The Australian Greens have successfully negotiated more NBN Co transparency from the Government, which had planned to exempt it from Freedom of Information requests.

The Shadow Minister claims his investment in an IT company would benefit from the NBN makes his argument against the network more honest.

A report by a leading industry group has backed the National Broadband Network (NBN) but has also raised concerns about the lack of a cost-benefit analysis of the $43 billion project.

Australia faces a period of political instability after voters turned on the Gillard government but the fall of seats meant neither major party had a majority and independents will have the balance of power in the house.

The Australian Greens has released its own cyber-safety policy to rival that of the two major parties, with the central planks being an obligation for ISPs to offer PC- or modem-based filtering technology to customers, stronger cybercrime law enforcement and better research and education in the field.

Green Senator, Scott Ludlam, talks about preferring the voluntary ISP filter, NBN, Telstra, Government procurement and what he plans to do if the Greens get the balance of power

The Federal Government has released some of the public submissions received for its Internet filtering discussion paper.

The Greens party has taken a swipe at the Internet filtering consultation paper and criticised the Government’s restrictions on public contribution to the proposed legislation.