Archived News for Executives and Senior Management - October, 2018
Telstra has taken responsibility for an outage that saw over 1,400 calls to triple-zero going unanswered earlier this year.
Call to widen My Health window
A Senate committee has recommended Australians be given another year to opt out of the My Health Record system.
Deal signed for PNG power
An Australian company wants to open a new coal-fired power plant and coal mine in Papua New Guinea.
Feds want to filter searches
The Federal Government wants to be able to instruct Google to demote search results for pirate sites.
SA aims for turbine sale
The South Australian Government will privatise operation of two emergency back-up power stations.
Tech firm gives back door warning
Cisco has contradicted Peter Dutton’s claims that the government’s decryption bill will not result in “back doors” in their products.
ACCC backs gas reserve
The ACCC has reversed its view on a gas reservation policy to control prices.
ASIC to review school banking
ASIC is reviewing school banking, following criticism of Commonwealth Bank's Dollarmites program.
Government enters casual stoush
Unions have slammed the Federal Government's decision to join a casual workers court case.
More drops in job stats
Australia's unemployment rate is down to 5 per cent - its lowest level since April 2012.
NAB boss concedes bad behaviour
Andrew Thorburn has admitted the banking royal commission exposed issues “confronting and upsetting” at the bank.
Nine-Fairfax merge maintained
The merger of Fairfax and Nine appears likely to go ahead, despite a recent share price slump.
Progress on major native title claim
Australia's largest native title settlement has been officially accepted for registration in WA.
Reef report delayed
A report on a controversial $444 million reef funding injection has been delayed.
Fourteen QR staff fail tests
Fourteen Queensland Rail (QR) staff have been sacked after failing drug and alcohol tests at work.
Apology for mesh agony
The Federal Government has issued a national apology after decades of “agony and pain” from vaginal mesh implants.
Apple issues decryption warning
Apple says the Federal Government’s new decryption bill could create security weaknesses and force it to spy on users.
AWS locations leaked
Wikileaks has published the locations of Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centres.
India upholds high-tech database
India's highest court has upheld the legality of a controversial biometric identity database.