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Australian Army slams soldiers' site
News The Australian Army is cracking down on a Web site believed to be run by a group of serving Australian soldiers that reviews military equipment and hosts an online forum. In a series of emailed responses to ZDNet Australia, the Army spokesperson...
[February 26, 2004, 8:20]
Australian expo aims to entice UK techies
News Australian vendors, recruiters and government agencies arrived in London over the weekend armed with a growing list of IT specialists needed down under, as part of the federal government-hosted Australia Needs Skills expo.
[March 18, 2008, 8:38]
Case Study: Australian Tax Office - Paving the Way for Government-to-Business eCommerce
White Papers The Australian Taxation Office and Accenture teamed to create a Web-based Business Register making it faster and easier for companies to deal with government agencies. Accenture developed the application using the Microsoft .NET platform...
[June 24, 2009, 8:59]
Australian IT jobs on the road to recovery
News The Australian IT industry is on the way to recovery after the devastation of 11 September, according to the latest TMP Worldwide Job Index. South Australian employers are the most confident with a whopping 75 percent net effect.
[February 14, 2002, 16:28]
IBM Case Study: Australian Bureau of Statistics
White Papers The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is Australia's official statistical organization with a mission to assist and encourage informed decision-making, research and discussion within governments and the community.
[September 13, 2004, 0:00]
Australian High-Tech Crime Centre in child-porn sweep
News The operation was coordinated by the Australian High Tech Crime Centre (AHTCC) and involved the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and all State and Territory police agencies. However there is no doubt that this operation has been a very successful...
[October 1, 2004, 13:00]
Australian body calls for mod-chip legalisation
News The Australian Consumers Association on Monday recommended legalising the use of mod chips as it cautiously greeted a recent proposal to introduce a levy on digital recording media and devices. The ACA has recommended that the use of mod chips be...
[June 21, 2004, 10:00]
Australian law claims spam success
News The Spam Act 2003 has led to the closure of several major Australian-based spammers, the Australian communications Authority (ACA) claimed today. As recently as last week, Spamhaus reported that there has been little or no activity by these...
[July 22, 2004, 11:15]
Australian government may act on spam
News The Australian National Office for the Information Economy (NOIE) has recommended the introduction of anti-spamming laws, while simultaneously playing down their potential benefits in a report released on Wednesday.
[April 16, 2003, 9:25]
Australian parliament fights spyware outbreak
News Australian Democrat Senator Brian Greig is drafting legislation which aims to better define, and in some cases outlaw spyware and adware, after his office found the computers on the parliamentary system had been compromised by more than 50...
[July 12, 2004, 9:35]
Australian government inching towards desktop Linux
Talkback Trouble with most Australian government employees is they are always looking for a 'backhander' (bribe) to do anything. How about that line in the article stating one third of the Australian poplulation gets CentreLink payments (welfare).
[October 29, 2004, 9:24]
Australian government pledges over £1bn to IT
News The Howard government has opened the election year with promises of a $2.9bn Australian dollars (£1.08bn) commitment to IT over five years. The focus of the spend would be on IT industry research and development (R&D), education and dissuading cash...
[January 29, 2001, 9:59]
Australian site told to remove racial content
News In an Australian first, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission has ordered a South Australian publication to remove racially offensive material from its Web site. Commissioner Kathleen McEvoy found that the Adelaide Institute had...
[October 10, 2000, 9:14]
Australian Population Clock
Downloads Keep up to date with the projected population count from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Australia's population is growing twice as fast as China's and there are now over 20 million people living here.
[July 30, 2007, 13:36]
Australian controversy over government Web censorship
News The products were assessed by the CSIRO (an Australian scientific and industrial research organisation) for ease of installation and use. According to the Code, any addition or removal of a filter product from the list of 16 will only be done...
[July 3, 2000, 9:31]
Australian bush WiMax network gets go-ahead
News Despite an ongoing legal battle that threatens to derail the network, the Australian government and OPEL have sealed a deal that will bring WiMax to the bush. The communications minister Helen Coonan yesterday announced that the funding agreement...
[September 10, 2007, 11:57]
Australian government inching towards desktop Linux
News Centrelink, the Australian government agency responsible for distributing social security payments, is expecting delivery of Novell's Open Enterprise Server technology early next year -- another step on the organisation's path that seems to lead...
[October 28, 2004, 12:24]
Australian confirmed as ICANN president
News Australian Paul Twomey will become the first non-American to head the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) when he takes office on 27 March. According to an ICANN statement, the managing director of Australian Internet...
[March 19, 2003, 8:18]
Australian criminal records available online
News Australian's can now check out the criminal behaviour of their friends and neighbours online for just $6 dollars (£2.25) using a new service from Crime Net. This new service has attracting considerable criticism from Australian civil libertarians...
[May 2, 2000, 15:54]
Australian State Blows Opportunity to Bring Linux to Education
Blog If you haven't read the news, the Australian state of New South Wales has signed a deal to deploy 267,000 Windows netbooks into secondary schools, as part of the Australian federal government's multi-billion dollar netbook-in-schools programme.
[April 6, 2009, 10:01]
