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Both major Australian political parties are refusing to make any comment about the controversial comments made by NBN Co chief executive Bill Morrow last week, despite repeated questioning.

Politicians will always grasp at any straw to bolster their claims that they, and their initiatives, are the best and brightest in the land. Or at times across the globe.

The fate of the NBN, superannuation changes, company tax cuts, the fate of the Coalition government and even that of the Prime Minster Malcolm Turnbull is still unknown.

NBN Co chairman Ziggy Switkowski was warned not to submit an opinion piece to Fairfax Media in which he defended the AFP raids on Labor functionaries in a quest to find out who had leaked documents about the NBN which resulted in several unfavourable articles appearing in various media.

No, it’s not April 1, but Monday 13 June, with Labor promising to deliver FTTP to 2 million extra homes while leaving those on HFC cable and FTTN where they are, for now.

OPINION: I have an admission to make – this is my first opinion piece on the national broadband network (NBN). Perhaps I left it so long as IT journalists are not supposed to be political commentators – let them report the tech. Perhaps because I felt there were so many who could write more authoritatively on the subject than me? And perhaps I feared the flames it may cause.

The NBN Co has stood down two members of its staff alleged to have leaked information to the Labor Party. It has declined to name the two employees or comment further.

UK customer relationship management and technology consulting company Hart Square settled on the world's most liveable city Melbourne for its Asia Pacific headquarters, creating 25 new jobs in the process.

NBN Co today released a 'good news' statement for a change, saying it had exceeded nearly every major forecast set by the company’s Board of Directors for the first time.

The New South Wales Electoral Committee has selected Scytl Online Voting technology to support their iVote Core Voting System, enabling some voters to cast their vote online in 2015.

Australia made a "tremendous" decision to block Chinese owned telecommunications provider Huawei from competing for work on the NBN, according to a former NSA director.

Labor has announced it will launch legislation in the Senate today in a bid to keep its Fibre-to-the-Premise NBN rolling out in Tasmania.

Tasmanian Liberal leader Will Hodgman has committed a Mitt Romney-style election gaffe, after allegedly telling a colleague the lack of a FTTP NBN in Tasmania could cost him the election.

Australian startups are set to benefit big time in the upcoming South Australian election, with Opposition leader Steven Marshall committing to a new 'StartUp Week' if the Liberal party wins next month's vote.

NBN Co chief executive Ziggy Switkowski has refused to table an unredacted version of last week's NBN Stragic review due to "confidentiality issues and ministerial advice," and says speed guarantees have "lost currency."

NBN Co's 'fibre-to-the-basement' trials have produced download speeds of 108 Mbps and upload speeds of 48Mbps, says Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

The Coalition has broken a key election promise, announcing the NBN Co will no longer be able to complete the first stage of the network by 2016.

The Victorian state government has failed to adequately protect the state’s ICT interests from cyber-attack, an Auditor General report has found this week.

Telstra has defended its copper network in the face of heavy criticism, comparing it to a "grandfather's axe" that can be fixed as needed.

Microsoft has weighed in to Australia's raging NBN debate, delclaring Labor's FTTP NBN plan as superior to the Coalition's mixed-technology FTTN plan.