TikTok will be banned on Australian government-issued devices over cyber security and foreign interference fears, following similar bans of the Chinese social media platform by other Five Eyes nations....
Public Sector
Posted on
| by Justin Hendry
The federal government is preparing to renegotiate its software licensing arrangement with German tech giant SAP, after one contract connected with the deal ballooned almost eight times its original...
Posted on
| by Joseph Brookes
The suppliers and government agencies linked to an emerging lobbying scandal may be called before a parliamentary inquiry within weeks to explain the influence of a consulting firm linked...
Posted on
| by Joseph Brookes
The Department of Home Affairs spent more than $500 million on “failed ICT outsourcing projects” in recent years, according to the public sector union, which has accused the department...
Posted on
| by Joseph Brookes
Government officials approached only one supplier in $472 million worth of technology procurements tainted by a developing lobbying scandal. Many of these were marked as “open tender” despite only...
Posted on
| by Joseph Brookes
A fifth of the government procurements linked to an alleged lobbying scandal involving tech suppliers and former minister Stuart Robert had either conflicts of interest, poor value for money...
Posted on
| by Justin Hendry
Past efforts to address “less impressive” forms of artificial intelligence have helped the New South Wales government respond to the challenges and opportunities presented by ChatGPT, according to the...
Posted on
| by Justin Hendry
Ernst & Young will be paid another $7.2 million over the next three months to ramp up work on the federal government’s enterprise resource planning system less than three...
Posted on
| by Brandon How
The Senate will investigate conflicts of interest, integrity issues and other unethical behaviour at management consultants working for government, after the Greens successfully pushed for an inquiry. The Finance...
Posted on
| by Joseph Brookes
A New South Wales Labor government would overhaul state procurement to give more consideration of the domestic supply chains and flow on benefits local suppliers create, while also introducing...
Posted on
| by Joseph Brookes
The Australian Freedom of Information Commissioner handpicked by the Morrison government two months before the election has resigned just a year into the job, saying he does not have...
Posted on
| by Justin Hendry
NSW Labor will cut government spending on external contractors by 25 per cent and use the $1.6 billion in savings to improve essential services like education and health if...
Posted on
| by Justin Hendry
A restructure of the Department of Home Affairs is being progressed to reorientate the national security agency around issues of cybersecurity and foreign interference amid a worsening geopolitical environment....
Posted on
| by Joseph Brookes
New South Wales government agencies broke procurement rules, failed to manage contracts and increasingly used only a handful of global giants while handing more than $1 billion to consulting...