All Territory Departments are linked via x25.
The Australian Capital Territory Education Information Network (ACTEIN) program is an initiative funded by the Australian National University (ANU), the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA), the University of Canberra and the Australian Catholic University - Signadou campus. This is a pilot program to introduce the Internet to the ACT K-12 education environment.
In May 1994 the ACTEIN pilot program began with provision of dialup IP Internet access to 16 primary and secondary schools and the O'Connell Education Centre (the ACT education resource centre) located in Canberra, Australia.
This service is supported by a gopher server and a web server.
The most directly applicable paper is- Kidston, John CITEC - A link between Government Networks and the Internet.
This paper should be available online shortly.
The Queensland Government, as a participant in a co-operative arrangement between the Governments of Australia, applies standard terms and conditions relating to the acquisition of information technology and telecommunication (IT&T) products and services; ie. the Government Information Technology Conditions (GITC). Detials of this are mounted on the QUT gopher service.
It is significant that the Premier's department has this role and so far this appears to be the highest 'level' of Government presently with direct internet representation.
Their server is still under construction and most of their information is still served through their gopher server which is similar to many university CWIS systems.
The Departmental attitude to this service can be asseses by the observation that it provides links to information service on the game of cricket but little on the internal functions of the Department
It also supplies some information on the Department of Treasury & Finance The service is maintained by Michael G. Brown who is Joint Chair of the Communications, Distribution and Data Interchange Working Group which presumably is the Tasmanian equivalent of their IESC.
Claremont College also maintains a web server with assistance from the University.