The Joint Parliamentary Committee overseeing the rollout of the National Broadband Network will not have a Government majority thanks to a deal with the Australian Greens.

The Australian Greens say they will push for NBN Co - tasked with rolling out the national broadband network - to be subject to the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act when parliament resumes.

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.

The dust has started to settle and Australians can finally breathe – two of the independent MPs, Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott, have chosen the ALP and Julia Gillard as Prime Minister.

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.

Industry bodies are worried about the Coalition’s broadband policy, with Australian Computer Society (ACS) CEO, Bruce Lakin, giving it a fail mark.

Both the Labor and Greens parties this afternoon opened fire on the Coalition’s rival broadband policy revealed this morning, in an ICT sector election debate that at times saw Communications Minister Stephen Conroy and his shadow Tony Smith at each others’ throats.

It was supposed to be an easy election for the Labor Party. But things soured rapidly, recently, and PM Kevin Rudd became yesterday's hero. A bad poll or three and he was gone and Julia Gillard became Australia's first women PM. Since then she's attempted to patch the holes in Labor's sinking ship and regained much of the ground Rudd had lost. The Tony Abbott-led Opposition is unpredictable. It's made its mark by simply opposing - vehemently - just about everything. ARN will give you all the news that matters in the lead up to what appears a relatively tight poll, looking at the election from an IT and channel perspective with informed comment, detailed interviews, opinions and all the news. So check in regularly for all the latest.