Tag: DTO

Cath Thompson on the long road to digital trustworthiness

Catherine Thompson had spent a career in corporate procurement roles, among other things, before she landed in 2015 at the Digital Transformation Office. These were heady days for digital service delivery in the federal government. The then-Communications minister Malcolm Turnbull had wrangled support for the creation of the DTO...

Lost children of the digital revolution

Posted on   |  by Marie Johnson
In 2008 – the year that the first round of “Service Delivery Reform” was getting underway – my daughter had her first baby. The bureaucracy would come to call...

Shetler readies for Senate inquiry

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Australian Government’s former digital transformation supremo Paul Shetler will give evidence on day one of the Senate’s inquiry into digital service delivery this week, calling for a radical...

Husic: Mandarins are in the way

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The battle inside the federal public service between forces warding off serious digital transformation and those who want to deliver 21st century systems must end, says Labor’s digital economy...

Estimates welcome for new DTA chief

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Newly-appointed DTA chief Gavin Slater concedes he has a lot to learn about his new role after an embarrassing first appearance at the Senate estimates where his political impartiality...

Thodey review of PM&C queried

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Shadow Minister for the Digital Economy Ed Husic has called for the public release of a little-known review of federal government digital transformation efforts that ultimately led to the radical restructure of...

DTA grilling: What we learned

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Malcolm Turnbull’s pet project, the Digital Transformation Agency, was put under intense scrutiny at the Senate Estimates last week, with revelations the organisation no longer sees itself as a...

Centrelink fail won’t go away

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Digital Transformation Agency had been missing in action throughout the Centrelink debt recovery debacle calling into question its purpose in government, according to shadow minister for the digital...

Doors open for digital opportunity

Posted on   |  by Margaret Lim
Australia’s digital transformation leadership will gather in Canberra on Thursday to explore changes in the Commonwealth’s digital agenda, including a deep-dive look at ICT procurement reform, delivering better government...

Taylor flags tech regime change

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Senior public servants with concerns about how Angus Taylor’s new tech procurement plans will impact their run-of-business ICT operations should know more in the two weeks with the release...