Alleged procurement conflicts of interest between former government services and NDIS minister Stuart Robert and a consulting firm co-owned by a “longtime friend, business partner and political fundraiser” have...
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The rise of generative artificial intelligence has created a new sense of urgency for the federal government to review the uniformity of its countless official websites, according to the...
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Services Australia chief executive Rebecca Skinner, who oversaw the delivery agency through a tumultuous period of Covid, the robotdebt recovery, and the upgrade of the myGov portal, will retire...
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The welfare payment calculator built at a cost of $191 million to replace a 40-year-old Centrelink system before being junked by Services Australia was defect-ridden and slower than the...
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IBM has secured almost $900 million in federal work through its renewed whole-of-government sourcing agreement in less than nine months, with a new mainframe at the Tax Office pushing...
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Accenture is mapping government officials, their relationships and “social styles”, sharing it within the tech services firm to prepare bids for lucrative government contracts. The firm — which has...
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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...
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The federal government’s upcoming data and digital strategy will be accompanied by an iterative implementation plan so the new guidance stays relevant through technological changes and can guide new...
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Clauses in existing legislation that let Commonwealth departmental secretaries outsource ‘decision-making authority’ to computers is like leaving a “hand grenade with the pin out”, a regulation and governance specialist...
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The Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) is on notice to show it has moved past a “cowboy” culture that saw it break procurement rules and fall short of ethical requirements...
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US cloud giant Oracle has unveiled a new physically isolated cloud region in Canberra it says goes further than its competitors are willing to go and could one day...
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A government-led parliamentary committee has called for the Department of Finance to expedite the creation of a procurement profession within the Australian Public Service to address the “significant capability...
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Stuart Robert met with the tech multinational that would go on to win a lucrative government contract on four occasions during the procurement process, without public servants or probity advisers...
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The Australian Taxation Office urged then-PwC boss Luke Sayers to “personally review the internal emails” in 2019 while raising concerns about the conduct of the firm’s tax division. The...