Tag: Thodey Review

Public sector technology is failing the public interest

Posted on   |  by Dr Lesley Seebeck
In the preface to the Report of the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme, Royal Commissioner Catherine Holmes reflects on how she was startled at the ‘myriad’ of ways...

Katy Gallagher on in-house consulting model for APS

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
An in-house consulting unit will be established within the federal government to provide professional services to agencies, reducing the reliance on external consultants, while contractors will be used “only...

Committee demands govt produce long-delayed ICT audit

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The government has been asked to immediately clarify the status of an urgently recommended audit of its technology spending and capability, after a year-long review of the Australian Public...

Delays cloud transparency over govt tech spending

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
There is a significant lack of transparency around the unprecedented jump in government IT investment, with ongoing delays to an “urgent” internal audit and a year long freeze of...

Gutting the APS created a diversity problem

Posted on   |  by Marie Johnson
In the early 2000’s, I remember sitting around conference tables with other government chief information officers and technologists. Female CIOs headed up Immigration, Centrelink, CSIRO, Industry, Finance and AGIMO...