As a former minister for Innovation Industry Science and Research, as well as Higher Education, I welcome the Ambitious Australia (the strategic examination of R&D) final report’s proposition that...
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Victorian Premier Jacinta Allen has unveiled a reworked cabinet seven months out from the next election, with Steve Dimopoulos to assume the economic growth and jobs portfolio that has...
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The Department of Finance has settled on German software giant SAP for its future enterprise resource planning system, returning to the same technology that underpinned the failed GovERP program....
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In October this year, Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) chief executive Chris Fechner will have been in the role for five years. He will become the agency’s first CEO to...
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The 40-year-old mainframe behind Australia’s social security system now costs $126 million a year just to operate and support, and some of its supporting funding is running dry despite...
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Digital Transformation Agency chief executive Chris Fechner has cast doubt on federal adoption of a NSW-style ‘if not, why not’ procurement reforms to boost SME participation, warning that free...
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Contractors will step in to replace retiring public servants tasked with keeping Australia’s business registers online, exposing the workforce cost of maintaining its legacy environment. As the latest uplift...
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Charles McHardie is among the best known faces among the Commonwealth’s technology leadership, responsible for the operations at Services Australia, one of the biggest IT shops in the country....
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Welcome to Delivery: A GovTech Podcast! In this first episode, we talk to the Department of Finance’ chief AI officer Paul Hubbard about the structures and priorities behind the...
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With episode one dropping on Wednesday, Delivery: A GovTech Podcast gives listeners and readers an insight into the people and organisations running government’s most sophisticated tech operations. The public...
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Embedding AI tsars across federal government agencies risks creating another layer of bureaucracy without the ‘tiger teams’ to make them effective, former NSW digital minister Victor Dominello says. “It’s...
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Technology workers at one of the federal government’s biggest IT outsourcers will walk off the job this week as a long-running pay dispute at DXC Technology gives way to...
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Accenture has won a $15.7 million Bureau of Meteorology contract to build a new website for the Australian Climate Service, despite the consulting giant’s troubled track record on the...
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The Australian Taxation Office has called in KPMG to support its enterprise resources planning overhaul, handing the consulting giant a near $2 million contract just months after securing $61...