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Everybody is alarmed by the small-business failure rate, but no one seems sufficiently bothered to do much about it. Even the federal Government has tax barriers preventing potential small-business owners from easily accessing information that could be the difference between success and failure.

Normal, sensible people will find the following stupendously stupid: if a would-be small-business owner went to an accountant for advice before setting up a business, and commissioned an expert to draw up a business plan, it could prove a struggle to claim these costs as tax deductions.

Special Minister of State Gary Nairn has vehemently backed the use of standards for Australian e-government frameworks during the keynote address today at the AusCert 2006 conference.

However, figures released at the conference, on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, show a decreased use of standards in both the public and private sectors.

Mit einem breit angelegten RFID-Vorhaben reorganisiert das australische Verteidigungsministerium seine weltweiten Logistikprozesse.

In einem Pilotprojekt testet die für Logistik zuständige Behörde Defense Material Organization (DMO) verschiedene Typen von RFID-Tags, die auf Transportpaletten eingesetzt werden sollen. Die DMO zeichnet für die komplette Beschaffung des australischen Militärs verantwortlich, vom Küchenpapier bis hin zur Raketenmunition. Sie unterhält mehr als 50 Standorte weltweit.

Australia has provided a further $7.3 million to support the expansion of an Internet enterprise that provides innovative, web- based solutions for effective aid and e-government in developing countries - the Development Gateway Foundation.

The funding will be provided over three years and will be used to support the creation of aid management tools, e-government grants management, global online knowledge-sharing communities and support for a network of locally-owned web-related services.

Australian government agencies are designing an emergency operations system to synchronise disaster responses and, they hope, to save lives.

Hazwatch, a prototype system, is being trialled in Western Australia, Queensland, Victoria and NSW for counter-terrorism, bushfire fighting and search and rescue incidents.