Former WA minister to head regional telecoms review
WA’s former regional development minister Alannah MacTiernan will lead the regional telecommunications review.
29 January, 2024WA’s former regional development minister Alannah MacTiernan will lead the regional telecommunications review.
29 January, 2024The federal government is rolling out a trial of its anti-scam SMS Sender ID Registry.
18 December, 2023Former ACMA Deputy Chair Richard Bean will lead a government review of the Optus outage.
27 November, 2023Former ACCC deputy chair Delia Rickard will lead a review of the Online Safety Act.
22 November, 2023The federal government will hold an industry-wide inquiry following an Optus outage that affected millions of Australians.
8 November, 2023The federal government has released a request for tender for a $20 million national audit to identify mobile black spots.
12 September, 2023ACMA has been tasked with setting up a sender ID registry to curb text message scams.
24 April, 2023The federal government has announced a review into Australia Post to ensure the struggling government owned entity remains financially viable.
2 March, 2023Welfare, Medicare & Broadband key fronts
25 July, 2016Women the winners in revamped Labor front bench.
13 October, 2015New base stations won’t eliminate poor mobile coverage.
8 October, 2014By 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, 2013By 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, 2013By 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 […]
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