A fifth of the government procurements linked to an alleged lobbying scandal involving tech suppliers and former minister Stuart Robert had either conflicts of interest, poor value for money...
The federal government shunned its own website content management system in favour of Adobe when myGov was redeveloped due to its “limited functionality”, only to leave Adobe’s content personalisation...
Adobe was decided as the software provider for the new myGov platform before the federal government had even devised a business case or approached the market, raising questions about...
The Auditor-General’s damning assessment of procurement practices at the Digital Transformation Agency highlights an urgent need for a closer examination of how the federal government selects and acquires technology....
A key architect of myGov says he “despairs” at the lack of progress on the platform and that the outsourcing of the development of a new version to private...
The federal government will pay US multinational Adobe more than $30 million to provide “core technology components” to underpin the new version of myGov, with total contracts for the...
Big tech and business are warring with digital and civil rights groups over the need to introduce a right of direct action for data breaches as part of the...
In March this year, with COVID-19 starting to impact the Australian economy, the Federal Minister for Industry, Science, and Technology Karen Andrews convened a virtual roundtable of technology company...
The federal government has spent five years encouraging departments and agencies to standardise website software on an open source content management system in order to reduce complexity, save money...
It has been the most challenging period of our lives. But if the difficult health and economic response to the coronavirus pandemic has brought a silver lining, it is...