INDUSTRY and Innovation Minister Kim Carr has appointed a career bureaucrat with expertise in urban planning to head the newly created Built Environment Industry Innovation Council.

INNOVATION Minister Kim Carr has appointed geoilogist and former BHP Billiton technology vice-president Megan Clark to head the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).

BRITISH ICT expert Sir Peter Gershon has completed his final report in the independent review of the Australian Government’s use of ICT and has delivered its conclusions to Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner.

THE Gershon inquiry into how the Australian Government buys and manages its information technology would result in greater central control, Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner has told The Australian newspaper.

AN industry association of Telstra competitors has charged Telstra with “gaming’ the competition regulator in a “cynical exercise” aimed only at frustrating its competitors and creating regulatory delays.