Legislation drafters’ cloud shift broke procurement rules


Joseph Brookes
Senior Reporter

The Commonwealth entity in charge of drafting and publishing Australia’s laws repeatedly breached procurement rules in a $13 million project to shift Australia’s most important legislation register to the cloud.

The struggles are outlined in an audit tabled on Monday that shows the project blew past its original $4.2 million budget and was running four years behind schedule when the new register launched last January.

The audit reveals how a …

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