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• Laws lack checks: experts.

  - 2007-07-04

  Byline: Connie Levett Jul 04, 2007 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) -- A legal expert, Professor Clive Walker, claims that Australia's anti-terrorism laws lack some of the crucial aspects of British laws. According to Professor Walker, many of the Australian laws...

  Tags: Australia, Government, professor, terrorism, University of New South Wales

• Using federal laws to push through mines.

  - 2006-04-18

  Apr 18, 2006 (Environmental Business - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Professor George Williams is director of the Gilbert & Tobin Centre of Public Law at the University of New South Wales. Williams says it would be optimal for Australia's governments to reach a compromise on...

  Tags: Australia, Government, SOFTWARE, University of New South Wales, uranium, Williams

• Franchisees wear failure of franchisor.

  - 2006-02-27

  Byline: Damien Lynch Feb 27, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian franchisees could be in trouble if their franchisors fail. The University of New...

  Tags: Australia, Government, MARKETING, Regulations, University of New South Wales

• Flaws seen in the Dawson formula.

  - 2003-05-20

  May 19, 2003 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) A section of Australian business has labelled the Australian Government's Dawson report response "a big fraud". The National Association of Retail Grocers of Australia NARGA says the Government's attitude to small business has...

  Tags: Australia, flaw, Government, Litigation, Manufacturing, University of New South Wales

• Business, terror and a police state.

  - 2002-12-08

  Dec 08, 2002 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) Civil liberties in Australia appear to have been forgotten in some recent items of legislation. The "Security Legislation Amendment Terrorism Bill" has been passed with amendments and the Australian Parliament is due to...

  Tags: Australia, Government, terrorism, University of New South Wales

• Call to free science from fee deterrent.

  - 2002-06-26

  ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Australian Academy of Science believes that Australia needs to set research priorities with a broad vision of the future. Academy secretary, Michael Barber, said setting the targets was linked to the present debate on higher education reform. He said he did ...

  Tags: Australia, Government, Strategy, University of New South Wales

• Victoria loses ICT bid to ACT and NSW.

  - 2002-05-24

  May 23, 2002 The Age ABIX via COMTEX -- The successful bid for the Australian Government's National Information & Communications Technology Centre has been announced. The $A130m management contract has been awarded to the Australian National University and the University of New South...

  Tags: Australia, FINANCE, Government, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, SSL/TLS, Strategy, University of New South Wales

• Unis go in to bat for research.

  - 2002-05-22

  May 22, 2002 The Australian Financial Review ABIX via COMTEX -- Australia's $A129.5m Information & Communications Technology Centre of Excellence is to be highly competitive. The planned centre was inspired by the success of Stanford University in the US. On 22 May 2002, the...

  Tags: Australia, consortium, Government, SOFTWARE, Stanford University, University of New South Wales

• Giropost program to be extended.

  - 2001-08-14

  Aug 15, 2001 The Australian Financial Review ABIX via COMTEX -- More country Australian post offices are to offer basic banking services. The Australian Government announced on 14 August 2001 that it will extend its Rural Transaction Centre RTC program to cover an extra...

  Tags: Australia, bank, Banking, Government, University of New South Wales