Junked $191m Centrelink calculator was ‘slow and defect-ridden’


The welfare payment calculator built at a cost of $191 million to replace a 40-year-old Centrelink system before being junked by Services Australia was defect-ridden and slower than the legacy system it was supposed to replace, a parliamentary inquiry has heard.

High-ranking public officials have also revealed that the project that began with Indian tech giant Infosys at the helm in 2019 would have required “large amounts” of additional funding …

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