The Queensland Audit Office has criticised the rollout of the state’s generative AI assistant, QChat, after finding the Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) failed to implement basic...
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Services Australia has locked in more than $700 million in contracts with Telstra and Optus to secure telecommunications capable of handling billions of transactions over the coming years. The...
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Australia is backing a small Pacific nation to set up a pilot public cloud environment, as the federal government looks to deepen ties in the region and head off...
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South Australia has opened a new consultation on artificial intelligence tools, inviting tech vendors to contribute ideas that could shape a procurement playbook for government’s use of the technology....
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The Greens have called on the Albanese government to get behind a private members bill that would ban dodgy contractors from working with the Commonwealth for up to five years....
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Anthropic’s Claude is set to become the next locally hosted AI model available through GovAI, as the federal government fixes on a technology agnostic approach to boost the platform’s...
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Australia’s regulator of drugs and medical devices is planning to use artificial intelligence to speed up testing of new medicines already signed off in similar nations, as it comes...
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The cost of Salesforce at the National Disability Insurance Agency grew more than $30 million in six months despite serious concerns about the probity and management of the original...
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It’s not often a ‘tell us once’ digital strategy rates a mention by a federal Treasurer, let alone in the wake of a much-hyped economic roundtable aimed at fixing...
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Big Four consulting firms that have commercial agreements with software vendors would be barred from advising federal government agencies on technology projects under a proposal from TechnologyOne. In a...
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The Victorian government has renewed its state purchasing contract with Amazon Web Services, giving public servants an “enhanced” way to buy hundreds of cloud services from the hyperscaler. The...
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Federal government agencies may have barely scratched the surface with artificial intelligence, but those that have are increasingly finding themselves trapped in a cycle of endless proof of concept...
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Australia has been urged by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development to set up one or more investment funds to scale up digital government projects and help de-risk...
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The Queensland government’s new $1 billion digital fund is prioritising Software-as-a-Service and common platforms under the watch of a handful of public servants and a highly paid consultant. The...