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...
Public Sector
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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,...
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Defence contractors are working on projects involving highly classified data without having the adequate security clearance due to assurance issues with the department’s security vetting program, an audit has...
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OPINION: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a boom for tech companies, even in Australia, as working from home, isolation and lockdowns have driven increased digitalisation. Given that —...
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Opinion: When it comes to sweeping new national security powers, Australia does not have a Opposition political party. Time and time again over the last decade, the two major...
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United Australia Party MP Craig Kelly’s ‘spam’ text messages to thousands of people across the nation highlight the need for reform to privacy, spam and electoral laws, experts say....
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Australian developers have been forced to go it alone to keep the government design system running after it was abruptly ditched by the Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) this month,...
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OPINION: As the government turns its thinking to a vaccination passport or similar, it would do well to learn some of the lessons from COVIDSafe. COVIDSafe illustrates the need...
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IBM representatives were present and involved in decisions at several meetings related to a major Defence information technology project which resulted in the company receiving contract amendments worth nearly...
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The federal government is paying global consulting giant PwC nearly $1 million per month across 2021 to assist with its troubled COVID-19 vaccine rollout, under a previously secret contract...
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The federal government has paid consultants nearly $13 million to assist with its new visa processing system before a contract has even been signed, with many of the same...
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The Data and Digital Ministers’ Meeting on Friday has agreed to the first ever national program of work on data sharing between jurisdictions and outlined the initial priority areas...
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Now before people @me, I have long advocated for a far-reaching agenda for a ‘digital transformation’ institution. More on that shortly, but we are way off track. Even at...