Budget pours $1.8bn into critical govt IT systems


The Albanese government will spend another $136.1 million upgrading the legacy systems behind the country’s business registers, bringing new money for the latest attempt at the long-running rebuild to more than $400 million in just three years.

The funding, revealed in the 2026 federal budget on Tuesday, is part of more than $1.8 billion that the government plans to spend on sustaining and upgrading critical IT systems over the next …

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