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Coonan confident on Telstra sale

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2004
... between the coalition partners did not appear to be all that great when it came to the full sale of Telstra, Communications Minister Helen Coonan said today. Senator Coonan said a thorough investigation of the government's commitment to rural and regional ...

Govt faces Telstra pressure as chairman departs

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2004
... That plan, put to the board by Mr Mansfield and company chief executive Ziggy Switkowski, was rejected. Communications Minister Daryl Williams, himself planning to retire from politics at the upcoming federal election, failed to comment directly on the ...

Latham poll shows election to be close: Costello

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 DEC 2003
... the Australian people that we remain the better government next year, and that's not going to be easy." Communications minister Daryl Williams said "there is only one opinion poll that counts". And education minister Brendan Nelson said the Newspoll ...

Government Telstra sale blocked by Senate

... believe most of the population wants Telstra to remain in public hands. However, despite the blocked bill, Communications Minister Daryl Williams said he expects the Telstra sale bill to remain largely unchanged when it returns to the Senate next year. ...

Anti-spam bill passed

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2003
... used to harvest addresses and generate address lists for the purposes of sending spam will be banned. Communications Minister Daryl Williams said spam emails, which spruik everything from pornographic websites to get-rich-quick schemes, were a threat ...

Mobile phones industry worth more than $5 billion per year: Minister Alston

Communications Minister Richard Alston has said that the mobile phone industry has made a substantial and growing contribution to the Australian economy, with the industry gross product in 2002/03 of $5.16 billion. There are now more mobile than fixed ...

Government clears the way for full Telstra sale

... four years to improve rural internet and phone services, to clear the way for the full sale of Telstra. Communications Minister Richard Alston announced the Government would act on all 39 recommendations of last year's Estens inquiry into regional telecommunications. ...

Government set to reveal future of Telstra

WITH AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2003
... there will an announcement tomorrow," a party spokesman said. Tonight the Prime Minister John Howard, Communications Minister Richard Alston and Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson will meet to discuss the 39 recommendations of the recent Estens inquiry ...
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