Tag: contractors

Senate to probe Greens’ dodgy contractor bill

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
A Greens bill to stop unethical contractors from winning government work will go under the microscope, keeping alive the prospect of national debarment scheme in a stronger response to...

Contractor and consultant tracking switched on

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Department of Finance has launched a tool to track labour hire staff and management consultants across government, promising a new layer of integrity after a sprawl of temporary...

All Albanese’s innovation sweeteners from the election

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
With Anthony Albanese and Labor claiming a decisive victory at the weekend’s election, attention now turns to the second-term government’s ambitious agenda for the next three years. Buffeted by...

Outsourcing crackdown saves NSW $450m

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
A squeeze on external consultants and individual contractors by the Minns government has saved the state nearly half a billion dollars, NSW Finance minister Courtney Houssos announced over the...

ATO to save $32m on tech outsourcing

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The Australian Taxation Office will cut tech outsourcing by $32 million, with the agency’s adoption of artificial intelligence and other automation technologies to be increasingly delivered in-house. The decline...

Sky-high IT contractor costs at weather bureau

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia’s national weather agency forked out more than $400 million on external contractors for its long-running IT upgrade – the full cost of which has never publicly been revealed....