Author: Joseph Brookes

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...

Panel beaters: Audit lays bare Digital Marketplace misuse

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Canberra’s $15 billion tech panel is being routinely exploited by officials, who use it as a veneer of competition when handing hundreds of millions of dollars to their preferred...

DFAT officials, contractors investigated over dodgy deals

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Investigations have been launched into more than a dozen officials and contractors at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Australian Passport Office over its cowboy procurements. The probes...

Landmark NRF startup deals within weeks

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The first investments from the Albanese government’s landmark $15 billion manufacturing fund will be revealed within weeks as part of series A or B raises of local startups. The National...

Govt urged to unshackle industry policy billions

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The Albanese government is being urged to amend its investment mandates and risk appetites to channel more of its landmark industry support to research and deep technologies after analysis...

Scandal and audit triggers tighter fraud controls at NHMRC

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Australia’s biggest medical research funding agency will start gaining independent assurances of grant recipients’ fraud risks and mandate reporting of suspected incidents, following a misconduct scandal and a critical...

$60m TAFE centre to build up clean energy workforce

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Federal and NSW Labor governments are committing more than $60 million to establish a clean energy manufacturing training facility in Newcastle to build up a workforce and new nation-wide...