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Abbott Govt’s plan for mobile black spots: My article in today's @stockandland #commsau paulfletcher.com.au/media-centre/a… -
My interview with @RNBushTele about the $100m Mobile Black Spot Programme competitive selection process #commsau soundcloud.com/paul-fletcher-…
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.@acmadotgov Comms Report shows ever greater consumption of data – and reliance on mobile. See my blog post: paulfletcher.com.au/paul-s-blog/it… #commsau
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Speaking to @RNLifeMatters about the Gov'ts Enhancing Online Safety for Children Bill #cyberbullying #commsau m.soundcloud.com/paul-fletcher-…
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About to go on ABC RN @RNBushTele to discuss today's opening of competitive selection process in $100 m mobile black spots program #commsau
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Launching the Early Childhood Australia Digital Business Kit at the Wee Care Kindergarten in Waverley -- the kits are helping pre-schoolers quickly become more tech savvy than their parents! #commsau -
At the opening of the new Finisar labs and factory at Rosebery in Sydney. They employ more than 200 workers and engineers - 40 per cent of whom were trained overseas. They are the world's leaders in wave length selective switches for optical transmission networks and are a great example of the innovation, technology and advanced manufacturing so vital for Australia's future #commsau -
The ABC and SBS efficiency measures in perspective. My speech on the measures, which will not affect the broadcasters' programming, is here: http://bit.ly/1p0PW9C
To their credit the ABC and SBS are well loved and well trusted – certainly much more so than any political party, minister or furious columnist. With this growing importance comes pressure to demonstrate even greater professionalism, transparency and efficiency in their handling of scarce public resources. #commsau -
With German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane at NICTA this morning #commsau -
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10 March 2014: On Richard Glover's political forum, we debated media ownership, penalty rates and their impact on workers and recent artist boycotts of the biennale #commsau
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31 July 2014: I spoke to the ABC's Chris Uhlmann on AM about the Government's online copyright infringement discussion paper and the violence in Gaza #commsau
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16 April 2014: I spoke to JJJ Hack's Tom Tilley and Paul Brooks about progress on the NBN since the new Government took office in September #commsau
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I spoke to the ABC's Mark Colvin about an efficiency study into the ABC and SBS which will ensure the organisations continue to spend public resources as efficiently as possible. The terms of reference for the study are available online here: http://www.minister.communications.gov.au/malcolm_turnbull/news/abc_and_sbs_efficiency_study #commsau
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Paul spoke with Tom Tilley from JJJ Hack about the Government's Policy on Online Safety for Children
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Following a number of community events throughout the electorate of Calare. Paul spoke to ABC Central West about Mobile Coverage Issues in the area.
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Paul spoke to ABC Ballarat about the Mobile Coverage Programme visit to the electorate of Mallee #commsau
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Paul spoke to ABC Geraldton about the Mobile Coverage Programme visit to the electorate of Durack #commsau
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Paul spoke to ABC Sunshhine Coast about the Mobile Coverage Programme visit to the electorate of Fisher #commsau
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We are pleased to announce the appointment of Ms Dominique Fisher to the Australia Post Board as a non-executive director for three years.
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The Government has today set out a roadmap for reform in the telecommunications sector which will see several restrictive aspects of existing market regulation gradually replaced with more competition-friendly settings.
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The Government has today announced new measures to ensure Australians make informed choices when accessing online content and to strengthen the industry's ability to tackle online copyright infringement.
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The Government commissioned the ABC and SBS Efficiency Study to identify potential savings from the many "back of house" functions of the public broadcasters' operations.
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The Productivity Commission will undertake a cost-benefit analysis of the best way to deliver a mobile broadband capability for public safety agencies.
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The Government has released the final funding arrangements for the next five years, which will see the ABC and SBS eliminate inefficiencies in their back office operations ensuring they deliver Australians even better value.
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The Government welcomes the release of NBN Co Limited’s (NBN Co) 2014 17 Corporate Plan, which shows ambitious targets for the rollout of the network through the current financial year.
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The Department of Communications has today released a consultation paper on the future management of spectrum in Australia for public comment.
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The Government has introduced the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Bill 2014 (the Bill), an important next step in giving our law enforcement and security agencies the tools they need to keep Australia safe.
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The Australian Government is today announcing a package of measures to eliminate unnecessary red tape and remove onerous or outdated reporting requirements in the communications sector.
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The Abbott Government’s $100 million Mobile Black Spot Programme today reached a key milestone: the start of the formal competitive selection process to determine the location of new mobile phone base stations in regional and remote Australia.
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The Australian Government is today announcing a package of measures to eliminate unnecessary red tape and remove onerous or outdated reporting requirements in the communications sector.
