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• Waugh partners call it quits after nine years

  Australian open source industry identities Pia and Jeff Waugh have separated after nine years together, the last six in wedlock.

• CeBIT 2011: Trove search engine wins eGovernment award

  The National Library of Australia’s Trove search engine project has taken out the 2011 Excellence in eGovernment Award and the Service Delivery Category Award at the CeBIT 2011 ICT Celebration Dinner in Sydney last night.

• Top ten most influential of 2010: Gov 2.0

  Each Friday until the end of the year, Computerworld Australia is revealing one of the top ten most influential people, technologies and trends that shaped 2010 in Australia. The top ten was collated and determined by our editorial team and advisory panel of IT managers, industry experts, consultants and analysts.

• In pictures: CeBIT Australia's Gov 2.0 Conference 2010

  CeBIT Australia's Gov 2.0 Conference 2010, held in Canberra this week, brought together both local and international luminaries of the governement collaboration and consultation world. Among the familiar Australian e-government faces also lay the likes of the South Australian CIO, UK Government Government 2.0 advocates and a host of those eager to share their experiences and practices on how to change government for the better.

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  Gov 2.0, Web 2.0 clash over accessibility

  Though the Federal Government has made headway in the implementation of government engagement and Gov 2.0 practices, public sector information is not yet accessible or ubiquitous enough for Australia, according to Queensland of Technology professor and Internet veteran, Bill Caelli.

• Politician Profiles: Senator Kate Lundy

  Senator Kate Lundy has become known in the technology community as a fierce advocate of government engagement and Gov 2.0, pushing for support of many of the recommendations made last year by the Government 2.0 Taskforce, and pre-empting the declaration of open government by Finance minister, Lindsay Tanner. Computerworld Australia talked to the senator about her views on technology, and whether she would accept an IT posting on the government's frontbench.

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  Abbott's ICT cuts "senseless": Conroy

  Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has described Opposition Leader Tony Abbott as "reckless" and election promises to save millions by dropping a training fund for Telstra employees and other sections of NBN Co's deal with Telstra as "senseless cuts".

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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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  Congrats Conroy: Telcos say NBN job well done

  Internet service providers (ISPs) say they believe Federal Communications Minister and Right factional power broker, Stephen Conroy, has cemented his position in the wake of Julia Gillard’s post to the Prime Ministerial seat.

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  ICT to remain a strong focus under Gillard: Industry

  The sudden shift in Federal leadership, which has seen Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, ousted in favour his deputy, Julia Gillard, has produced a strong note of optimism within Australia's ICT industry.

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  Lundy to call for opt-in ISP filter model

  Labor Senator, Kate Lundy, has announced she will push the Federal Government to consider adopting an opt-in version of its proposed mandatory ISP-level Internet filter.

• Lundy reinforces culture change for Gov 2.0

  Labor Senator, Kate Lundy, has reinforced the need for a cultural transformation within Federal Government departments as a requisite step in the move to Gov 2.0.

• Australian Parliament House content goes common

  The Australian Parliament House (APH) website is next in line for a Creative Commons licence, according to a spokesperson for the APH.

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  Senate NBN committee says scrap it, don't scrap it

  The Senate select committee on the National Broadband Network (NBN) has recommended scrapping the project.

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  Opposition NBN stance is ‘absolutely appalling’: Lundy

  Labor backbench senator, Kate Lundy, has described the Opposition’s stance on the national broadband network (NBN) as “absolutely appalling” and “schizophrenic”.