Amazon will face a “landmark” shareholder vote pushing the global tech giant to provide greater tax transparency in Australia and the other countries it operates, following continual accusations of...
Public Sector
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Amazon’s cloud business reported $600 million in revenue in Australia but paid only $16 million in tax in the 2020 financial year, with a global tax accountability organisation calling...
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It should not take Royal Commissions and class actions to remediate the intractable defects that exist within the NDIS, but the community demands justice and safety. So catastrophic is...
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The Coalition’s plan to cut more than $3 billion from the public service to pay for its election promises will lead to a jump in spending on consultants and...
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A myGov smartphone app is “on track” to launch at some point this year after private beta testing began last December. It’s been nearly three years since the federal...
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Multinational consulting giant Deloitte has been brought in to assist with the delivery of the federal government’s “historic” National Space Mission. The Industry department has entered into a $1.3...
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A key architect of myGov says he “despairs” at the lack of progress on the platform and that the outsourcing of the development of a new version to private...
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The Thodey review of the public service has been a “missed opportunity” so far, and a Labor government would “pick up and run” with its reform agenda, Shadow Treasurer...
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The first article in the series ‘Defending the NDIS’, looked at the horrific complexity caused by the actuarial fiction of ‘primary disability’. The second article zeroed in on the...
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In the first article in the series ‘Defending the NDIS’ – Complexity – I pointed to the actuarial fiction of ‘primary disability’ as the root cause of NDIS complexity....
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While the pre-election period saw a flurry of controversial appointments to plum jobs in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, numerous government-appointed leadership roles in Australia’s innovation and technology system have...
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The NDIS is a case study in the crucifying complexity of policy and service delivery. It is also a case study in the failings of digital government services. This...
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The tax office will pay Irish-domiciled tech giant Accenture nearly $3.5 million per month over the next year and a half for work on its large-scale project consolidating business...
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US tech giant AWS has had its whole-of-government sourcing deal extended and “enhanced”, after the value of its previous deal ballooned in value by more than 10 times to...