Conroy keeps Comms, Lundy advises PM

Julia Gillard has rewarded pro-censorship minister Stephen Conroy with a continued post as Minister for Communications.

Several of Stephen Conroy’s harshest critics have backed the idea that Julia Gillard should hand his Communications portfolio to fellow Labor Senator Kate Lundy this morning.

Kate Lundy, the long-time challenger to the unpopular Senator Conroy, has swung her support behind Julia Gillard for Prime Minister in this morning's Labor leadership spill.

Stephen Conroy has retained the Communications portfolio in newly-installed Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s first Cabinet.

Prime minister Julia Gillard and communications minister senator Stephen Conroy will this morning preside over a ceremonial switching on of the National Broadband Network in Armidale NSW, following trials over the past month with a handful of Armidale households.

Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Government Tech PolicyIt is not only Prime Minister Julia Gillard who has been making news in the Big Apple. Senator Stephen Conroy was also in town, taking about telecommunications and red underpants.

With Labor wallowing at all-time low in the polls, Kevin Rudd must be wondering if the popular Kate Lundy could have done a better job than his blundering communication minister.

The Federal Government today claimed it had "made history" this morning after it officially launched live services on its flagship National Broadband Network project on the mainland, in a ceremony attended by Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy and a host of other parties associated with the telecommunications sector.

Stephen Conroy has pilloried a campaign by the IT community to unseat him and have a more competent IT minister installed by Julia Gillard.