The Albanese government looks set to unveil its in-house consultancy project at the May budget, with several options that consider the failings of the United Kingdom’s recently scrapped equivalent...
Public Sector
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Services Australia is planning no further cuts to its technology contractor workforce this year after shedding 1245 workers in late 2022 and standing down more over the Christmas and...
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The current review of government technology procurements linked to a lobbying scandal engulfing former Services minister Stuart Robert is being structured in a way that could trigger wider reforms....
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Federal Labor’s Minister for Government Services Bill Shorten has been in quiet, evolving talks with the retiring NSW state Liberal minister Victor Dominello about taking a national role with...
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“Technocrats” and a lack of user testing are to blame for the Parliament’s delay-plagued expense management software upgrade, which will be without a key transparency feature for a year,...
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The use of ChatGPT in the public service is not being encouraged by the Digital Transformation Agency, although it is supportive of experimentation using generative AI technologies to explore...
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Australia’s clean energy watchdog will spend more than $22 million bringing in six ‘scrum’ teams to deliver several projects by July, as the agency builds out its technology for...
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The New South Wales government has prolonged the life of its cloud software deal with Salesforce ahead of the state election, providing agencies with access to the arrangement for...
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They make an odd couple, but in a brief 15-minute press conference in Sydney last week, Bill Shorten and Victor Dominello outlined more progress on federal-state cooperation on government...
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A relatively small group of suppliers have dominated the Digital Marketplace set up by the federal government to encourage competition, new data shows. Just 12 per cent of its...
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The David Thodey-led myGov user audit is a glass half full review of a system that has struggled for a decade to get even close to its potential for...
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The Tax Office has renewed its main cybersecurity support deal with Macquarie Telecom’s government arm at a cost of $32.7 million, as it battles as many as three million...
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Canberra’s largest government agencies have stuck multi-year deals with IBM worth more than $350 million following the arrival of the renegotiated whole-of-government agreement earlier this month. The Department of...
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Spending on contractors at New South Wales’ biggest government agencies has doubled since the start of the pandemic, climbing from just over $600 million to more than $1.2 billion...