Multinational management consulting firms have enjoyed an extraordinarily good year in Canberra. Federal government spending on advice and services from the global outfits soared by hundreds of millions of...
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The dollar value in government contracts awarded to Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey doubled in 2020, with both large US management consultant firms enjoying a sharp increase in federal...
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The value of consulting giant Deloitte’s contracts with the Digital Transformation Agency increased by more than 1,000 percent in 2020 over the previous year, with the company’s overall government...
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None of the government entities recently examined by an Australian National Audit Office review have fully implemented the mandatory cyber security risk mitigation strategies developed eight years ago to...
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Artificial intelligence experts will advise the NSW government on how the technology should be used by the state through an AI advisory committee revealed Wednesday. Initially the group will...
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The government has declined to name the companies that were selected for a panel last year to work on the myGov redevelopment project, while responsibility for contracting for the...
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Services Australia has been “run down” by a reliance on outsourcing and private contractors which has led to substandard ICT delivery programs, the public sector union says. In a...
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The federal government has awarded a UK company a $11 million contract to deliver biometrics technology as part of its digital identity program. The Australian Taxation Office signed the...
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It is important to mark milestones and to celebrate successes. This is how most of us maintain forward momentum in important work. But when the ‘success’ is so lame...
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The Victorian government’s decision to “part-privatise” key elements of VicRoads has been criticised by the services union, which called on the plan to be scrapped and the tech work...
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A youth case worker stood down from a Victorian health department service provider on suspicion of accessing child pornography continued to access sensitive information about clients for months afterwards,...
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Australian governments and tech platforms who are at loggerheads should take a step back and compromise, according to Salesforce Australia chief executive officer Pip Marlow, who says “stakeholder capitalism” has...
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The public sector union has urged the federal government to reconsider its latest attempt to outsource the development of a visa processing platform, labelling it another “rush to use...
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Local startup HealthEngine has won the federal contract to deliver a COVID-19 vaccination bookings platform, just months after the company was fined nearly $3 million for misleading conduct. HealthEngine,...