The National Reconstruction Fund remains without an investment strategy almost two years after it was established, according to the first audit of the entity in charge of the $15...
The federal Health department has been locked in a year-and-a-half long legal battle over whether it owns software developed by subcontractors, after the consultancy that sat in the middle...
Half a dozen external procurement advisers were paid $88 million to assist the tax office with sourcing its major IT managed services, after the deals blew out more than...
A program to re-source $3.7 billion worth of managed technology services at the tax office has been marred by conflicts of interest involving the agency’s chief information officer and...
A scathing Auditor General’s report into maximising Australian industry participation in Defence procurement contracts has drawn mixed reaction from local industry, which called for changes to the way Defence...
The national auditor is contemplating a review of the federal government’s $22.7 billion Future Made in Australia plan, more than half of which is earmarked for critical minerals and...
The Australian Taxation Office is building and deploying AI models in-house without centralised policies and guidance for public servants, exposing it to legal and ethical risks, the auditor-general has...
The national auditor has cleared a multi-million dollar blowout on legal advice for the federal government’s investment in Californian quantum startup PsiQuantum, concluding that the key due diligence contract...
Almost two dozen federal government agencies using artificial intelligence were without internal policies governing its use last year, and more than 40 had no assurance arrangements in place, an...
Bureaucratic and technical jargon obscured critical risks to Defence’s troubled clearance system from top brass and ministers, while contractors were able to influence the direction of outsourced work. That’s...