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• Scrapped NBN savings unclear: Hockey

  Opposition treasury spokesperson, Joe Hockey, says the extent of the coalition's rollback of the national broadband network would depend on when the next election is called.

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  Opposition hoses down retailers' online GST campaign

  The federal Opposition has weighed into the debate on applying GST to online overseas purchase under $1000 calling on Australian retailers to become more competitive.

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  Refused classification could prove death knell for Labor filter

  The Classification Board’s review of refused classification (RC) material could signal the death of the Labor party’s proposed mandatory ISP-level internet filter, pending its results next year.

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  Business' access to capital, not the NBN, key to future productivity: Hockey

  Federal Opposition Treasurer, Joe Hockey, has delivered a half hour sermon on Australia’s dire need to boost productivity, arguing that the freeing up of capital for business investment, rather than the Government’s investment in its National Broadband Network (NBN), would be more beneficial to the country.

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  Liberals to slash net filter

  The Federal Opposition has moved to trash the Government's highly controversial mandatory ISP-level Internet Filter.

• No laptops for Year 9 students: Hockey

  Next year's Year 9 students will not receive free laptops if the coalition wins the election, shadow treasurer Joe Hockey says.

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  Lundy to debate Hockey in Google forum

  Google is organising a Federal Election debate between Labor’s Kate Lundy and the Opposition’s Joe Hockey for 28 July.

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  Hey Joe – Where are you going with that survey?

  It was to my dismay that after fully reading a letter from Joe Hockey, it was apparent it was nothing more than a dodgy "local issues" survey attempting to cynically mislead his own North Sydney constituents on issues ranging from debt, tax, and education to the NBN, the Internet and health.

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  Hockey wields the meat axe on ICT

  Despite the lack of detail in the Opposition Treasurer Joe Hockey’s recent National Press Club speech, some details have emerged on what cuts the Coalition would make to ICT programs upon taking office.

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  Opposition sticks to public sector job cuts plan

  The Federal Opposition is sticking by its Budget 2010 Reply promise to slash public service jobs in an effort to reign in spending, despite industry warnings that it could negatively affect ICT skills in the sector.

• Hockey wants blood over e-health

  The shadow treasurer, Joe Hockey, wants blood over e-health.

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  Net filter unworkable, games a threat to human liberty: Hockey

  Shadow treasurer Joe Hockey has slammed the government’s proposal to filter the Internet in a presentation at Melbourne’s Grattan Institute yesterday.

• Govt 'obsession' killed national access card

  A former head of Australia's failed $1.1 billion Access Card said the project crashed because of the then Howard government “obsession” with delivering a mandatory single identity card, rather than back-end efficiency.