Bureaucratic and technical jargon obscured critical risks to Defenceās troubled clearance system from top brass and ministers, while contractors were able to influence the direction of outsourced work. Thatās...
The lone technology supplier for the national health record system ācapturedā the government agency responsible for it in an arrangement that is taking years to unpick but could be...
Canberraās $15 billion tech panel is being routinely exploited by officials, who use it as a veneer of competition when handing hundreds of millions of dollars to their preferred...
Investigations have been launched into more than a dozen officials and contractors at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Tradeās Australian Passport Office over its cowboy procurements. The probes...
Australiaās biggest medical research funding agency will start gaining independent assurances of grant recipientsā fraud risks and mandate reporting of suspected incidents, following a misconduct scandal and a critical...
Parliamentās powerful audit committee will run the ruler over public sector AI use after it was revealed the technology was being deployed widely last year without governance frameworks in...
Defence is conducting a sweeping review of how it authorises ICT systems and will report annually to ministers on compliance after an audit revealed almost none of its systems...
The national audit office has shifted its managed services deal to a smaller local supplier xAmplify in a new $7.7 million agreement expected to bring automation to keep up...
The national audit officeĀ has flagged a potential review of the federal governmentās use of specialist investment vehicles in the wake of its controversial deal with Californian quantum startup PsiQuantum....
Defence bypassed procurement rules for its trouble-plagued $199 million security clearance system, granting only Accenture the opportunity to develop a āsolution to a budgetā, an audit has found. The...