If Australia adopted New Zealand’s National Broadband Network (NBN) model, the average download speed delivered to Australian households would be a meagre 13Mbps, according to Communications Minister, Senator Stephen Conroy.

The Government-funded company responsible for the rollout of the National Broadband Network, NBN Co, has announced 14 new sites in mainland Australia that will get fibre to the premises.

Wikileaks says it will go legal to protect its source

Australian Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, and Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Stephen Conroy, have flagged closer relationships with the IT industry and ISPs as necessary to improving the nation’s e-security.

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has admonished Telstra for failing to bid for the National Broadband Network (NBN), and said its executives will now have to face up to shareholders.

A telecommunications analyst has claimed the burning question for Australia’s ISP industry is not who builds the National Broadband Network, but whether the government defines and enforces a truly open access network model.

Australians will be unable to opt-out of the government's pending Internet content filtering scheme, and will instead be placed on a watered-down blacklist, experts say.