The controversial algorithm determining aged care supports could place older Australians in a “mental retardation” category as recently as last year, despite the term being phased out of practice...
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Federal agencies have been ordered to hunt down vulnerable legacy systems in their technology estates and set targets to reduce them, following the breach of a Medicare statistics portal...
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The agency established to deliver Australia nuclear-powered submarines has returned to Accenture for its managed services, handing the tech services giant another $14.5 million. The deal follows a $13.4...
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Anthony Albanese says an OpenAI agent went rogue and “infiltrated” a Medicare portal containing statistics on health expenditure data, accessing both public and non-public data. The incident, which happened...
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The Australian Tax Office has almost a decade of experience with machine learning and big data. It’s chief information officer is still cautious about deploying generative artificial intelligence. So...
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The Albanese government has been ordered to name the IT companies blacklisted on its new contractor underperformance register on a rolling basis, in a move that could expose the...
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The Bureau of Meteorology has returned to Palo Alto Networks for its firewall through a $15.8 million deal through reseller NTT, locking in the US solution for almost the...
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Western Australia’s government has launched a review of its procurement framework in a bid to cut red tape it says will hand more contracts to small businesses and better...
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The Bureau of Meteorology will upgrade from its ageing SAP enterprise software, with new contractors and eventually a systems integrator to deliver the modernisation project over at least three...
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The NSW government procurement lead was tepid on Wednesday about whether a systematised response is needed to new warnings that consultants are operating unchecked across the state government. The...
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Canberra is tightening its grip on billions of dollars’ worth of tech spending, unveiling a set of principles that will be used to assess its whole-of-government mega-deals with the...
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American tech services giant Leidos has claimed the key component in the federal Health department’s prized outsourcing deal with a $91 million three year contract, ending Datacom’s 12-year run...
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Salesforce looks set to remain the core case management system for the National Disability Insurance Scheme, with the agency in charge moving to protect the system from data loss...
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Services Australia CIO Charles McHardie is leaving the agency for the Reserve Bank of Australia after more than six years running Canberra’s biggest IT shop. Mr McHardie will take...