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• Treasury to move to e-learning

  The Australian Government Treasury will shortly adopt an e-learning system to help provide meaningful and cost-effective training to staff.

• Tax office goes Ubuntu for AUSkey Linux standard

  The Australian Taxation Office is preparing to release a Linux port of its AUSkey authentication software with Ubuntu being the reference distribution for testing and development.

• SBR gets open source tool, AUSkey coming to Linux

  National Linux advocacy body Linux Australia has added its support for the federal government's Standard Business Reporting initiative by planning an open source SBR integration project, meanwhile work begins at the ATO on AUSkey for Linux.

• The NBN – Flying blind?

  The Australian Greens Senator for Western Australia, Scott Ludlam has questioned whether the Federal Government’s $43 billion National Broadband Network (NBN) plan is “flying blind”.