Australia Tables Anti-spam Law
News New anti-spam legislation has been introduced into Australia's House of Representatives that allows for penalties of up to AU$1.1m (£0.46m) per day for sending spam, and Senator Richard Alston has called on the United States to follow suit with...
[September 18, 2003, 10:40]
Australia To Ban Spam
News The federal government intends to introduce legislation later this year that will ban unsolicited commercial email, the minister for communications and information technology, senator Richard Alston announced today.
[July 23, 2003, 10:03]
Australia Censors The Net
News 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. The bill calls for a code of practice that will be developed by the industry, something...
[July 2, 1999, 9:16]
Australian Government Pledges Over £1bn To IT
News The shell-out also falls under the portfolios of IT minister Richard Alston and education minister, David Kemp. Senator Alston rejected criticisms that Australia's IT industry was a global follower, rather than a leader.
[January 29, 2001, 9:59]
Q&A: Australia's 'Luddite' IT Minister
News In this exclusive interview, 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 policies on Internet regulation, junk email and...
[November 29, 2002, 10:19]
Australia Cracks Down On Offensive Content
News Senator Richard Alston, Australia's Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, has flagged new laws to crack down on Internet harassment and the use of the medium to advocate violence.
[August 21, 2003, 10:40]
Australian Government Moves On SMS Spam
News The minister for communications, information technology and the arts, Senator Richard Alston, said while the code had been in place for several months, "its registration by the (Australian Communications Authority) will enable the ACA to direct...
[June 13, 2003, 8:48]
Australia Won't Disclose Stance On Encryption
News Minister for communications Senator Richard Alston's office didn't return phone calls to ZDNet Australia and the Attorney General's department referred the matter to the Department of Defence, which said: "It goes into the realms of defence and we...
[September 21, 2001, 10:32]
Bugbear Hits Australian Parliament
News The offices for the minister for information technology, Senator Richard Alston, and the Department of Parliamentary Reporting Staff, which manages the parliament's computer network, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
[October 23, 2002, 9:12]
Aussie ISPs Held Responsible For Content
News Richard Alston, said in a statement that the government was working on legislation that would "establish a regime to regulate the carriage of content over the Internet. Under that regime, Alston said, consumer complaints about Internet content...
[March 23, 1999, 7:48]
Australia Considers Sending Spammers To Jail
News John Donovan, managing director of Australia and New Zealand for computer security company Symantec, was one of about 20 delegates to the advisory group on spam that included members from the Internet Industry Association, major ISPs, security...
[July 25, 2003, 9:44]
