Industry News

Despite a steady stream of media reports to the contrary, ICT remains a predominately in-house affair, according to Ovum’s recent survey of the nation’s leading Chief Information Officers.

More young Australians are completing Year 12 or an equivalent school or non-school qualification, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

The number of people working as independent contractors in Australia decreased over the last two years, according to a report released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. 

Australians will soon have access to world-beating download speeds of up to 1,000 Mbps under a new wholesaler plan announced by the National Broadband Network Co (NBN Co)

Optus has announced it has been awarded a new five-year, $60 million contract with Suretek for the delivery of fixed network and high-speed mobile services in the Asia-Pacific region.

Federal Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, has claimed to have ‘torn the shreds’ out of the assumptions underpinning the Opposition’s claims that the National Broadband Network could exceed $90 billion in final costs.

The Federal Government has announced it will continue its capital funding program for non-government schools, with Parliamentary Secretary for School Education Jacinta Collins outlining a $134 million Capital Grants Program.

The average waiting time for elective surgery is continuing to hover at around 36 days, according to the latest figures released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).

The Federal Government has announced it will deliver $777 million to fund its share of the renewed National Partnership on Closing the Gap in Indigenous Health Outcomes for a further three years ending in June 2016.

More and more of the nation’s borrowers are missing repayments, according to the latest Fitch Ratings Dinkum Index.

The much-debated Gonski Report into school funding rests atop five faulty assumptions that undermine its effectiveness as an education policy, a new University of Melbourne study has found.

Mining behemoth BHP Billiton has announced a senior reshuffle of its senior management team as incoming CEO Andrew Mackenzie moves in to the company’s top job.

Australians are increasingly returning to their spend-thrift ways, with more consumers planning to use their credit cards this quarter, while savings will be less of a focus, according to the latest research from Dunn and Bradstreet (D&B).

The Northern Territory Government has announced it will not be moving to introduce a gas reservation policy, saying that to do so would stifle business and reduce investment opportunity.

The Queensland Government has tabled legislation before Parliament that will see TAFE Queensland established as a new independent statutory body.

A new report from Queensland’s Auditor General has found that the state’s councils are facing heightened financial difficulties as successive State Government policies hit hard.

Federal Resources Minister, Gary Gray, has predicted the country will soon become the world’s largest liquefied natural gas.

Telstra has won a $1.1 billion, six year contract to deliver telecommunications services to Defence.

The Queensland Government has outlined a new building code which it says will save homeowners up to $2,000 and will streamline the development application process for building over, or near, sewers, water mains and stormwater drains on domestic home sites.

The Queensland Government has announced ‘sweeping changes’ to the administration of health complaints in Queensland, following two reports tabled in State Parliament earlier this week.