Author: Joseph Brookes

Accenture’s business register bill at ATO nudges $200m

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The tax office is paying Irish-headquartered tech services giant Accenture more than $70,000 a day for work on its business register upgrade, with the company’s total bill for the...

Jason Clare outlines Aust Research Council funding review

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Ministers’ power to veto research funding will be scrutinised as part of an independent inquiry into the role and function of the Australian Research Council, announced by Education minister...

Research advocate Gabrielle Upton to quit NSW state politics

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Eastern Sydney Liberal MP Gabrielle Upton will quit state politics at the next election. Ms Upton led the taskforce responsible for government’s current focus on research and development in...

Big Blue: ServicesAus $50m private cloud server upgrade

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Services Australia will spend $50 million to upgrade its five-year-old private cloud server fleet to IBM Power midrange hardware for use across the agency. The upgrade comes through a...

Army beefs up training rations for SAP roll-out

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The Department of Defence is ramping up investment in training army personnel in SAP software over the next 18 months, as hundreds of its business processes are consolidated on...

TikTok back in the Parliament’s firing line

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TikTok’s data security is back under scrutiny in Australia after global executives confirmed Chinese employees had access to information on US users. Both the government and the Opposition are...