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Visa processing tender abandoned

The government has quietly abandoned its highly contentious billion-dollar plan to outsource the nations visa processing systems, despite already spending more than $80 million on the tender process. Acting...

Vic gov’t lobbies feds on skills

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Victoria Government is lobbying its federal counterparts for significant reforms to skilled migration programs to give local tech companies better access to global tech talent. Victorian Treasurer Tim...

New visa targets global talent

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The federal government’s new innovation visa pilot program has officially kicked off, allowing Australian companies to offer four-year visas to highly-skilled tech workers from around the world. The Global...

New skills visa is not enough

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Nearly a year after the shock scrapping of the 457 visa program, the federal government is set to a trial a new visa scheme for tech companies to attract talent...

Data61 out of drug-test business

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The CSIRO has confirmed that its data branch Data61 is no longer working on the government’s controversial welfare drug testing scheme, as the first location for the trial has...

myGov gets an ugly report card

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Commonwealth’s myGov platform has been “largely effective,” despite ballooning costs and an inability to bring new government services onto the platform, an audit report has found. The Australian...

Calling time on robo-debt scheme

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Federal Government’s highly controversial robo-debt recovery system is a “fundamentally broken program” that has had a “profoundly negative impact on the lives of thousands of Australians”, a Senate...

Robo-debt gets an expanded brief

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The government is ploughing ahead with plans to expand the controversial robo-debt program to save nearly $1 billion in a move that the Opposition said will unfairly target pensioners....

Data-driven drug tests a disaster

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The government’s new “data-driven profiling” method for drug testing welfare recipients risks running into the same issues as its robo-debt tool and poses a serious privacy risk, the Opposition...

Robo-debt is not a friendly robot

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Department of Human Services is an “agency in crisis” and its highly controversial robo-debt collection system has created a “climate of fear” in Australia, a Senate inquiry has...