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  Conroy yet to meet Google-backed anti-ISP filter group

  Despite months of lobbying, a Google and iiNet-backed industry group, the Safer Internet Group (SIG), has been unsuccessful in meeting with the communications minister, Stephen Conroy, to discuss their alternative to the Government’s proposed mandatory ISP-filter.

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  6000km broadband blackspot announcement imminent

  The Federal Government is poised to announce the rollout of an additional 6000 kilometres of fibre optic backbone as part of its Regional Backbone Blackspots Program.

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  Conroy and Minchin spar over Telstra valuation blunder

  In a rowdy sitting of the Senate communications minister, Senator Stephen Conroy and his shadow, Senator Nick Minchin, have traded barbs over the erroneous tabling of an Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) document containing a confidential valuation of Telstra's core network.

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  Analyst: Conroy's blunder number not news

  The $25 billion difference in valuations of Tesltra's core network between the telco and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is not news to the industry, according to an IDC telecommunications analyst.

• Telcos push for Telstra break-up laws

  A group of telecommunications companies have urged federal politicians to pass legislative reforms that would lead to a break up of Telstra business.

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  Fed Govt to push ahead with Telstra separation - Conroy

  The Federal Government is to press ahead with its Telstra separation bill despite attempts by the opposition to delay the passage of the bill, according to communications minister Stephen Conroy.

• Conroy stops payphone extinction, evangelises Telstra separation

  The Federal Government will also introducing measures whereby consumers would be able to apply to the Austrlian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to stop Telstra removing payphones in their area. Communications minister, Stephen Conroy, also pointed to higher prices and slower speeds for broadband in Australia as the major reason for the proposed Telstra separation plans announced yesterday.

• Cyber safety data hard to come by: report

  A report commissioned by the Federal Government on cyber safety has shed light on the scarcity of local data on online dangers, such as cyber bulling and cyber stalking, to children.

• First leg of NBN rolled out in Tasmania

  The first stage of the National Broadband Network has begun in Tasmania with an open competitive tender for fibre optic cable by Aurora Energy.

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  Wikileaks to Conroy: we will go after you

  Wikileaks says it will go legal to protect its source

• Government flags closer relationship with IT industry over e-security

  Australian Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, and Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Stephen Conroy, have flagged closer relationships with the IT industry and ISPs as necessary to improving the nation’s e-security.

• Conroy scolds Telstra for failing NBN

  Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has admonished Telstra for failing to bid for the National Broadband Network (NBN), and said its executives will now have to face up to shareholders.

• NBN: Government must now enforce open network principles

  A telecommunications analyst has claimed the burning question for Australia’s ISP industry is not who builds the National Broadband Network, but whether the government defines and enforces a truly open access network model.

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  No opt-out of filtered Internet

  Australians will be unable to opt-out of the government's pending Internet content filtering scheme, and will instead be placed on a watered-down blacklist, experts say.