B211 Self-Test Week 8

Current Affairs Self-Test - Week 8

The following are excerpts from newpaper articles. Read the excerpts and answer the question below each excerpt.

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AUSTRALIA has been earmarked for a campus of the prestigious... Media Laboratory.
Senior executives from the Boston-based lab have met Australian government and industry representatives to flesh out plans and determine how it would work with existing R&D programs.
The facility would provide a focus for high-level research into the effects of technology on society.
Such an Australian facility would be the second Media Lab campus outside the United States, after Media Lab Europe, established in July 2000 in Dublin, Ireland.
Locating such a lab in Australia would represent a coup for Australia, bringing the world's most famous research think-tank to the Asia-Pacific region.

The Media Lab from which institution is the above refering to?

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HIGH-SPEED internet and mobile services remain the chief concerns... according to the man in charge of an inquiry into Telstra.
Dick Estens, the Moree cotton farmer who is heading the inquiry into Telstra's service levels... told ABC radio yesterday: "Most of the submissions revolve around data speed, which seems to be heading the pack, and mobile phone coverage."
Telstra's new CDMA network has been criticised since it was built three years ago to replace the original AMPS analogue network.
The Estens inquiry is taking submissions to evaluate Telstra's level of service in the areas ahead of the Government's plan to fully privatise the carrier as early as next year.

Which geographical parts of Australia is the inquiry above looking into?

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AUSTRALIANS have rushed to snap up more than a thousand 'generic' .au domain names that opened for registration at 11am today.
The .au Domain Authority (auDA) released about 1300 unsold generic domains - from abortion.com.au to zinc.com.au - for registration this morning.
More than half the domains were registered within half an hour, according to an independent website providing live updates of the sale. By 3.30pm all but 343 of the domains were registered.

What was the regulation for registering generic .au domain names under the previous system?

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