Open Source software now has to be considered as part of any Australian government agencies ICT procurements, as of March 2011. Australian Government – Department of Finance and Deregulation – Open Source Software Policy. It will be interesting to see which agencies (if any) will take implement Open Source solutions and which ones they will [...]

Have your say to help shape Australia’s cultural future. The Commonwealth Government has established a web forum to gather our ideas for the development of a national cultural policy. A discussion framework is available on the site as well as a transcript of Peter Garrett MP’s address to the National Press Club, in which he [...]

The Queensland State Government has approved the use of Creative Commons licences for intellectual property generated by its departments.  This came about as part of A Government Information open access and use strategy and is expected to be a precursor to the Australian Federal government following with a Creative Commons licences for data generated at [...]