Author: Joseph Brookes

Verifiable credentials: Shorten hunts for ‘fool’s gold’

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Australia’s largest bank and a medical centre have signed on to test Canberra’s verifiable credentials project, which is promising to harden the nation against cyber attacks and scams by...

Review of ‘rock bottom’ R&D waiting on govt sign-off

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A sweeping review of Australia’s faltering research and development system won’t be completed for at least a year, as government and overall R&D investment levels slump to record lows....

DISR restarts Entrepreneurs’ Program corruption inquiries

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The Industry department has reopened its investigation of a procurement scandal involving its defunct $484 million innovation program after the matter was passed back to it by federal police...

Dept fumbled messaging as jobseeker glitch slows reporting

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The Employment department has conceded its automated messages telling jobseekers to work around a government tech issue or risk losing their payments was wrong and has updated the message....

$562m aged care tech overhaul off course from the start

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The federal government’s overhaul of aged care technology was poorly planned and beset by delays as consultants and foreign software vendors were handed more than half a billion dollars....

Jobseekers ‘pay the price’ for latest govt tech bungle

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Jobseekers are being asked to adjust their reporting to employment service providers to avoid a government tech glitch or risk losing their payments, shifting more burden onto vulnerable people....

Consulting giants take $900m hit under Labor

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The Big Four consulting firms and Accenture received almost $900 million less from federal agencies last year compared to the Coalition government’s final 12 months, data to be released...

Defence and tech lead Canberra’s $528m insourcing drive

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Technology and Defence contractors account for most of the $528 million in outsourced work that federal agencies will bring back in house this financial year under Labor’s directive to...