Tag: Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit

Govt tech fails dragged into visa platform procurements inquiry

A parliamentary inquiry into the federal government’s failed upgrade of visa technology has been expanded to include other trouble-plagued IT projects from the last six years, dragging more public servants and suppliers into the firing line. The Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit in November announced the inquiry into the...

Parliament to probe botched visa platform procurements

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Home Affairs officials, consultants and technology suppliers will be asked to explain a failed visa privatisation attempt, its abandoned replacement and their controversial procurements to Parliament’s powerful audit committee....

Salesforce met with Robert ahead of $100m NDIA tender

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Salesforce held multiple meetings with former Government Services and NDIS minister Stuart Robert and Synergy 360, the controversial consulting firm linked to him in the lead up to a...

Salesforce is charging govt for licences no one uses

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Salesforce is charging Australia’s disability insurance agency for user licences that the agency does not use, under contract costs that have quadrupled to more than $100 million and has...

Calls for annual reviews of APS cyber resilience

Posted on   |  by James Riley
A government-led parliamentary committee has called for annual reviews to be conducted into the cyber resilience of Commonwealth entities with many departments and agencies still not having implemented baseline...