A proposed in-house consulting service for the Australian Public Service looks likely to be modelled on similar hubs introduced overseas that have produced encouraging early results. Finance minister Katy...
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Lighthouse logbooks and photographs of Darwin after tropical cyclone Tracy were among 850,000 at-risk records digitised by the National Archives last year after securing lifeline federal funding from the...
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A Microsoft licensing contract worth $56 million was not publicly disclosed by the New South Wales Department of Education for more than three years due to an administrative oversight...
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Australia’s innovation sector is stronger than ever but isn’t being matched by an appetite to innovate within government, according to former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who on Friday said...
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Four out of five individuals that participated in the InnovationAus.com 2022 Government Procurement Survey believe the process of selling technology to the federal government remains complex, difficult and slow....
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Australia’s privacy and information watchdog failed to meet key performance criteria around freedom of information and privacy investigations, as its workload jumped and staff attrition rate doubled the public...
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It is perhaps not widely known that every courtroom in the country is almost always open to the public. Whether it is hearing a murder trial, a fraud case,...
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The federal government has launched an independent review of the National Disability Insurance Scheme that seeks to improve outcomes for people with disability while putting in place a sustainable...
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300 data and digital training and employment opportunities will be offered in four regional cities from next year under a continuation of a Morrison-era program by the Labor government,...
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An in-house consulting unit will be established within the federal government to provide professional services to agencies, reducing the reliance on external consultants, while contractors will be used “only...
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PwC was paid more than $312 million through federal government contracts last financial year, capping off a three-year pandemic period where it’s Commonwealth business skyrocketed by 63 per cent....
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A parliamentary inquiry will examine the procurement culture in Canberra after a string of damning audits exposed a failure by federal government departments and agencies to obey mandatory requirements....
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Federal government procurement of information technology products and services is a massive potential lever for industrial policy. Depending on how those dollars are directed, that purchasing power can make...
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The contractor brought in to decommission the Northern Endeavor has taken control of the ageing oil vessel, after the Australian Government spent the last two years maintaining it because...