The federal government bypassed the national science agency in outsourcing key modelling work for its net-zero plan to the US-based multinational consulting McKinsey at a cost of more than...
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Home Affairs is paying international consultants Ernst & Young $2.5 million to help establish its cybersecurity hub because it lacks the “capacity and specialist knowledge” to do it in-house....
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The steady rotation of ministers through the industry portfolio has caused only “minimal disruption” to the Industry department, officials fronting Senate Estimates have said, alongside a government minister who...
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After a week and a half of Nationals Party meetings and negotiations, Australia’s Long-Term Emissions Reduction Plan has been released. David Havyatt asks whether the plan is worth all...
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COVID-19 in Australia has done more than expose different government approaches to managing the pandemic and the challenges of our federation model. It has also exposed the way in...
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The federal government will again attempt to pass legislation criminalising the illegitimate re-identification of public sector data sets, despite its attempt to do this five years ago stalling due...
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The Labor plan to use government’s massive procurement budget to build domestic industrial capability and capacity by directing more of the spending toward local companies has been welcomed by...
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Shadow Industry minister Ed Husic has called on governments to attach industry development goals and economic growth outcomes to procurement decisions, whether it’s in relation to large-scale infrastructure projects...
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The industry portfolio has been split in two following Christian Porter’s fall from grace, with Defence Industry Minister Melissa Price taking on the extra responsibility of science and technology and...
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Australian governments are working to incorporate federal vaccination certificates into state and territory check in apps and are cooperating on home quarantine for fully vaccinated people as states and...
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Accenture has been handed more than $11 million to make “enhancements” to My Health Record across this financial year, with the Irish-domiciled multinational now paid nearly $641 million over...
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The federal government outsourced more than $5 million of technology work to manage its international travel exemptions for one year, including large IT contracts where only a single provider...
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The federal government is paying a global consultancy firm nearly $2 million for two reviews of the Department of Industry’s commercial operations and corporate services, with the latter to...
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OPINON: There’s a passage in Ernest Hemingway’s novel “The Sun Also Rises” in which a character named Mike is asked how he went bankrupt. “Two ways” he answers. “Gradually,...