The Robodebt Royal Commission has raised serious questions about ongoing practices within government in relation to the data exchange, data matching and data warehousing that was used to justify...
Public Sector
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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...
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Christine Tonkin is the Member for Churchlands in the Western Australian parliament. She has been in the role for a little more than two years. A member of Roger...
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Federal government guidance developed to provide public servants with a steer on the use of generative artificial intelligence entrusts agencies as the “arbiter of what is acceptable”, according to...
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Public servants have been warned that using generative artificial intelligence tools for service delivery and decision-making poses “an unacceptable risk to government” in new advice from the Digital Transformation...
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Two of the federal government’s most high-profile technology misfires of the past year, Defence’s myClearance vetting system and Parliament’s expenses management system, are to be examined by the Australia’s...
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Anyone who has spent time trawling through government tender and procurement data will know exactly how difficult it can be to extract genuine insights and broad market intelligence from...
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Procurement reforms that capped tech contracts at $100 million broke the stranglehold of big conglomerates and large multinationals in Canberra and opened the door to smaller Australian companies securing...
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Ernst & Young will be paid $3.3 million per month over the next year to continue its data and analytics work at the Australian Taxation Office, with the lucrative...
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Government Services minister Bill Shorten has ordered his agency to investigate its exposure to a lobbying scandal that allegedly sought to funnel kickbacks to former minister Stuart Robert for...
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A Canberra lobbying firm planned to secretly funnel money to former minister Stuart Robert for helping its clients secure lucrative government tech contracts, a company insider has alleged. Mr...
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A multi-million-dollar project to replace the legacy Centrelink system used to calculate and pay welfare recipients has been paused due to a lack of government funding, with the agency...
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Parliament has launched another inquiry into consultants, this time scrutinising the structure and culture of the sector currently dominated by a handful of large firms that receive billions in...
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Accenture will be paid a further $21 million for its work on the huge enterprise resource planning system consolidation taking place across the New South Wales government, as state...