Optus review to consider role of govt in responding to outages

Former ACMA Deputy Chair Richard Bean will lead a government review of the Optus outage.

27 November, 2023

Former ACCC deputy to review Online Safety laws

Former ACCC deputy chair Delia Rickard will lead a review of the Online Safety Act.

22 November, 2023

Government to hold industry-wide inquiry after Optus outage

The federal government will hold an industry-wide inquiry following an Optus outage that affected millions of Australians.

8 November, 2023

Govt releases RFT for mobile coverage audit

The federal government has released a request for tender for a $20 million national audit to identify mobile black spots.

12 September, 2023

ACMA to establish $10m SenderID registry

ACMA has been tasked with setting up a sender ID registry to curb text message scams.

24 April, 2023

Aus Post under review as it struggles to remain viable

The federal government has announced a review into Australia Post to ensure the struggling government owned entity remains financially viable.

2 March, 2023

Shorten’s new Shadow Ministry: Who to watch

Welfare, Medicare & Broadband key fronts

25 July, 2016

Women ascend in Shorten’s Shadow Cabinet reshuffle

Women the winners in revamped Labor front bench.

13 October, 2015

Mobile Black Spots fix gets poor reception from Labor

New base stations won’t eliminate poor mobile coverage.

8 October, 2014

ALGA board bends to back referendum

By Julian Bajkowski The Australian Local Government Association has officially overcome its public anxiety attack over the timing of a referendum on Constitutional recognition of local government at the next federal election. In a Friday afternoon bulletin to members, the peak group said that its board had had now “formally resolved to support and campaign […]

1 March, 2013

Fed committee gives green light to referendum

By Julian Bajkowski The parliamentary committee tasked with evaluating the merits of holding a referendum on amending the Constitution to give financial recognition to local government has recommended that a poll be held at the forthcoming federal election this year. Published today, the ‘yes’ recommendation from the Joint Select Committee on Constitutional Recognition of Local […]

24 January, 2013

Separate referendum would cost $121m

By Julian Bajkowski A stand-alone referendum on Constitutional Recognition for local government outside a federal election would cost taxpayers a minimum of $121 million in costs incurred by the Australian Electoral Commission alone, the agency responsible for running the polls has estimated. The big number price tag is contained in the AEC’s submission to the […]

22 January, 2013

Referendum committee boils over

By Julian Bajkowski Federal parliamentarians have rounded on their local government colleagues over an attempt to try and postpone a referendum to secure legal certainty over direct funding for council-based projects from Canberra. At a visibly tense public hearing of the Joint Select Committee on Constitutional Recognition of Local Government in Sydney on Wednesday, federal […]

18 January, 2013