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News Archive - June 2007
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29th June, 2007 In a blow to business lobbyists and a boon to the unions, Kevin Rudd has given an "absolute guarantee" that AWAs would be scrapped under Labor.
Source: The Australian - Sid Marris
28th June, 2007 The Howard Government has announced a review of minimum standards for phones and internet services and the Universal Services Obligation.
Source: The Land
26th June, 2007 The Federal Government has gauranteed 100pc of Australians will have access to broadband in some form.
Source: The Land
26th June, 2007 John Howard, has promised the CDMA mobile network will not be switched off until an audit on the new Next G networks.
Source: The Age - Leon Gettler
25th June, 2007 Telstra's head of public policy, Phil Burgess, has put his seal of approval on Kevin Rudd's approach to telecommunications.
Source: The Australian - David Uren
25th June, 2007 We're not alone. Around the world, nations are enjoying unemployment rates of below 5 per cent.
Source: The Age - Ravi Bhatia
22nd June, 2007 Executives at the country's top telco want to silence talk of a fibre network.
Source: The Age
22nd June, 2007 Two breakdowns of the emergency triple-0 computer system this month left some calls in NSW unattended up to a day after they were received.
Source: The Australian - Ewin Hannan and Brad Norington
21st June, 2007 Start-up businesses have used the Howard's workplace laws to strike pay deals that remove such award conditions as penalty rates, meal breaks and shift loadings.
Source: The Age - Lisa Murray and Matt O'Sullivan
21st June, 2007 Deutsche Telekom has joined the race to build a multi-billion-dollar high-speed broadband network in Australia's major cities.
Source: ABC Online
20th June, 2007 Read over 1,100 viewer responses to Four Corners' Tough Calls programme on call centre culture and bullying.
Source: SMH - Lisa Murray and Matt O'Sullivan
19th June, 2007 Telstra has slammed the Government's decision to hand almost $1 billion to its biggest rival, SingTel's Optus.
Source: The Age - Malcolm Maiden
19th June, 2007 Telstra began a month ago to lose its campaign to head off a competitive tender to build a new optical fibre broadband network.
Source: The Age - Katharine Murphy
19th June, 2007 John Howard was yesterday forced to defend his $1.9 billion broadband plan.
Source: SMH - Ben Cubby
19th June, 2007 "We run an absolute dictatorship and that's what's going to drive this transformation and deliver results," says Telstra's chief operations officer, Greg Winn.
Source: The Australian - Ewin Hannan
19th June, 2007 Telstra managers were told to label union delegates as "dragons", inefficient employees as "submarines" and workers with a negative attitude as "savages".
Source: ABC-TV Four Corners June 18 - Quentin McDermott
19th June, 2007 On January the 24th this year, a 21-year-old Melbourne woman took her own life.
Source: The Age - Michelle Grattan
18th June, 2007 Ninety-nine per cent of Australians will be promised fast broadband under a plan to be announced by John Howard today — just slightly outbidding the 98 per cent Labor has pledged
Source: Herald Sun - John Masanauskas and staff writers
18th June, 2007 The family of Telstra linesman Leon Dousset believe pressures at work contributed to his decision to take his own life in March
Source: ABC Online
18th June, 2007 A former Telstra team leader has told Four Corners that Telstra bullies staff and sets punishing sales targets to cut costs and increase efficiency.
Source: The Age - Garry Barker
15th June, 2007 Telstra is to shed 244 admin jobs in Melbourne, Ballarat and Brisbane.
Source: The Age - Garry Barker
14th June, 2007 Trujillo has welcomed Communications Minister's proposed expert panel to consider rival bids to build Australia's next-generation FTTN.
Source: ACTU
14th June, 2007 The Howard Government intends to push more workers off award conditions and onto AWA individual contracts if it wins the next election a secret Government document has revealed.
Source: The Australian - Alia McMullen
13th June, 2007 Professionals can expect to see their wages jump by as much as 7 per cent over the next 12 months because of a critical skills shortage.
Source: The Age - Katharine Murphy
13th June, 2007 Telstra's plan to shut down its old mobile phone network early next year has been attacked by Federal Government MPs.
