It might be hoped that the candidate selection process to fill a plush role as NSW Senior Trade Commissioner in New York is as grubby as things get in...
Public Sector
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Accenture has landed nearly $8 million in new contracts to continue work on Australia’s vaccine data system, with the Ireland-based multinational now receiving well over $30 million in total ...
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Home Affairs minister Clare O’Neil’s decision to pull digital passenger cards has raised new questions about the underlying government technology platform and its chequered history as the development bill...
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McKinsey has not been awarded an Australian government contract since February, and the global management consultants landing less than a quarter of the value of contracts from the Commonwealth...
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Some of the Public Service’s biggest users of outside contractors are not ensuring the outsourced workers are properly qualified, inducted or discharged, the national audit office has found, putting...
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This week, South Australian drug trafficker Domenic Perre was found guilty of the 1994 National Crime Authority bombing in Adelaide. Following a seven-month trial, Justice Kevin Nicholson found Perre...
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Missing data sharing policies, a government digital strategy not publicly updated since 2017, and a damaging reliance on consultants have been highlighted in a damning review of accountability within...
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The Department of Defence will pay Amazon Web Services and Microsoft nearly $12.5million over the next 15 months for ‘professional services’ to support Defence projects using the US tech...
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A newly-formed Victorian company was awarded a $30 million contract to provide commercialisation services to the federal government despite its bid being $13 million more expensive than the other...
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The Queensland state government is considering a mandatory data breach notification scheme among several privacy and information sharing reforms in the works. The scheme would force agencies to report...
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The department secretary in charge of the robodebt welfare debacle at its height Kathryn Campbell has been demoted from the ranks of top mandarins as part of Prime Minister...
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Serious issues in the Home Affairs department’s governance and enforcement of critical infrastructure protection have been exposed by the National Audit Office, which identified deficiencies in compliance activities, risk...
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Government research and development expenditure fell sharply as a proportion of GDP over the near-decade of Coalition power, leaving Australia behind comparable nations which are increasing their spend, according...
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The University of Melbourne will partner with the Victorian government to launch a $15 million fund targeting pre-seed startups, and has also announced a $100 million fund for later...