The Digital Transformation Agency is exploring opportunities to reuse the National Disability Insurance Scheme’s new Salesforce CRM system elsewhere in government despite an ongoing investigation into the original procurement....
Public Sector
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Hundreds of automated decision-making systems have been found in the first mapping of the technologies across the NSW public sector, with most being developed without a specific regulatory framework....
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A slowdown in spending by the Albanese government is putting small tech companies at “real risk” of collapse and forcing agencies to rely on legacy systems for longer, the...
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Large businesses that miss gender equality targets will soon be barred from winning government work, as the Albanese government seeks to improve the equity of its suppliers and emerging...
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The New South Wales government is readying plans to complete its transition to Australia’s real-time payments system, with the digital foundations that will enable the shift already in place at...
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In an age where data and information reigns supreme, effective recordkeeping is the cornerstone of accountable governance. Yet, records practitioners across the country are collectively alarmed of the state...
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A parliamentary inquiry into the federal government’s failed upgrade of visa technology has been expanded to include other trouble-plagued IT projects from the last six years, dragging more public...
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Do you own or manage a small tech company in Australia? Do you sell products and services into the federal government? You have just days to make your submission...
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The Senator leading inquiries into government’s use of management consultants has put the spotlight on the relationships between Boston Consulting Group management and senior bureaucrats after a series of...
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Federal government policies that have become “diluted” through competing agency priorities have further entrenched the position of multinational tech companies in Canberra, making it harder for local companies to...
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Australia’s digital and data ministers have agreed to a national assurance framework for artificial intelligence that promises a consistent approach to the use of the technology across federal, state...
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Deloitte staff want a royal commission to investigate their toxic workplace, a “pyramid” business model, and a land and expand approach to government clients, a Senate committee heard on...
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The Department of Finance on Friday revealed it had received only 20 formal assurances from 236 consulting firms saying that they will not misuse the rates of competitors that...
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Government Services minister Bill Shorten has credited an incubator-style development process for the swift arrival of digital statutory declarations on myGov, an approach he believes offers a way forward...