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• Abbott's working group mulls online learning

  A Coalition working group will examine how Australian higher education can better embrace online learning, announced Opposition Leader Tony Abbott.

• Coalition's NBN will look like a "dog's breakfast": Ludlam

  Greens Senator Scott Ludlam believes the Coalition’s version of the National Broadband Network (NBN) will end up looking like a “dog’s breakfast” if it wins the federal election in September.

• Will Twitter sway elections in Australia?

  Social media is expected to play a significant role in political messaging leading up to the federal election on 14 September. However, finding an effective social strategy may be no easy task.

• Opposition would consider cancelling NBN Co vendor contracts

  The Federal Opposition would consider cancelling some of the $7 billion worth of contracts signed between NBN Co and networking vendors upon taking power, Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, has said in a radio interview.

• Opposition responds to budget, slams NBN

  Shadow communications minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has continued the Opposition's post budget reply attack on the National Broadband Network (NBN), claiming that billions of dollars will be pumped into the national infrastructure project.

• BUDGET 2011: Abbott says spend NBN cash on roads and hospitals

  The federal opposition leader, Tony Abbott, has used his reply speech to the 2011-2012 federal budget to once again attack the National Broadband Network (NBN) and argue for a market-oriented solution to the need for faster broadband.
  

• Coalition proposes cuts to online student testing

  Among the cuts announced this week as part of the coalition's proposed alternative flood reconstruction fund are online diagnostic tools students promised by the current Gillard Government during the 2010 election campaign.

• Abbott acknowledges support for NBN in Tasmania

  Opposition leader Tony Abbott has given one of the strongest suggestions to date that the Coalition will not roll back fibre deployed by the NBN Co should it be elected to power at the next election.

• Abbott pledges NBN vigilance

  Tony Abbott has warned Julia Gillard's government-in-waiting that the Opposition will be "hyper-vigilant" in its monitoring of Labor's National Broadband Network project for screw-ups.

• Abbott not aware of R18+ games issue, but will review if elected

  Opposition Leader Tony Abbott tonight said he would be happy to examine the issue of an R18+ classification rating for video games if the Coalition won the upcoming Federal Election, although he admitted he did not know there had been a debate on the issue.

• Federal Election 2010: Liberal Party's social media strategy

  The Liberal Party's social media presence throughout the Federal election campaign has been patchy at best, hallmarked by a PR 'broadcast'-style approach and is typified by Opposition leader Tony Abbott, who hasn't bothered tweeting in almost a month.

• Abbott's ICT cuts "senseless": Conroy

  Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has described Opposition Leader Tony Abbott as "reckless" and election promises to save millions by dropping a training fund for Telstra employees and other sections of NBN Co's deal with Telstra as "senseless cuts".
  

• Abbott's public sector hiring freeze could hurt ICT skills

  The Opposition Leader Tony Abbott’s 2010 Budget reply has left some serious questions within the ICT industry around its impact on the ongoing skills shortage within the sector.

• Friday IT Funny - Back to the future on Tony Abbott's homepage

  Budgets are never really a fun thing to cover - you spend hours pouring over bland financial documents and often obfuscated plans.

• NBN Implementation Study gets flack from Opposition

  Senator Stephen Conroy's release of the NBN Implementation Study has continued to attract attention from Federal politicians.