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The Government has released today a database of some 6,000 locations in outer metropolitan, regional and remote Australia, which have been nominated by Australians as having inadequate mobile coverage.
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One in five young Australians aged eight to seventeen experiences cyber-bullying each year, according to new research commissioned by the Abbott Government and released today by Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Communications Paul Fletcher MP at the National Centre Against Bullying conference.
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One in five young Australians aged eight to seventeen experiences cyber-bullying each year, according to new research commissioned by the Abbott Government and released today by Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Communications Paul Fletcher MP at the National Centre Against Bullying conference.
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Key resources to help protect young Australians against the threat of cyber-bullying are being provided with the launch of the Australian Communications and Media Authority's Digital Citizens Update, one year on from the launch of the Cybersmart Citizens portal.
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Paul Fletcher MP, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Communications, has issued a reminder that next week is the last chance for people to nominate locations for the Abbott Government's $100 million Mobile Black Spot Programme. Final nominations of eligible black spots are due by 5pm on Friday the 1st of August and can be made by emailing mobilecoverage@communications.gov.au
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The Abbott Government has received a wide range of submissions in response to its Discussion Paper on the $100 million Mobile Black Spot Programme.
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The Abbott Government is honouring its election commitment to provide $10.0 million to enhance online safety for children.
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Paul Fletcher MP, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Communications, has today welcomed the WA Government's $45 million commitment to deliver the Regional Mobile Communications Project, as outlined in the WA State Budget 2014–15 yesterday.
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We all expect a lot from our national broadcasters. We have every right to—projected expenditure of $6.6 billion over the next five years, after the proposed savings I've outlined today, represents a significant commitment by taxpayers to these two organisations by any reasonable measure.
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The Australian Government, as sole shareholder of the NBN Co, has enabled the company to do what any successful business must do—focus relentlessly on the needs of the customers.
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Speech delivered by Malcolm Turnbull at the Minister’s intervention at ITU Plenipotentiary Conference 2014
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Speech delivered to Parliament discussing the Government’s latest deregulation efforts.
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Keynote address on the turnaround of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the Special Broadcasting Service, Australia Post and NBN Co, as well as the risks that still remain.
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Speech delivered today by Paul Fletcher MP, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Communications, to the NBN Rebooted conference in Sydney hosted by CommsDay and Communications Alliance.
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Speech delivered to Parliament discussing the Government’s latest deregulation efforts.
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Scott Farquhar, CEO, Atlassian, addresses how software is changing 4 different industries. Paul Fletcher MP, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Communications, comments on the speech.
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Opening speech of CommsDay’s Melbourne Congress addressing the effect of future regulation on the cost-effectiveness and competition of the broadband market in Australia.
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Paul Fletcher MP, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Communications, addressed policy makers, youth support service providers, researchers and teachers at the ‘National Centre Against Bullying’ Conference to present findings from youth cyber-bullying research commissioned by the Australian Government.
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Labor has criticised the Government’s telecommunications reforms announced on Thursday for including a proposal to replace the National Broadband Network’s current ACCC-regulated prices with ACCC-regulated price caps. Labor claims this will mean broadband users in the bush pay higher prices for the NBN than broadband users in the cities.
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My old friend Mark Day takes me to task today in The Australian over the NBN.
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In a big step towards Australian children being better protected against cyberbullying and safer when they go online, the Enhancing Online Safety for Children Bill 2014 was introduced in the Commonwealth Parliament today.
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The Australian taxpayer provides a combined total of nearly $1.4 billion each year to the ABC and SBS to deliver broadcasting and digital media services in line with their respective Charter obligations. The ABC’s budget allocation is more than $1 billion a year. So we are duty bound to repair the Federal Budget and that means raising extra revenue and reducing expenditure.
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Government announcements on the future of community television
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Exploring the issues on copyright and the Internet
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A story in today’s Sydney Morning Herald claimed that I went ‘bananas’ when asked whether the Government’s package to prevent online copyright infringement includes an Internet “filter”
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The NBN Co’s national rollout plan released today shows that one in three Australian live or work in areas where the NBN will be accessible or the rollout underway by June 2016.
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Why my proposal that the office of managing director not combine the title of editor-in-chief does not threaten the editorial independence of the ABC.
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The innovations and the disruptive trends that are being spoken about today are of enormous interest to me, and not just in an academic sense. As you know I am a former chairman of one of Australia’s first ISPs and now am a shareholder minister of the NBN. So while the debate has centred on the pits and pipes, and the speed and manner in which new infrastructure can be delivered, the crucial thing is to ensure we are maximising its use and utility.
