Tag: Modernising Business Registers

Budget pours $1.8bn into critical govt IT systems

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The Albanese government will spend another $136.1 million upgrading the legacy systems behind the country’s business registers, bringing new money for the latest attempt at the long-running rebuild to...

ASIC turns to outsourcer to deal with legacy registry issues

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Contractors will step in to replace retiring public servants tasked with keeping Australia’s business registers online, exposing the workforce cost of maintaining its legacy environment. As the latest uplift...

ATO secures $61m to move ahead with ERP overhaul

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The Australian Taxation Office will move forward with its planned enterprise resource planning overhaul after securing almost $61 million to develop a second pass business case. The new funding,...

$450m Budget lift for business registers, digital health

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The Albanese government has thrown more than $200 million behind the latest attempt to upgrade the country’s antiquated business registers, as legacy tech risk climbs across the Commonwealth. A...

Business data spine salvage mission underway

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The corporate regulator is preparing a fully costed roadmap for a business “data spine” that could underpin a $1.3 billion salvage mission from the registry overhaul frozen by the...

ASIC sets sights on business ‘data spine’

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia’s corporate watchdog has shed light on ongoing efforts to investigate a ‘data spine’ of business and company data, one of the core benefits of the registry overhaul scrapped...

Tech wrecks, $15bn industry fund shortlisted for audits

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Multi-billion dollar tech projects across Defence and the Tax Office as well as the government’s protocols for keeping them on track could go under the audit office’s microscope later...

Thousands of company directors in breach of law on ID

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
As many as 300,000 company directors are operating without a mandated digital identification, in breach of a new scheme designed to crack down on illegal phoenix activity. The non-compliance...

Lessons from Canberra’s latest tech catastrophe

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
If it wasn’t already obvious, this week’s report into Australia’s scuttled business registers transformation has left no room for misinterpretation. The case for large-scale technology projects in government no...