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Mass email outage for NSW teachers
The New South Wales Department of Education and Communities has confirmed that up to 135,000 school staff members are unable to access email today.
Australia government IT spending to hit AU$9.5 billion this year
Software is the main driver of the 2.2 percent growth in spending.
Emergency service spectrum battle continues
The ongoing dispute between emergency services, state government, and the Australian government over the best spectrum band for emergency service networks has spilled over into a new parliamentary inquiry.
Greens to introduce metadata warrant Bill today
The Australian Greens will today introduce its Bill into parliament to force government agencies to obtain a warrant before accessing telecommunications metadata.
ZDNetGovWeek: NSA chaos continues, big tech fights back
The ongoing chaos that is the NSA story continues. Google, Microsoft, and Facebook try to get permission to tell the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. That doesn't work out so well, and all we get are aggregated numbers and more aggravation.
Australian government launches online enrolment
In a push to capture 10 percent of Australians who aren't on the electoral roll yet, the Australian government has launched online enrolment.
Australian passports site to return after week-long outage
The passports.gov.au website is expected to be back up today after a hardware failure took it offline last Tuesday.
Bad IT, super-fast 4G, and secret spies
On this week's Technolatte podcast, the Australian team discusses PRISM, the Queensland government's abysmal IT audit, and Vodafone's 4G launch.
Does Australia even know what it's doing with its cybers?
Another report, another 'cyber' initiative. But we've been putting these projects, proposals, and plans out for years with very little difference in results or agenda. Which makes me wonder: Do we even understand what the 'cybers' are?
Australia under attack from 'cyberspies'
Australia is under attack from dozens of malicious cyberattacks every week, many of them sponsored by foreign powers.
Australian government to review digital privacy protection
In the wake of the NSA PRISM scandal, Australian Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has called for the Australian Law Reform Commission to review privacy protection.
Australian government dusts off digital strategy
The Australian government has updated its two-year-old digital strategy and combined it with some new initiatives and a number of already-announced policies.
Australian govt pledges to right employee share scheme wrongs
Realising that former changes to the employee share scheme have negatively impacted startups, the government has said it will review the situation in order to encourage more tech businesses to contribute to the digital economy.
Mass metadata retention: Australia as an early adopter
The controversy in the US over the government collecting phone records is a reminder that Australian government agencies already have that power, and are pushing for even more.
Qld IT systems left unpatched, used in botnets
Queensland's IT systems have been found to be contributing to botnets, still use IE6, and in some cases have six-year-old vulnerabilities in their server software.