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ZDNet Australia was at the forefront of covering the issues of the 2010 Australian Federal Election campaign. The team's extensive coverage and insights into the 2010 campaign trail covered issues central to the tech industry audience and voters including broadband policy, the NBN, the mandatory internet filter and political party policies. With the ZDNet Australia editorial team delivering more than 110 stories, podcasts and blogs for ZDNet's tech industry and savvy audience, this community provided passionate feedback to articles on forums and via Twitter with talkback numbers in the hundreds.

In an industry first, ZDNet Australia partnered with Allure Media to deliver a live broadcast panel event called TechLines, which revolved around the theme "Email is Dead". The web TV show debuted on ZDNet Australia on August 12 achieving a peak live audience of 2,000 and over 7,000 total views. The debate sparked conversation among the Twitterati, with over 750 tweets from the #tlines hash tag on event day.

IT Jounrno Awards: At the 6th Annual IT Jounrno awards, the ZDNet Australia and the CBS Interactive Australia team walked away with a number of awards.

In October 2007, ZDNet Australia partnered with Sky News to present an election debate between Senator the Hon. Helen Coonan and Senator Stephen Conroy. The debate was web cast live on ZDNet Australia and complemented by a comprehensive election feature focusing IT and telecommunications issues.

Mr Cesare Tizi, former CIO of AGL Energy, was named ZDNet Australia�s CIO of the Year in October 2007.