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Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy

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The Australian Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy is a former department of the Government of Australia that was charged with the responsibility to help develop a vibrant, sustainable and internationally competitive broadband, broadcasting and communications sector and, through this, promote the digital economy for the benefit of all Australians. [1]

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Australia Post

The Australian Postal Corporation (formerly Commission), operating as Australia Post, is the government-owned corporation that provides postal services in Australia.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) founded in 1929 is Australia's national broadcaster, funded by the Australian Federal Government but specifically independent of Government and politics in the Commonwealth.

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Australian Communications and Media Authority

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is an Australian Government statutory authority within the Communications portfolio.

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Australian dollar

The Australian dollar (sign: $; code: AUD) is the currency of the Commonwealth of Australia, including its external territories Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and Norfolk Island, as well as the independent Pacific Island states of Kiribati, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.

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Broadband

In telecommunications, broadband is wide bandwidth data transmission which transports multiple signals and traffic types.

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Broadcasting

Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves), in a one-to-many model.

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Canberra

Canberra is the capital city of Australia.

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Department of Communications (2013–15)

The Australian Government Department of Communications was a department responsible for helping to develop a vibrant, sustainable and internationally-competitive broadband, broadcasting and communications sector in Australia and promoting the digital economy.

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Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts

The Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts was an Australian government department that existed between October 1998 and December 2007.

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Digital economy

Digital economy refers to an economy that is based on digital computing technologies.

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Drew Clarke

Andrew Leigh Clarke is a former senior Australian public servant who served as Secretary of several departments and as Chief of Staff to the 29th Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, before his retirement in April 2017.

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Government of Australia

The Government of the Commonwealth of Australia (also referred to as the Australian Government, the Commonwealth Government, or the Federal Government) is the government of the Commonwealth of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy.

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Minister for Communications (Australia)

The Australian Minister for Communications has overall responsibility for broadcasting, the information and communications technology industry, the information economy, and telecommunications within Australia.

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Ministry (government department)

A ministry is a governmental organisation, headed by a minister, that is meant to manage a specific sector of public administration.

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NBN Co

NBN Co Limited (trading as nbn) is an Australian government-owned corporation tasked to design, build and operate Australia's National Broadband Network as a monopoly wholesale broadband provider.

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Patricia Scott (public servant)

Patricia Scott is a senior Australian public servant and policymaker.

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Peter Harris (public servant)

Peter Noel Harris is a senior Australian public servant.

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Special Broadcasting Service

The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) is a hybrid-funded Australian public broadcasting radio, online, and television network.

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Stephen Conroy

Stephen Michael Conroy (born 18 January 1963) is a former Australian politician who was an Australian Labor Party member of the Senate from 1996 to 2016, representing the state of Victoria.

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Dbcde, Department of Broadband, Communications and Digital Economy, Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (Australia).

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Broadband,_Communications_and_the_Digital_Economy

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