Concerns are growing over the total cost of a new climate data platform being built by Accenture, after an official was unable to provide the figure on Monday and...
Public Sector
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Documents produced by the Senate last week offer a rare look into how one of the government’s biggest tech suppliers leveraged its partner deals and chopped up its pricing...
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The Albanese government will spend another $136.1 million upgrading the legacy systems behind the country’s business registers, bringing new money for the latest attempt at the long-running rebuild to...
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A scattershot approach to data management in federal agencies is harming productivity, increasing cyber risks and could disrupt the output of the government’s upcoming artificial intelligence tools, new research...
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A decade-long upgrade of New South Wales’ core policing system will cost another $493 million and take four years more to complete, a damning audit of the troubled project...
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Digital services across dozens of government departments could face disruptions this weekend as worker at major tech supplier walk out again over allegations the company has systemically underpaid its...
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Australia’s financial intelligence agency will continue to rely on controversial US tech firm Palantir for core software for up to another six years as its duties grow to monitor...
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A cocktail of models from OpenAI, Anthropic and French AI startup Mistral are serving up answers to federal public servants through an early-stage trial of the Albanese government’s generative...
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Jordan Hatch is a general manager at Services Australia, leading a team of 300 responsible for digital services used by millions of Australians every day, across myGov, Centrelink and...
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The Victorian government has thrown more than $200 million behind a multi-year upgrade of the state’s police and child protection IT systems in a budget that delivers the first...
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Companies bidding for federal government contracts will soon have to disclose any planned use of artificial intelligence and take responsibility for its output, under new procurement rules set to...
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Datacom has renewed a valuable contract managing the competition watchdog’s tech services, potentially extending its long-standing relationship with the agency into a third decade. The New Zealand-born tech firm...
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The rapid expansion of Australia’s digital health database has more than doubled the cost of certifying the credentials of organisations that use it, new contract disclosures show. Services authenticating and...
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Across all of the many federal departments and agencies, is there a technology shop more unusual than that of the Department of Parliamentary Services? For a start, Parliamentary Services...