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Filtered exports
14 July 2009 | MIS.Online | Julian Bajkowski
Just when a Minister of the Crown thought it was safe to release a vague document that flirts with being a digital economy policy, those anti-filtering fanatics have to wreck everything.
Nursed back to health
07 July 2009 | MIS.Online | Julian Bajkowski
Australia's marathon journey towards creating a national electronic health and medical records scheme took a small but important step towards becoming a reality last week.
Thodey and the state of the unions
30 June 2009 | MIS.Online | Julian Bajkowski
Just a year ago, it was unthinkable that one of the most openly belligerent companies in Australia would be looking to strike a peace deal with unions to secure certainty around its workforce.
Winter discontent
23 June 2009 | MIS.Online | Julian Bajkowski
Strutting his stuff for the cameras, the cop brandished a very bright yellow case, the sort of vessel used on shows like CSI to create the impression that something profoundly technical is going on.
The network we have to have
16 June 2009 | MIS.Online | Julian Bajkowski
The Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy portfolio has essentially become a single-message propaganda machine for the virtues of the digital plumbing industry.
The old card trick
02 June 2009 | MIS.Online | Julian Bajkowski
There's been plenty of friendly advice from banks and payment services about how to keep online transactions safe over the past year.
Taking out the garbage
27 May 2009 | MIS.Online | Julian Bajkowski
Environment Minister Peter Garrett has copped plenty over the past year for his less voluble contributions to ecological policy, but he still knows how to take out the political trash.
Cleaning out the conmen
19 May 2009 | MIS.Online | Julian Bajkowski
One of the biggest con jobs ever foisted on companies and the public sector was the notion that technologists inherently made poor business leaders and could not be trusted to run corporate strategy.
e-Health, Dr Strangelove style
05 May 2009 | MIS.Online | Julian Bajkowski
Welcome to e-health from the Dr Strangelove era.
Mind the media
07 April 2009 | MIS.Online | Julian Bajkowski
There's plenty noise around today's junking of the original $4.7 billion national broadband network in favour of something nearly ten times bigger, but in the digital media sector, the real fun is only just starting.
Respect and how to lose it
17 March 2009 | MIS.Online | Julian Bajkowski
When NAB pushed through its latest round of management musical chairs last week, there's a good chance the board wasn't thinking about the thorny issue of gender balances within its senior team.
The hidden costs of secrecy
12 February 2009 | MIS.Online | Julian Bajkwoski
Here's how the federal government's bogus pea-and-cup trick for delivering a claimed $60 million in savings on Microsoft licensing works.
Tweet from the top
13 November 2008 | MIS.Online | Julian Bajkowski
Chief Twitter Advisor, Office of the Prime Minister - now that's a job to really aspire to.
Nothing in, nothing out
16 September 2008 | MIS.Online | Julian Bajkowski
The IT sector didn't quite cotton on to what was going down in the Cutler review, a pretty serious stuff-up entirely of its own making.
Thin ain't in
10 September 2008 | MIS.Online | Julian Bajkowski
You can keep your skinny iPod nano