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Australian content after Communications Minister Stephen Conroy declared rules requiring main channels to show local material would not apply...With more than half of homes now having digital television, the multichannels are making progress in winning...
Tags: Stephen Conroy, local content, Australia, Sydney, Satellite television, Digital terrestrial television in Australia, Go!, Entertainment Culture
He will receive an annual salary that is $100,000 more than what Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is paid. Mr Fraser told reporters on Thursday that the debate over how Australia could build a broadband network to secure the economic prosperity of the next century...
Tags: Mike Kaiser, Mr Kaiser, NBN Co, Egypt, Cairo, NBN Television, Morris Iemma, Kevin Rudd, Andrew Fraser, Kaiser Motors, Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, National Broadband Network, Politics, Stephen Conroy, Members of the Australian Senate, Communications in Australia, Nick Minchin, Business Finance
The craggy peak of lofty Gore Hill, beneath the ABC broadcast tower...As we zoom in closer, we see three figures, hooded and clad all in black standing in front of an ancient door, whose frame is carved into the living rock.
Tags: ABC, Kevin Rudd, Mark Scott, Australia, Melbourne, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Hospitality Recreation, Members of the Australian House of Representatives, Stephen Conroy
When the Government tabled a document relating to its national broadband network proposal, it was supposed to black out a confidential analysis of Telstra's core assets. But the figures were left in and showed valuations ranging between $8 billion and...
Tags: Telstra Assets Price, Telstra Corp., Stephen Conroy, Australia, copper network, chief executive
The inquiry examined the Federal Government's plan to force Telstra to break up its wholesale and retail arms. The committee majority has backed the changes to the telecommunications industry. But the Opposition's communications spokesman, Nick Minchin,...
Tags: Discuss Telstra Restructure, Telstra Corp., Senate Environment, Stephen Conroy, Australian Financial Review
The Greens say the Federal Government must call on Indonesia to sign the UN refugee convention if it is going to provide more funding to stop asylum seekers coming to Australia. Australian and Indonesia officials are discussing ways to share more intelligence...
Tags: asylum seekers, Stephen Conroy, Indonesian, Australian, minister stephen
Minister Stephen Conroy said opposition attempts to block his reforms, including a plan to force Telstra to separate, would be a blow to consumers but would not derail the government's $43 billion broadband network. Kevin Rudd also ridiculed the Coalition...
Tags: Telstra, Stephen Conroy, Nationals Senate, Coalition, minister stephen
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has thrown the $43 billion national broadband network debate into disarray by implying the Government will retain part of a copper network he previously said was decaying by the day. At Monday's Senate estimates...
Tags: Conroy Says Telstra Split, Telstra Corp., Stephen Conroy
Stephen Conroy gives the Opposition an ear bashing. Traditionally it's sex, politics and religion that are banned from polite dinner party conversation. In the bizarre world of corporate Australia, add the national broadband network (NBN) to the no-go...
Tags: Telstra, Stephen Conroy, Australia
Telstra's submission to the Senate inquiry on the legislation splitting the company flatly rejects separation, and a backlash led by institutional investors suggests shareholders don't believe they are being offered anything. On announcing the plan to...
Tags: Telstra, Stephen Conroy, Senate