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• Grantly Mailes to drive Coalition ICT strategy in Victoria

  The former first CIO of the South Australian government has been named the first 'chief technology advocate' of Victoria.

• Abbott's working group mulls online learning

  A Coalition working group will examine how Australian higher education can better embrace online learning, announced Opposition Leader Tony Abbott.

• Quigley slams Abbott's broadband policy

  NBN Co chief executive, Mike Quigley, has delivered a stinging attack on the Coalition's broadband policy, publicly backing Labor's rival National Broadband Network project just days before the Federal Election.

• Greens drop Net filter in cyber safety policy

  A national broadband network is a necessity, but Australian's don't need a mandatory Internet filter to decide what is appropriate to view online, according to the Greens which announced its cyber safety policy today.

• Abbott is a Luddite, says Conroy

  Communications Minister Stephen Conroy this afternoon opened fire on Tony Abbott, labelling him a “luddite” for not having appearing to have anything to do with his party’s technology policies, on a day in which the Canberra press gallery also criticised the Opposition Leader on the issue.

• Coalition policy "a blast from the past": Conroy

  Labor and the Greens have opened fire on the Coalition's rival broadband policy revealed this morning, in an ICT sector election debate that at times saw Communications Minister Stephen Conroy and his shadow Tony Smith at each others' throats.

• Coalition issues $6bn broadband policy

  The Coalition has unveiled its $6 billion rival broadband policy to Labor's National Broadband Network (NBN) project, with the central planks being a competitive backhaul network, regional and metropolitan wireless networks and an ADSL enrichment program that will target telephone exchanges without ADSL2+ broadband.