Tag: CPSU

Agency pushback on proposed bans for unethical contractors

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Proposed legislation to ban unethical contractors from government procurement opportunities would introduce significant operational risks to technology delivery programs, the Digital Transformation Agency says. A private members bill put...

Sweeping AI plan to send tech across bureaucracy

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
All of Australia’s almost 200,000 Commonwealth public servants will be required to complete AI training and offered ChatGPT like tools to improve service delivery and policy development. The sweeping...

The skills gaps holding back a ‘future-fit workforce’

Posted on   |  by Suzanne Prescott
Australia is in the grip of a national workforce crisis, with persistent labour shortages hampering essential services, slowing economic growth and creating knock-on effects across nearly every industry.  While...

Up to 500 jobs to go at CSIRO’s enterprise arm

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia’s national science agency CSIRO will cut up to 500 staff from its enterprise services arm as part of restructure designed to reduce labour and operating costs by $100...

AI is cramping public servants’ careers, union warns

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Recruiters for Services Australia are using artificial intelligence tools that are passing over deserving candidates and can be gamed by applicants’ own use of AI, according to the public...

Govt digital passenger app only works a quarter of the time

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government’s $60 million Digital Passenger Declaration is “error riddled” and only works a quarter of the time, according to the public sector union. The Digital Passenger Declaration...