The Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy had claimed that during the inspection of Wi-Fi access points, the internet banking particulars can be taken by Google's Street View cars. But this has been alleged to be a "misinformation" and Conroy has been accused for the same by Australia's peak organization for systems administrators.

NBN Company organized a free installation of a unit that can help residents to connect to the Company’s National Broadband Network. The project’s first phase included the Tasmanian portion, in which network will be installed outside the residents shelters. 45% out of those 5000 households have consented to this allowance by the Company.

The Federal Government has sacked reports regarding its roll-out of the national broadband network in Tasmania is being changed, so as to win votes in the state's trivial northern electorates.

Next month Midway Point near Hobart, and Smithton and Scottsdale in the north will happen to the first Australian centers to have access to the NBN.

One of Australia's biggest internet organizations has refused assertions by a federal minister that it backs the Rudd Government's web sifting proposal.

$24M gets the Government an Internet filter that they can set up, but cannot prevent people from bypassing.

In mid January this year, Greens Senator, Scott Ludlam asked Senator Conroy a sequence of "questions on notice". The answers were at last offered yesterday.

The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy has made an announcement that he is going to extend the registration period on the Do Not Call Register to five years, which is three years presently.

Australian Communication Minister Stephen Conroy's department has indicated that the Communications and Media Authority and the local councils may make the exemptions in the rollout of fiber in new housing estates obligatory.

Australian Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has opined that internet, like books, films and newspapers, should be censored given the fact that it is not "special". He was reported to be assisting it in an interview with Fairfax Media's national Canberra Bureau Chief, Tim Lester.

A proposal forwarded by Australian Government, to compulsorily filter web, has been acutely condemned by Internet giants, Google and Yahoo. This was a heavy handed scheme which confines access to officially permitted information.

Senator Stephen Conroy is reported to launch the first retail service providers that offer high speed broadband and telephone services over a fiber-optic network being developed by NBN Co in Tasmania.