This week, South Australian drug trafficker Domenic Perre was found guilty of the 1994 National Crime Authority bombing in Adelaide. Following a seven-month trial, Justice Kevin Nicholson found Perre...
Public Sector
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Missing data sharing policies, a government digital strategy not publicly updated since 2017, and a damaging reliance on consultants have been highlighted in a damning review of accountability within...
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The Department of Defence will pay Amazon Web Services and Microsoft nearly $12.5million over the next 15 months for ‘professional services’ to support Defence projects using the US tech...
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A newly-formed Victorian company was awarded a $30 million contract to provide commercialisation services to the federal government despite its bid being $13 million more expensive than the other...
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The Queensland state government is considering a mandatory data breach notification scheme among several privacy and information sharing reforms in the works. The scheme would force agencies to report...
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The department secretary in charge of the robodebt welfare debacle at its height Kathryn Campbell has been demoted from the ranks of top mandarins as part of Prime Minister...
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Serious issues in the Home Affairs department’s governance and enforcement of critical infrastructure protection have been exposed by the National Audit Office, which identified deficiencies in compliance activities, risk...
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Government research and development expenditure fell sharply as a proportion of GDP over the near-decade of Coalition power, leaving Australia behind comparable nations which are increasing their spend, according...
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The University of Melbourne will partner with the Victorian government to launch a $15 million fund targeting pre-seed startups, and has also announced a $100 million fund for later...
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Martin Hoffman has resigned as chief executive of the National Disability Insurance Agency after nearly three years in the role and just weeks after Labor’s election win. Mr Hoffman...
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The SMH published an article over the weekend that included some observations from the new Minister for Government Services Bill Shorten on his recent poor experiences using MyGov. This...
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Global giant Microsoft has walked away from negotiations with the Office of National Intelligence for the provision of a Top Secret private cloud service after more than a year...
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The sober ‘Notice to Industry’ issued by Defence outlining a plan to go to market for multi-vendor Secret Cloud Services belies the intensity of the scramble across the defence...
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Responsibility for the Digital Transformation Agency will go to the Department of Finance in the new Labor government, while oversight of the Digital Economy previously held by Senator Jane...