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...
Global consulting giant PwC is assessing government grant applications as part of a near-$2 million contract with the Industry department which the public sector union has branded “outrageous and...
The federal government will pay Irish-domiciled consulting multinational Accenture nearly $60 million to develop a “permissions capability” platform which will initially serve to digitise incoming passenger declaration forms. In...
The industry department will pay two US consulting giants nearly $2 million in just over a month for “core” department work, with the public sector union saying this is “wasting...
The federal government’s reliance on contractors and consultants for key COVID-19 response work is “out of control” and is not building capability for the next major crisis, the public...
The federal opposition has accused the government of being “wilfully blind” to the use of labour hire within the public service, amid growing concerns about the over reliance on...
The tech system underpinning the National Disability Insurance Scheme is still in its “infancy” despite being launched nearly a decade ago, and this was compounded by the agency being...
Services Australia has a “serious problem” with its tech capabilities and ICT expertise, with staff often forced to rely on sending information through the post and unstable legacy systems,...
The key agencies tasked with delivering the government’s billion-dollar digital spend are facing staffing and funding cuts, leading to concerns the funding will flow straight to private contractors and...
The public sector union has urged the federal government to reconsider its latest attempt to outsource the development of a visa processing platform, labelling it another “rush to use...