Tag: Angus Taylor

Taylor launches tech super agency

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Turnbull Government has shredded its 15-month-old Plan A for digital service delivery, with a dramatic restructuring of the Digital Transformation Office into a new tech super-agency that has...

DTA a rose by any other name

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his McKinsey-trained mate Angus Taylor want to bring order and alacrity to the ever fraught world of government IT projects as the game shifts...

Launceston gets a City Deal

Posted on   |  by Margaret Lim
Launceston in northern Tasmania has been announced as the home of the Turnbull government’s second ‘City Deal’. The first, announced before the recent election, was Townsville. Western Sydney has...

Small biz: Disrupt or be disrupted

Posted on   |  by Stuart Kennedy
Down in the small business trenches these days the word is not so much ‘eat or be eaten’ as ‘disrupt or be disrupted’. Buzz phrase niceties aside, the effects...

DTO slows national identity plan

Posted on   |  by Beverley Head
The Digital Transformation Office (DTO) has applied the brakes to its national identity framework plans. In a letter sent to the 70-odd organisations that replied to its Request for...

Taylor charts new digital direction

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Prime Minister’s point-man on digital government Angus Taylor will today unveil a re-engineering of the Digital Transformation Agenda – one of Malcolm Turnbull’s signature policies – that will...

OpenOpp tracks gov’t SME progress

Posted on   |  by James Riley
As digital transformation investments reshape the way Australian governments deliver services to the public, it is also changing the way these governments engage with the tech industry and with...

Privacy lobby digs trench, sets gun

Posted on   |  by Beverley Head
An Australia Card scale row is brewing between the government and the Australian Privacy Foundation over the proposed national digital identity regime. The Australian Privacy Foundation (APF), which was...

A-minus for our first tech PM

Posted on   |  by Michael Sainsbury
If a week is a long time in politics, spare thought for the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who has now been in the job for a year. His expert...