The Invisible Barrier: EFA Applauds New Initiative Tackling Australia’s Digital Divide
Struggling to afford home broadband for your kids’ schooling? This initiative helps bridge the digital gap with free NBN connections.
Opinion: The game is up for Malcolm’s pseudo-NBN
Anyone watching or listening to today’s day-long forensic deconstruction by former Communications Minister Stephen Conroy of the current state of the NBN rollout could but not conclude that the entire project is being neutered for entirely political reasons. Even NBN CEO Bill Morrow, by the end of the day, effectively conceded that he was no […]
EFA’s 2016 Wish List
While this has been a difficult year for the digital rights agenda in Australia, 2016 looks much more promising. With an election looming in which innovation and ‘tech-savviness’ are likely to be regular talking points, it provides one of the best opportunities for digital rights issues to really break into the mainstream. As we did last […]
EFA’s 2015 Wish List
As 2014 draws to a close, and EFA approaches its 21st birthday next month, we’ve been thinking about what we’d like to see happen in the year ahead. The Australian government seems intent on passing a series of laws (in addition to some they’ve already rammed through the parliament) that pose serious threats to civil […]
EFA applauds Simon Hackett’s appointment to NBN Co Board
EFA is quoted in Business Spectator endorsing Simon Hackett’s appointment to the NBN Co Board. We said that: “Hackett’s ideas allow for market-friendly solutions to keep costs down and genuine entrepreneurialism, but specifically do so without introducing the kind of potential for network inequalities that have been mooted about a free-for-all FTTN rollout,” Dr Rintel […]
