Canberra’s mandarins must be going into Christmas wondering what just happened; major departments have disappeared (merged) and secretaries sacked with more changes to come. However, the signposts were there...
The Australian Data and Digital Council had agreed to national API standards to enable all levels of government – as well as outside third-party organisations – to more easily...
Services Australia will be up and running as an executive agency rather than a department from February next year, and the Department of Communications has been rolled in with...
The Coalition will move towards a whole-of-government technology architecture and more “agile” funding models for IT projects as part of what it calls a ‘revolutionary’ new Services Australia department,...
The government’s robo-debt about-face was made just two weeks before the legality of the scheme is set to be tested in Federal Court, and the day before the writ...
The federal government has earmarked $15 million to create a national disability dataset, on the back of plans to introduce a consent-free public sector data sharing scheme. The agreement...
The federal government has earmarked $15 million to create a national disability dataset, on the back of plans to introduce a consent-free public sector data sharing scheme. The agreement...
Centrelink has wiped clean the debt at the centre of a second Federal Court case challenging the controversial Robodebt data matching and debt recovery program. Victorian Legal Aid said...
The federal government’s proposed mandatory public data sharing scheme will not require consent from citizens and its own data authority will not be able to override a department’s decision...
Revelations that the federal government is paying McKinsey a standard “day rate” of up to $16,000 for senior partners to provide strategic advice on the design of government services...