and Brian Greig (Democrats). "I think the... Read more

25 July, 2003 by James Pearce

Australia to ban spam

...ban unsolicited commercial email, the minister for communications and information technology, senator Richard Alston announced today. The legislation is in response to a report by... Read more

23 July, 2003 by Josh Mehlman

Australian government moves on SMS spam

...message services. The minister for communications, information technology and the arts, Senator Richard Alston, said while the code had been in place for several months... Read more

13 June, 2003 by Staff

Bugbear hits Australian parliament

...the funding entirely." The offices for the minister for information technology, Senator Richard Alston, and the Department of Parliamentary Reporting Staff, which manages the parliament... Read more

23 October, 2002 by Jeanne Vida Douglas

Australia won't disclose stance on encryption

...country will rally to support its US counterpart. Minister for communications Senator Richard Alston's office didn't return phone calls to ZDNet Australia and... Read more

21 September, 2001 by Rachel Lebihan

Australia tries to ban online gambling

...unworkable with one state Premier saying the scheme is destined to fail. Richard Alston, communications minister, believes it is time Australia acted to shake off... Read more

29 March, 2001 by Mark Graham

Australian government pledges over £1bn to IT

...said. The shell-out also falls under the portfolios of IT minister Richard Alston and education minister, David Kemp. Senator Alston rejected criticisms that Australia... Read more

29 January, 2001 by Byron Kae

Aussie ISPs held responsible for content

...China and Singapore. Australia's Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Sen. Richard Alston, said in a statement that the government was working on legislation... Read more

23 March, 1999 by Joel Deane

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