Victoria has become the second Australian state to appoint a minister for artificial intelligence, as part of a new frontbench unveiled by newly installed Premier Ben Carroll. Former police...
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Federal agencies have signed more than $1 billion in new contracts for Microsoft software licences and cloud services in the past 30 days as sweeping multi-year government subscriptions are...
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Productivity-boosting artificial intelligence tools would be “mandated from the top down” within the New South Wales government under new tech reforms proposed by the Coalition. The platform would hand...
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Capgemini will be paid more than $150,000 a day for the next year to sustain the aged care technology platforms it helped build for the federal government over the...
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One of Canberra’s biggest departments will leap from SAP to Workday and ServiceNow in a $39 million enterprise resource planning shift to be delivered by Accenture over the next...
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Canberra’s reliance on “long-lived, business-critical ICT systems” could soon face renewed scrutiny, with the national audit office weighing up an investigation alongside reviews of several other major tech projects....
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Construction has begun on the long delayed $100 million centrepiece of Adelaide’s Lot Fourteen innovation precinct, which the state government has flagged as central to local work on the...
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Australia’s telco regulator has called for the government to beef up its investigative powers so it can compel companies to prove they have complied with laws and regulations in...
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Some of the federal government’s largest technology suppliers offered public officials almost $500,000 in gifts and hospitality in a single year, a review triggered by a Salesforce scandal has...
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Companies behind botched federal government digital projects now face being named on a new underperformance register, in a sign Canberra is taking a tougher stance on the tech sector’s...
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An outsourced technology project to operationalise new political donation disclosures and election spending cap laws has more than doubled in contracted costs to almost $67 million in six months,...
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Legislation to reform the National Disability Insurance Scheme opens the door to another robodebt disaster by handing the government unprecedented powers to automate discretionary decisions and limit review rights,...
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The federal government will pay Microsoft more than $100 million just for technical support over the next three years, dwarfing the costs of a previous support deal with the...
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New money for legacy system upgrades and high performance computing platforms used for data-intensive policy challenges are among the initial projects funded through the Queensland Government Digital Fund. Tuesday’s...