Tag: COVID-19

Another $2m McKinsey vaccine contract hidden

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Multinational consulting giant McKinsey was paid nearly $2 million over three months late last year by the federal health department to assist with the Covid-19 vaccine rollout. But the...

COVIDSafe hasn’t found any contacts this year

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government’s COVIDSafe contact tracing app has not found any new contacts this year and has still identified just 17 people in total, with the agency behind it...

Visa platform delayed to include COVID data

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government is still yet to decide which of the three shortlisted US tech firms will be tasked with building a new digital visa processing platform, with the...

Govt keeps McKinsey’s $2m mRNA report secret

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
A report on the development of onshore mRNA vaccine manufacturing capabilities that the federal government paid McKinsey $2 million to write and is driving its push for a local...

Facebook removed 110,000 Covid posts by Aussies

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Facebook removed 110,000 pieces of COVID-19 misinformation posted by Australian pages or accounts in the first year of the pandemic, with 14 billion posts removed around the world from...

IBM gets $19m for govt COVID vaccine platform

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The government has awarded IBM a two-year, $19 million contract to upgrade the backend of Australia’s immunisation records system to cope with COVID vaccination data. Services Australia manages the...

Govt to fund local mRNA vaccine manufacturing

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government has said it will develop an onshore mRNA vaccine manufacturing capability in Australia, but the actual amount of funding allocated to the significant task has been...

CSIRO to invest $100m in emerging tech research

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Australia’s national science agency will invest $100 million over four years in emerging technologies to assist with the economic recovery, including a significant focus on digital transformation in the...

Victoria commits $50m to mRNA vaccine facility

Posted on   |  by Peter Roberts
The Victorian government has committed $50 million to support the manufacture of mRNA vaccines in the state because of global vaccine supply insecurity. Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are the...