Centrelink staff will go on strike next week over the ongoing robo-debt fiasco with morale hitting rock bottom as a result of the program. Department of Human Services employees...
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The sector’s most senior advisory board Innovation and Science Australia has unveiled a landmark review that tells us much about what we already know: We are pretty good at research...
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Last week we published our one hundredth newsletter, and what a ride it has been. The innovation and digital transformation space that we report on has been incredibly busy....
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Australia’s regional cities make the perfect testing environment for larger ‘smart city’ policies and projects, and should be used to deploy pilot programs before scaling public investment, according to...
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NBN Co is a text book example of why Government Business Enterprises (GBE) attract criticism. In 2017, the company’s government-appointed senior management team is set to bumble along with...
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The City of Sydney is about to release a new digital strategy – but even before release, it has been dismissed as lip service to genuine innovation. Councillor Jess...
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Wyatt Roy has landed his first full-time role following political defeat at last year’s federal election, with the former assistant minister for innovation to lead a billion-dollar artificial intelligence...
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An unpleasant stoush has broken out between Australia’s largest local government authority, Brisbane City Council, and Australia’s largest indigenous software supplier, TechnologyOne. The Council says TechnologyOne is not delivering...
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It has been an extraordinary start to the year for digital transformation in the public sector. Certainly the very real failings of the Centrelink automated debt recovery system have...
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We seem to have travelled a long way to get not very far in relation to the digital transformation of Australian Government services. It’s in pieces. The notion of...
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In mid-December last year, then US President-Elect Donald Trump invited America’s leading technology executives and entrepreneurs to his golden eyrie in Trump Tower “I’m here to help you folks...
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The idea of smart cities has been around for a decade or more. In recent years, with the rise of the Internet of Things, the term has increasingly become...
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Hundreds of protesters gathered in Melbourne on Tuesday afternoon to fight the automated Centrelink debt recovery system, vowing maintain the rage until the program is abolished and Ministers Alan...
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The Victorian Government has contributed a further $4.9 million in funding to seven local projects aimed at growing the startup and innovation sectors as part of the second round...