David Olsen

Digital free-to-air TV signals will be broadcast to those in remote and regional Australia from a satellite to cost taxpayers $375.4 million over the next 12 years.

The National Broadband Network (NBN) received a funding boost in last night’s Federal Budget, with the Rudd Government allocating additional funding to implement the NBN through to 2014.

CSR has posted a net loss for 2010 of $111.7 million, an improvement on the $326.5 million loss in 2009, a 66 percent improvement for the company.

Small business owners have received the predictable federal budget they needed to continue to climb out of the wake of the global financial crisis.

The $500 standard tax deduction announced in the Federal Budget tonight is a fraction of the average currently claimed by taxpayers.

Small business is crying out for much needed tax reform that was missing from last night’s Federal Budget, with small business overwhelmed with regulatory burden.

Amongst the Budget announcements last night was the unveiling of the most significant changes to GST since its introduction by former PM John Howard in 2000.

Senator Stephen Conroy has been appointed by the United Nations as a founding member of the Broadband Commission for Digital Development.

Telstra will release a ‘Royal Purple’ version of Research in Motion’s BlackBerry Pearl 3G to Australia exclusively later this month, with BlackBerry seeking to liven up it’s staid corporate image.

Matthew Tukaki, the former head of Drake Australia, has said that employers needed to start acting in January to retain key talent, with the latest survey showing employees leaving in droves.