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$500k in vendor gift offers in one year exposed by DTA

Some of the federal government’s largest technology suppliers offered public officials almost $500,000 in gifts and hospitality in a single year, a review triggered by a Salesforce scandal has...

‘Horrified’ NDIA’s Salesforce probe drags past 2 years

10 October 2025 | by Joseph Brookes

The National Disability Insurance Agency has handed Salesforce almost $100 million in the two years it has been investigating suspected misconduct of its staff that involved the software giant....

Salesforce cracks another agency after courting officials

23 January 2025 | by Joseph Brookes

US software giant Salesforce secured a major contract with Export Finance Australia within weeks of courting the investment agency’s officials with free invites to a VIP gathering. A contract...

NDIA procurement scandal referred to law enforcement

6 January 2025 | by Joseph Brookes

The conduct of officials at the National Disability Insurance Agency has been referred to law enforcement agencies and regulators after a series of probes revealed secret meetings with ministers...

Gift sweep to explore tech giants’ ‘cultivation’ of officials

20 December 2024 | by Joseph Brookes

Gifts from tech giants to public officials will be cross checked and publicly reported from next year in an integrity clampdown prompted by a series of procurement scandals. Amid...

Salesforce staff evaded ethics office to shower govt gifts

5 July 2024 | by Joseph Brookes

A Salesforce ethics office set up to approve the software giants’ gifts to government officials cleared only three of the 112 gifts to the disability insurance agency around a...

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$500k in vendor gift offers in one year exposed by DTA

‘Horrified’ NDIA’s Salesforce probe drags past 2 years

Salesforce cracks another agency after courting officials

NDIA procurement scandal referred to law enforcement

Gift sweep to explore tech giants’ ‘cultivation’ of officials

Salesforce staff evaded ethics office to shower govt gifts

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