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The Federal Government has rejected what it says are “misleading and baseless claims” from the Labor Party that temporary regulatory relief for Australia Post will force job losses and reduce rates of pay.

The Federal Government says national broadband network operator NBN Co has demonstrated “operational and financial resilience” during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic and has welcomed the company’s “strong” 2019-20 third quarter results.

National Broadband Network operator NBN Co has secured $6.1 billion in debt finance on external markets as part of the company’s inaugural long-term borrowing from private debt markets.

Australia Post has been given regulatory relief by the Federal Government to assist it to continue providing “important” postal services during the COVID-19 crisis.

Shadow attorney-general Mark Dreyfus has slammed the Morrison Government over its tardiness in implementing amendments to the encryption law which was passed last year, saying Finance Minister Senator Mathias Cormann had agreed to do so, and has yet to keep his word nearly a year on.

Telecommunications executive Dr Ziggy Switkowski has been reappointed for another three years as Chair of NBN Co, the builders and operators of the National Broadband Network.

Telecommunications and technology industry veteran Michael Malone has been re-appointed as a non-executive director of the board of NBN Co, the company building Australia’s national broadband network.

Global technology and digitalisation giant Siemens has given an industrial software grant with a commercial value of its product lifecycle management software of $447 million to the University of Western Australia.

Politicians have a big problem when it comes to accepting good advice from people whom they deem to be on the other side of the fence.

Controversy and questions about broadband speed and performance aside, NBN Co, the company building the National Broadband Network, has today released its 2016 financial results and says it has exceeded connection and financial targets for the ninth consecutive quarter. And, the project is “on track”, with the NBN footprint now extended to 2.9 million premises, with 1.1 million connected.

The National Broadband Network is once again mired in election politics after raids on Labor Party offices on Thursday by the Australian Federal Police over leaked documents about the nbn.

The Government has announced a monitoring scheme for ATMs which it says will reduce crime and make the funding of terrorism more dificult.

Labor’s NBN – the idea of a publicly owned and funded, all fibre, wholesale broadband network, is now officially dead.

The Federal Government has released a new cloud computing policy, replacing its July 2013 version. It says Government agencies must use cloud "where it is fit for purpose".