The Albanese government has scrapped the Coalition’s lofty goal of Australia becoming one of the top three digital governments in the world by 2025 in its first digital and data strategy.
It comes just months after Finance minister Katy Gallagher warned the federal government was unlikely to realise the vision without significantly more investment in digital services, based on the trajectory set by the Coalition.
The goal of Australia becoming a top three digital government, as ranked by the OECD Digital Government Index, was set in November 2018, when the former government released its first whole-of-government digital strategy.
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