The federal government’s in-house consulting unit’s new funding is only for one year and the total amount of that funding will remain undisclosed, officials revealed Thursday after Budget papers...
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Australian government officials were banned from using Kaspersky after at least one agency was found to be using the antivirus software seven years after an informal ban came into...
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The Albanese government has thrown more than $200 million behind the latest attempt to upgrade the country’s antiquated business registers, as legacy tech risk climbs across the Commonwealth. A...
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As the Albanese government books another $720 million saving on external labour, the analysis that triggered the cull is getting a refresh amid warnings of mounting tech work and...
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The Finance department must start taking action to lift contract management capability across the public service, an inquiry has found after examining a string of contracting failures and scandals....
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Encrypted messaging apps are in widespread use by bureaucrats with little guidance on information governance, according to a first of its kind report that has raised doubts about legal...
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The national auditor is contemplating a review of the federal government’s $22.7 billion Future Made in Australia plan, more than half of which is earmarked for critical minerals and...
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A new report has confirmed the Bureau of Meteorology’s mammoth tech upgrade is ongoing and will take at least a year and $36 million more than when the project...
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As many as nine major digital projects in Canberra are off track and will require significant changes if they are to meet their targets, a new report by the...
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Costs for Salesforce software and services at the National Disability Insurance Agency have reached $143 million and may rise again within weeks despite serious concerns about the management of...
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The equivalent of 754 Services Australia staff have completed procurement and contract management training in the wake of a scandal involving the agency that was referred to the corruption...
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The federal government has for the first time defined an ‘Australian business’ for procurement purposes as part of a multi-year project to extract more benefits from its $80 billion...
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Parliament’s powerful audit committee has called for a whole-of-government approach to managing the use of artificial intelligence across the public service and has sought the creation of a new...
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The idea that it could take more than two years to come up with a definition for what constitutes an Australian company would be considered laughable by right-minded Australians....