Kate Lundy became the youngest Labor representative in the Senate and the youngest women ever elected to represent
the ALP in Federal Parliament when, at age 28, she was elected as the Labor Senator for the Australian Capital Territory
in March 1996.
In August 1997 Kate was promoted to the Opposition front bench; appointed as the Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for
Sport and Tourism as well as assistant to the Shadow Ministers for Information Technology, Youth Affairs and the Arts.
Following the 1998 federal election, Kate Lundy was appointed Shadow Minister for Sport and Youth Affairs as well as
Shadow Minister Assisting on Information Technology. Kate Lundy is the youngest woman shadow minister in Labor
history.
Kate is an active member of several Parliamentary Committees, including the Senate Committees on Finance and
Public Administration and Environment, Communications Information Technology and the Arts.
She is also a member of the Joint Standing Committee on the National Capital and External Territories and the Presiding
Officers’ Information Technology Advisory Committee.
Check Kate's website at http://www.katelundy.dynamite.com.au/ for more details including speeches, campaigns and media releases.
An Illustrated History of Early Australian Computers.
"An Illustrated History of Early Australian Computers" is a unique talk
about a
field in which Australia has, at times, been a world leader.
This talk specifically looks at Australian computing, which has a proud
record
going back to the ATL totalisators of the 1920's. Australia also has the
worlds
oldest, intact, computer - CSIRAC, currently celebratilng its 50th birthday.
During the 1960's a number of unique computers were entirely designed and
developed in Australia - SNOCOM (for the Snowy Mountains scheme),
CIRRUS (at Adelaide University), DIP (for the Woomera rocket range),
Microbee (for schools) etc.
These computers are illustrated with slides selected from Australia's finest
collection of early computing photographs.
Max Burnet
He joined Digital Equipment Corporation Australia in 1967, and spent 31
years with them, to become the longest serving employee in Australia.
During that time he sold hundreds of the early mini-computers in Australia.
He opened Digital's Melbourne office in 1967 and their Adelaide office in
1971. During the period 1975 to 1982 he was Managing Director of Digital in
Australia. In later years he managed Digital's local content projects.
For twenty years he managed Digital's user society, DECUS, which had up to
5000 loyal members.
In 1998 he took early retirement a few days before the Compaq takeover, not
wishing to be compaqted.
During his time at Digital, he collected a museum of all the early DEC
computers and was known around the company as "Museum Max".
In 1993 he was one of 15 pioneers featured in Computerworld Newspaper's
"Pioneers of Australian Computing" booklet.
He has established a company called BACK Pty Ltd, which is Burnet Antique
Computer Knowhow - and plans to use his museum collection to provide for
porting of old media and all manner of technical, educational, historical
and
display activities.
Max lives at Pennant Hills, NSW in a house which contains 16 computers, much
ethernet and 11 operating systems, and a collection of antique Hornby
trains.
He has a 27 year old son (who appears for pay and rations) and an nine
year old daughter who is the joy of his life.
Keynote: Senator Kate Lundy
Labor Senator for the ACT
Shadow Minister for Sport, Youth Affairs and Assisting on Information Technology
Locknote: Maxwell M. Burnet BSc (hons)
Max Burnet graduated from Melbourne University with a BSc (hons) in
electronics in 1962. He then spent 4 years at the Weapons Research
Establishment in South Australia.
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