Tag: Home Affairs

Home Affairs drops $20m on tech testing contractors

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Department of Home Affairs will spend at least $20 million on contractors to test its IT projects this financial year, including adding $4 million to one provider’s contract...

Govt’s digital passenger app gets scathing reviews

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Home Affairs has said it is committed to improving its digitised version of the incoming traveller declaration after receiving scathing reviews from users since it was launched last month....

Tech sector regulation is becoming a tangled web

Posted on   |  by Simon Bush
Technology is no longer the new frontier; it’s not an ungoverned or unregulated place. As COVID has demonstrated, digital technologies are now core to our economy and society, and...

Home Affairs-led ‘permissions capability’ to launch this week

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The first iteration of the federal government’s permissions capability will launch this week, serving to digitise the Covid-19 declarations of incoming passengers and coinciding with the reopening of Australia’s...

Wait continues for facial recognition database legislation

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Amendments to the federal government’s highly controversial facial recognition database legislation were referred to the powerful national security committee nearly two years ago but an inquiry has yet to be...

Govt ‘steamrolling’ ahead with facial recognition plan

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Despite the necessary legislation not having been passed, the federal government is “streamrolling” ahead with its plan to launch a national facial recognition database and is already on the...