Source: ABC Online - Chris Uhlmann
13th June, 2007 The ACTU has devised an election battle plan to rally thousands of union members in marginal seats in a bid to oust the Federal Government.
Source: The Age - Michelle Grattan
12th June, 2007 Telstra is continuing to lash out as the Federal Government finalises its process for adjudicating between competing broadband networks.
Source: SMH - Peter Hartcher
12th June, 2007 Australia's living standards are in danger because it is not gearing up for the next level of web infrastructure.
Source: The Australian - Colin Brinsden
12th June, 2007 Employers were relatively stingy with their pay agreements, despite robust economic conditions, data released today shows.
Source: The Age - Garry Barker
8th June, 2007 Telstra says the FTTN broadband pricing formula the Optus-led G9 consortium proposes indicates its wholesale prices could rise by more than 100 per cent in five years.
Source: The Age - Katharine Murphy
8th June, 2007 Treasurer Peter Costello has launched a stinging attack on Telstra's outspoken lobbying against the ACCC.
Source: The Australian - Jennifer Hewett and Michael Sainsbury
8th June, 2007 Sol Trujillo has warned the Government that Telstra will cancel plans to build a high-speed fibre broadband network if there is no decision by the end of next month.
Source: Newcastle Herald
7th June, 2007 Telstra's latest job cuts and call-centre closures have triggered some deserved alarm bells in regional Australia.
Source: Illawarra Mercury - Tom Sturrock
7th June, 2007 Telstra's decision to axe most of its regional call centres has been condemned by unions and the Federal Government.
Source: The Australian
6th June, 2007 A spokesperson for Communications Minister Senator Helen Coonan said: "The Government has no plans to sell Australia Post."
Source: SMH
6th June, 2007 Any broadband joy the telco might have felt yesterday was soon countered.
Source: The Age - Malcolm Maiden
6th June, 2007 The ACCC will still be a player if the Government sets new rules for a tender to build a broadband optical fibre network.
Source: The Land
6th June, 2007 Telstra has locked in deals with major suppliers in a bid to beat the Optus-led G9 consortium, to roll out its $4-billion-plus high-speed broadband network.
Source: The Age - Meaghan Shaw
6th June, 2007 Five hundred jobs in Telstra's service faults and technical support areas will be lost over the next year.
Source: SMH
6th June, 2007 Hundreds of workers will lose their jobs when Telstra closes call centres in Wollongong, Canberra, Launceston and Newcastle.
Source: The Australian - Matthew Denholm and Chris Jenkins
6th June, 2007 Telstra faced widespread condemnation yesterday after announcing the closure of 13 call centres and the loss of hundreds of jobs from regional centres.
Source: Illawarra Mercury - Andrew Drummond
6th June, 2007 Telstra is to slash 88 Wollongong jobs in a move it claims will save money and improve customer service.
Source: Newcastle Herald - Donna Sawyer
6th June, 2007 Telstra has announced plans to close its Newcastle call centre, with more than 200 jobs to be axed by the end of the year at an estimated $7.5 million loss to the Hunter's economy.
Source: The Australian - Michael Sainsbury and Sid Harris
5th June, 2007 The Howard cabinet will today consider creating a panel of experts to examine options for a national broadband network.
Source: ABC Online
5th June, 2007 Australia's workplace laws will be studied by an international legal committee this week.
Source: SMH/AAP
5th June, 2007 Greg Winn delivered a testosterone-charged description of the new management style at Telstra. "We're not running a democracy. We don't manage by consensus”.
Source: The Age - Garry Barker
4th June, 2007 Telstra says that the Optus-led G9 consortium's FTTN proposal is "not real" but a "delaying tactic".
Source: The Age - Meaghan Shaw
4th June, 2007 Workers wanting to appeal against a compensation ruling under the Howard Government's new fairness test would have to go to the High Court.
Source: The Age - Garry Barker
1st June, 2007 The G9 consortium's submission on building a high-speed fibre-to-the-node network does "not remotely resemble a plan" says Telstra.
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