A critical minerals reserve proposed for Australia in the wake of sweeping US tariffs on global exports is “not intervention, it’s support”, Resources minister Madeleine King has declared. “…...
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Federal government agencies that missed a key AI transparency deadline earlier this year have now largely fallen into line, with just two mandatory declarations still outstanding across the public...
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Spending on external consultants in the Victorian government has returned to 2018 levels, with new data released by the state’s auditor-general showing a sharp drop off in work last...
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The federal government has opened the consultation process for an independent review of its seven technology mega-deals, collectively worth more than a billion dollars each year. The review of...
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The NSW Electoral Commission is pressing the state government to allow it to recycle unspent funding on “urgent” fixes to legacy systems, as it awaits money for a more...
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Accenture’s contract to build an aged care platform was overstated by almost $18 million and only corrected six months after the work was completed, in one of the biggest...
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Almost two dozen instances of SAP across the federal government rely on twenty-year-old software that is set to lose mainstream support in 2027, setting up a mass migration and...
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Innovation and science have been excised from the Western Australia public service, with the government dropping the words from the title of a key department as part of a...
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The federal government’s in-house consulting unit’s new funding is only for one year and the total amount of that funding will remain undisclosed, officials revealed Thursday after Budget papers...
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Australian government officials were banned from using Kaspersky after at least one agency was found to be using the antivirus software seven years after an informal ban came into...
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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...
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As the Albanese government books another $720 million saving on external labour, the analysis that triggered the cull is getting a refresh amid warnings of mounting tech work and...
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The Finance department must start taking action to lift contract management capability across the public service, an inquiry has found after examining a string of contracting failures and scandals....
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Encrypted messaging apps are in widespread use by bureaucrats with little guidance on information governance, according to a first of its kind report that has raised doubts about legal...