Michelle Rowland says cabinet guidelines stipulate that full-time chief executive roles,including the top jobs at the ABC,SBS,and Australia Post require the prime minister’s approval.
A revenue stream worth about $200 million a year for Australian news providers is at stake at a time when they say they need fair compensation.
The government is calling on consumers and impacted businesses to have their say on the Optus outage that affected some 10 million Australians.
The opposition leader will on Friday seize on Communications Minister Michelle Rowland’s reluctance to immediately commit to minimum age rules.
Communications Minister Michelle Rowland has put her trust in the pornography industry to shield children from harm,rejecting the eSafety Commissioner’s advice.
Communications Minister Michelle Rowland will on Wednesday announce an expansion of rules that social media firms must follow to avoid penalties.
New documents show a barrage of criticism from industry caused the government to delay its bill.
An executive from the company that contributed to the Optus outage left a Canadian telco less than two weeks after it suffered an almost identical outage last year.
Communications Minister Michelle Rowland has flagged significant changes to proposed misinformation laws,delaying the introduction of a final bill to parliament until next year.
The nation’s second-largest telco suffered the worst outage in recent memory,affecting millions of customers. Here’s the inside story of what happened.
The telecommunications industry ombudsman warned she was prepared to force Optus into large compensation payments if it refused to settle claims.