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The Coalition and Broadband

patrickcallioni's picture

Australia needs a real plan to invest in a National Broadband Network (NBN) with fibre optic and wireless phases.

Brisbane, Melbourne & 'Freo', 3 models for bike-sharing

Brodie McCulloch's picture

How a Bike Share Social Enterprise can change Australian Transportation.

ACCAN Seminar on Responsive Regulation and Policy

Allen Asher's picture

CEO of the consumer watchdog organisation Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) reports on their Responsive Regulation and Policy Seminar.

A Quiet Love Affair with City Rail

alison gordon's picture

It's easy to complain, but now you ask, it's surprising to realise the trains aren't that bad!

Australia Finally Heading in the Right Direction on e-Health

Robin McKenzie's picture

A person-controlled e-health record is not only the most speedy and cost effective solution for the national e-Health strategy, but it is also the approach with the best chance of achieving widespread consumer acceptance. 

Resilient and Resourceful Young People - An Australian National Youth Strategy?

Clive Leach's picture

Australia may do well to learn from the UK's experience of how a National Youth Strategy can become an instrument promoting social inclusion and promote well being and resilience in young people.

Firewall of Lies

Alexandra Roach's picture

The glaring technical flaws of the proposed mandatory internet filter scheme are bad enough, but it is the lies that have been used to sell it which should alarm us the most.

Indefinite Deferrals: Planning to Nowhere

stokes_hughes_anthony's picture

Fourteen years of state Labor deferment of vital rail infrastructure projects and political robbery has left thousands of Sydneysiders without sufficient public rail transport. 

Spatially Enabling Government and Society is Good Politics

Gary Nairn's picture

Australia needs better Spatial Data Infrastructure to support Spatially Enabled Government. Achieving that would translate into better, more effient service delivery; and that's also good politics.  

WiFi & the NBN

Dave Sag's picture

Why is WiFi so open in the rest of the world but so closed in Australia?