Stories about Stephen Conroy

Conroy to roll out WiMax to broadband blackspots
Despite having mothballed the previous government's $1bn OPEL WiMax network plan, Stephen Conroy has announced his great new idea: a WiMax network to cover broadband blackspots.
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China delays Net filtering; Australia sticks to its guns
As China backs off from controversial PC filtering plans, Australia is looking to expand its censorship net, with plans to ban computer games too.
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NBN rollout getting started: Conroy
When the going gets politically tough, the NBN gets going, apparently. Senator Conroy says the government is moving quickly to get started on the fibre network in regional areas.
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Why Malcolm Turnbull wants you to drive on potholes
Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull today slammed the Rudd Government's $43 billion national road network.
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Internode "gobsmacked", iiNet welcomes FTTH network
Two high profile ISPs have welcomed the government's decision to scrap its fibre-to-the-node plans and build a fibre-to-the-home network instead.
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BREAKING NEWS: govt to build $43bn fibre-to-the-home network
The Government has scrapped the fraught NBN process and will instead build its own 100Mbit/s fibre to the home network to 90% of Australians, within 5-8 years.
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Conroy up for sale on eBay
It may be a bit late for April Fools, but Ebay member "Krudd53" has put the beleaguered Minister for Internet Censorship, Senator Stephen Conroy, up for auction.
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Conroy orders surveillance on Whirlpool
The besieged Minister for Censorship is organising surveillance for the popular Whirlpool website, along with others.
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iiNet out of Rudd/Conroy net filtering trial
iiNet has announced that it has pulled out of the government's controversial internet filtering pilot.
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Fake Stephen Conroy outed as Telstra staffer
The hilarious and prescient Fake Stephen Conroy account on Twitter has been abruptly closed, after it was revealed that the spoofer was a senior Telstra employee.
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Internet filters for idiots
Late last night, APC was approached by the Rudd Government's department-of-leaking-stuff-to-the-opposition with secret details of the net filtering plan.
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BREAKING: Internet filter to go live… without iiNet or Optus
Australia's second and third largest ISPs, Optus and iiNet, won't be included in the government's internet filter test upon its launch.
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"Scrap the internet filter, give the cash to bushfire survivors"
Members of the online community are calling for the government to scrap the unpopular government internet filter and give the $44 million to bushfire survivors.
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US dumps unpopular internet filter plan
Even before a change of president, US government officials have realised that trying to block porn online is a bad way of trying to enhance the Internet. Anyone wanna tell Conroy?
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CHRISTMAS SHOCK: Australian government to trial P2P filters
The Rudd government didn't tell voters before the election, but now it has revealed it will filter illegal P2P transfers at a government level as part of its ISP filtering plan.
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