Tag: Government services

Shorten vows to break vendor stranglehold on govt services

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Services minister Bill Shorten wants a new approach to his agencies’ policy design and implementation through a more capable public service that takes fewer leads from tech vendors and...

AIIA calls for Cabinet-level digital super-Minister

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Australian Information Industry Association has called on the next federal government to combine the functions of the Digital Economy minister and the Government Services minister into a single,...

DTA shifted to employment minister

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Digital Transformation Agency has been returned to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet less than two years after being moved to the Social Services portfolio, but the...

Tech portfolios are where the bodies get buried

Posted on   |  by James Riley
What does it say about this government’s attitude to science and technology that the Prime Minister ‘buries’ his two most controversial Cabinet members by giving them tech-heavy portfolios, regardless...

Shorten picks up Gov’t Services

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Former Labor leader Bill Shorten has been soft-landed into the shadow Cabinet in the challenging NDIS and service delivery portfolio, while the experienced Brendan O’Connor takes an expanded brief...