Federal government policies that have become “diluted” through competing agency priorities have further entrenched the position of multinational tech companies in Canberra, making it harder for local companies to...
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Australia’s digital and data ministers have agreed to a national assurance framework for artificial intelligence that promises a consistent approach to the use of the technology across federal, state...
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Deloitte staff want a royal commission to investigate their toxic workplace, a “pyramid” business model, and a land and expand approach to government clients, a Senate committee heard on...
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The Department of Finance on Friday revealed it had received only 20 formal assurances from 236 consulting firms saying that they will not misuse the rates of competitors that...
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Government Services minister Bill Shorten has credited an incubator-style development process for the swift arrival of digital statutory declarations on myGov, an approach he believes offers a way forward...
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Services Australia quietly stopped its use of automation for social security and welfare claims processing almost 12 months ago, resulting in a blowout in wait times for some Centrelink...
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The New South Wales government’s 30-year old core licensing technology is exposed to cyber-attacks that could impact 140 other organisations, but the state auditor could find no evidence that...
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Two of Canberra’s biggest federal government agencies are sitting out a six-month trial of Microsoft Copilot while another 7,400-plus public servants put the generative artificial intelligence assistant through its...
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The Opposition has called on the Prime Minister to sack assistant minister for manufacturing Senator Tim Ayres over the appointment of his former colleague to two government board positions...
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Technical staffing constraints that led the latest tranche of the federal government’s Medicare payments system upgrade to report a ‘red’ status all of last year are on track to...
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A handful of digital projects underway across the federal government have been revealed as being at risk of major issues by the Digital Transformation Agency’s first public disclosure of...
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The private equity firm behind PwC spin-off Scyne Advisory have conceded there are “inherent conflicts” of interest in consultancies working across the public and private sector, as it moved...
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A long-running upgrade of the legacy payments systems underpinning Medicare has spent the last year on life support, with the latest phase of the critical overhaul stamped a project...
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The Industry department has never checked the books of a supplier it awarded a $31 million commercialisation services contract to, despite an independent audit finding “bias” in the decision...