May 2024
- Opinion
- Quantum Computing
So many things wrong with Labor’s one huge bet on PsiQuantum
Venture capital investors typically place many best across multiple different companies and technologies. The government is backing one technology and company.
September 2020
- Opinion
- NBN
Broadband turnaround keeps moving past Labor's sterile fibre wars
New investments in the NBN will connect about 8 million homes and businesses around Australia to gigabit speed broadband services.
May 2020
- Opinion
- NBN
Only a mug would believe in Rudd's NBN nirvana
The former prime minister claims his expensive all-fibre NBN would be virtually finished but, if it had proceeded, many Australians couldn't have worked from home.
April 2020
- Opinion
- Digital Inquiry
Why the government is moving to tame the digital duopoly
Google and Facebook have fabulously profitable business models, but it is eroding the supply of journalism in Australia. It is time they paid their way.
March 2020
- Opinion
- Coronavirus pandemic
Minister insists NBN can handle the working from home surge
Communications Minister Paul Fletcher says the network can cope with 100 per cent more traffic during the day, and that it is holding up well to increased demand.
October 2019
- Opinion
- Telecommunications
Telstra should blame their Labor deal
The telco makes lower profits from broadband -- and consumers are better off. But that is what the company signed up for.