The Hon Michelle Rowland MP

The Government welcomes today’s Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) findings that the design and award of funding for election commitments through the Improving Mobile Coverage Round (IMCR) was…

The Albanese Labor Government is ensuring older Australians can confidently and safely use the internet and digital technology, through an extension to the Digital Literacy for Older Australians program – known as Be Connected. …

The Albanese Government has delivered an additional $67.5 million in the 2024-25 Budget as part of our second tranche of reforms to crackdown on scammers. 

Australians will have greater certainty about access to voice and broadband services as a result of new Albanese Government reforms passing through Parliament overnight.
 

Social media has a civic responsibility to its Australian users and our society more broadly.

I thank honourable members who contributed to the debate on the Communications Legislation Amendment (Prominence and Anti-Siphoning) Bill 2023. 

The Albanese Labor Government is connecting and protecting Australians, with a key focus on tackling the scourge of scams, improving safeguards for children online, and narrowing the digital gap for First Nations communities. 

The Albanese Government will move to establish a Joint Parliamentary Select Committee into the influence and impacts of social media on Australian society.

The Albanese Government is delivering on its election commitment to audit mobile coverage and capacity around the country, with the pilot audit underway and an initial tranche of data published today.
 

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) must have regard to how it can promote greater competition, support the continuity of services and support greater investment in rural and regional Australia as part…

CEO of NBN Co Limited, Mr Stephen Rue, has advised the NBN Board of his resignation, following six years in the role and more than a decade with the company.