Confidential Salesforce pricing information was accidentally leaked to Microsoft in a 2019 tender for the National Disability Insurance Scheme’s new customer relationship management system, documents reveal. The blunder forced...
Public Sector
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Home Affairs officials, consultants and technology suppliers will be asked to explain a failed visa privatisation attempt, its abandoned replacement and their controversial procurements to Parliament’s powerful audit committee....
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The records of 11,000 National Disability Insurance Scheme participants and other related parties have been compromised in a data heist from inside the National Disability Insurance Agency. A Sydney-based...
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New data centre facilities servicing the federal government will be expected to have a top energy rating by mid-2025, as part of the Australian Public Service net-zero by 2030...
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Australia will have dedicated privacy, information and freedom of information watchdogs next year after the Albanese government announced the appointments of state regulator Elizabeth Tydd and human rights lawyer...
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The long-awaited report from the Parliamentary committee Inquiry into the Culture and Capability of the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) has landed. And it is steaming. After ten years...
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The state government is shutting down media access to its annual tech event, barring journalists from reporting on senior officials’ presentations about how technology is being deployed at some...
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Salesforce is charging Australia’s disability insurance agency for user licences that the agency does not use, under contract costs that have quadrupled to more than $100 million and has...
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Australia will be one of the first countries in the world to deploy generative artificial intelligence across a national public service, with the Prime Minister announcing a partnership with...
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Automated decision-making will come under greater scrutiny in the wake of Robodebt, with the federal government pledging to new oversight arrangements for automation in service delivery while it contemplates...
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A company being paid $31 million to deliver commercialisation advice on behalf of the government used inside advice to land the job and then helped a family member’s company...
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Less than a third of technology projects submitted for review by the federal government’s digital investment cop last financial year were closely enough aligned with Cabinet approved policies and...
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The New South Wales government will spend more than $1 billion over the next decade on a new digital health record that promises to deliver patient visibility for clinicians...
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The Albanese government’s in-house consultancy is up and running, with a dozen public servants now advising agencies on foreign affairs and the net zero economy in two short, sharp...