Tag: Services Australia

Services Australia tech chief heads for the exit

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Services Australia CIO Charles McHardie is leaving the agency for the Reserve Bank of Australia after more than six years running Canberra’s biggest IT shop. Mr McHardie will take...

Canberra’s six-week Microsoft splurge nears $2bn

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Federal government Microsoft contracts are closing in on $2 billion in less than two months, with dozens more agencies signing on to new multi-year contracts under the latest iteration...

Services Australia sinks another $110m into IBM mainframes

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Services Australia has poured almost $110 million more into its ageing IBM mainframes to keep critical services like Medicare and Centrelink running, after a failed upgrade in 2023 forced...

Automated welfare compliance saga hangs over budget

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australia’s automated welfare system remains an “unquantifiable” liability, with the government bracing for compensation claims for invalid decisions stemming from a malfunctioning IT system and failures to administer social...

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...

Verizon re-inks My Health Record certification deal

Posted on   |  by David Allen
The rapid expansion of Australia’s digital health database has more than doubled the cost of certifying the credentials of organisations that use it, new contract disclosures show. Services authenticating and...

Charles McHardie takes a deep dive at Services Australia

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Charles McHardie is among the best known faces among the Commonwealth’s technology leadership, responsible for the operations at Services Australia, one of the biggest IT shops in the country....