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      <title><![CDATA[NSW Budget tucks IT spending away in the background]]></title>
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      <title><![CDATA[Australia has already given up on an all-fibre NBN]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Forget waiting for the election: Judging by the rhetoric now coming from the highest levels, Labor has already lost the election and we should apparently start redecorating the NBN now. Let's hope the Coalition has more planned than just gutting NBN Co.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Mass email outage for NSW teachers]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Australia government IT spending to hit AU$9.5 billion this year]]></title>
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      <title><![CDATA[Emergency service spectrum battle continues]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Greens to introduce metadata warrant Bill today]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Australian Greens will today introduce its Bill into parliament to force government agencies to obtain a warrant before accessing telecommunications metadata.]]></description>
      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:36:05 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[ZDNetGovWeek: NSA chaos continues, big tech fights back]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[In a push to capture 10 percent of Australians who aren't on the electoral roll yet, the Australian government has launched online enrolment.]]></description>
      <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:40:05 +0000]]></pubDate>
      <media:credit role="author"><![CDATA[Josh Taylor]]></media:credit>
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      <description><![CDATA[The passports.gov.au website is expected to be back up today after a hardware failure took it offline last Tuesday.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[On this week's Technolatte podcast, the Australian team discusses PRISM, the Queensland government's abysmal IT audit, and Vodafone's 4G launch.]]></description>
      <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:14:04 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Does Australia even know what it's doing with its cybers?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[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?]]></description>
      <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:17:04 +0000]]></pubDate>
      <media:credit role="author"><![CDATA[Michael Lee]]></media:credit>
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      <title><![CDATA[Australia under attack from 'cyberspies']]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Australia is under attack from dozens of malicious cyberattacks every week, many of them sponsored by foreign powers.]]></description>
      <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:10:05 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Australian government to review digital privacy protection]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Australian govt pledges to right employee share scheme wrongs]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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      <media:credit role="author"><![CDATA[Michael Lee]]></media:credit>
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      <title><![CDATA[Mass metadata retention: Australia as an early adopter]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:14:04 +0000]]></pubDate>
      <media:credit role="author"><![CDATA[Josh Taylor]]></media:credit>
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      <title><![CDATA[Qld IT systems left unpatched, used in botnets]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Unisys retains contract with Aussie immigration department]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Unisys will continue to provision end-user and infrastructure services to the Department of Immigration and Citizenship under a new five-year agreement worth around AU$104.1 million.]]></description>
      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:36:05 +0000]]></pubDate>
      <media:credit role="author"><![CDATA[Spandas Lui]]></media:credit>
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      <title><![CDATA[Australian e-health sign-up target 'in sight']]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Despite needing to double the number of users signed up for e-health records, the Australian Department of Health and Ageing is confident that it'll get close to 500,000 users signed up by the end of this month.]]></description>
      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 11 Jun 2013 11:18:05 +0000]]></pubDate>
      <media:credit role="author"><![CDATA[Josh Taylor]]></media:credit>
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      <title><![CDATA[Qld no longer able to manage IT systems, fix to cost AU$7.4 billion]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A report into the state of the Queensland government's IT systems has found that it cannot continue on its 1990s model of building, owning, and maintaining its own systems if it wants to stay relevant.]]></description>
      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 11 Jun 2013 11:06:05 +0000]]></pubDate>
      <media:credit role="author"><![CDATA[Michael Lee]]></media:credit>
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