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The demand for Australian executives remains flat after many months of decline, according to the latest report from executive search firm E.L.Consult.

The Australian Academic and Research Network, AARnet, has received $6.55 million from the Commonwealth investment through Round 3 of the Australian Government’s Regional Connectivity Program (RCP).

Australian data centre services provider NextDC has kicked off the construction of its $80 million D1 Darwin data centre facility with a targeted completion and launch in June 2024.

Charles Darwin University (CDU) is hosting the Northern Territory’s first Research Bazaar this week, an event it says is aimed at supporting and enhancing research excellence across the globe.

Australian fibre and network solutions provider Vocus has connected a 1,000km submarine fibre cable worth $100 million linking the Australian Singapore Cable (ASC), which runs from Perth to Singapore, with the North-West Cable system that runs from Darwin to Port Hedland.

The Northern Territory Government has rolled out the first stage of its $259 million Acacia patient health record system at Katherine Hospital.

Job advertisements on the online portal SEEK in August were down by 5.3% month-on-month but up 55.9% year-on-year, the company says.

Media organisations in Australia, who are not awash in the green stuff, will have to fork out a goodly amount to hire moderators for their Facebook and other social media accounts - or face the likely prospect of paying damages for defamation or libel.

Online job advertisements on the site SEEK in March showed a rise of 75% year-on-year, the company says, offering a reminder that March 2020 was the month when the pandemic first had an effect on the job market.

Reconciliation Australia has dropped Telstra from its elite Elevate leaders group in the wake of the company admitting it had breached consumer law by selling post-paid mobile products to Indigenous customers.

Darwin is set to become the home of a new data centre operated by local indigenous-owned business Binary Security.

Telstra has been taken to court by the competition watchdog, the ACCC, over its admitted breach of consumer law through “unconscionable conduct” in the sale of post-paid mobile products to Indigenous consumers. 

A strong showing by Victoria has helped boost online job ads for October, the recruitment firm SEEK says, adding that though ads were up by 8.5% month-on-month, there was a 11.7% fall year-on-year, the lowest year-on-year drop since the beginning of the pandemic. Last month, the month-on-month growth was higher, at 9.25%.

Dell Technologies, along with ICT enabler Computer Aid International, has launched its Solar Learning Labs project in Australia with the first lab to be funded for delivery to an Indigenous community and to be rolled out next year, and a total of five planned by 2030.

The Australian Capital Territory has been ranked top among the states and territories in Australia when it comes to digital readiness, according to an annual ranking released by global networking giant Cisco.

Online job ad volumes across Australia over a two week period in September were 80% of pre-COVID levels - the highest national job ad figure since the pandemic began having an impact in March - with job ad volumes continuing to recover in most states and territories with South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania and Northern Territory all passing pre-COVID levels, according to a new report on the SEEK employment marketplace. 

Online jobs on the SEEK employment marketplace fell across the nation by 2.0% in August month-on-month, figures released on Thursday show, with the year-on-year drop a much bigger 29.1%. However, the year-on-year difference was the smallest since the beginning of the cornonavirus pandemic.

Telco Singtel Optus has reduced the price of its Optus Choice and Optus One plans by 20% for Australians in all 15 territories who take new connections.

Microsoft is partnering with Kakadu National Park rangers and Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, in a pioneering program mixing “responsible” artificial intelligence and modern science with traditional knowledge to solve complex environmental management problems, and care for animal species and habitats.

Optus has switched on two new mobile sites in the Northern Territory as it progresses work on its mobile blackspot program.