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• Conroy keeps communications portfolio

  Prime Minister Julia Gillard says her new ministry delivers on a promise to establish a portfolio dedicated to regional Australia.

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  Gillard acknowledges NBN victory

  Prime Minister Julia Gillard invited Australians to reflect on the significance of Labor's National Broadband Network project going ahead, with its potential to deliver equivalent telecommunications pricing for the bush with metropolitan Australia.

• Independent MPs back Labor, form minority government

  Independent MPs, Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott, have backed Gillard’s Labor Government after weeks of uncertainty for the Australian people, a result that will see the National Broadband Network (NBN) go ahead.

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  Updated: “You do it once, you do it right, you do it fibre” - NBN survives

  The Labor’s $43 billion National Broadband Network (NBN) has survived a gruelling six weeks, but after a Federal election and a fortnight of negotiations with the three independent MPs, the fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) project will go ahead.

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  Wilkie secures pokie tech reform

  Tasmanian independent MP, Andrew Wilkie, has won a commitment from Prime Minister Julia Gillard that Labor would enforce an overhaul of poker machine technology if Labor takes Government, involving what is called “pre-commitment technology” being applied to the gambling devices.

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  NBN missing from ALP costings

  Despite promises made by Prime Minister, Jullia Gillard, a proper costing of the Labor party’s proposed National Broadband Network (NBN) is missing from Treasury documents delivered to the three independent MPs deciding the potential formation of a minority government.

• NewSat moves to convince gang of three independents on satellite

  Satellite telecommunications company NewSat (ASX: NWT) has made the unusual move of taking out a half-page advertisement in the Australian Financial Review to voice its opinion on the National Broadband Network (NBN).

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  Quigley to brief MPs on NBN

  Prime Minister Julia Gillard has offered to set up a meeting between NBN Co chief executive, Mike Quigley, and the gang of three independent MPs holding the balance of power, as both the Labor and Liberal parties seek to form a minority government through coalition.

• E-health measures progress as minority government looms

  Election analysts predict that it could take as much as two weeks to decide the fate of the Australian Government, but planned e-health measures are expected to progress in as little as a month.

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  Minimal change for Telstra share price with either government: Analyst

  Telstra’s (ASX:TLS) share price will not be significantly affected no matter the outcome of political negotiations, according to an analyst.

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  Industry optimistic on broadband focus throughout election

  On the back of the weekend’s Federal Election and the possibility of a hung parliament, industry groups have responded with optimism, resulting from the continued focus on the need for broadband in Australia.

• Independents at odds over deal time

  The independent MPs who could decide which party forms the next government are at odds over the likelihood of a successful deal being struck in the next few weeks.

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  Independents to decide government warm on NBN

  The likelihood of a hung parliament after the weekend’s Federal Election has left the fate of the National Broadband Network (NBN) up in the air, but supporters may take heart at comments from independent members set to hold the balance of power.

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  NBN a pie in the sky: Morgan

  THE $43 billion national broadband network (NBN) is a “purely political cover up” of the failure of the original FTTN proposal and a repeat of decades-old, failed nation-building technology Labor policy, according to independent telco consultant and long-time trade unionist, Kevin Morgan.

• Opinion: Federal ICT careers to be hit by both parties

  Political party promises during the election campaign to slash public sector employment, dismember NBN Co and raid the Gershon re-investment fund are leaving ICT professionals with a stark choice.