Tag: Home Affairs

Digital arrival cards still not in use, while funding kept secret

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The government’s permissions capability, providing digital incoming passenger declarations featuring vaccination status, is still not in use despite the international border reopening, and with the project’s funding to be...

Govt not briefed on crypto travel rule as warnings rise

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews has not yet been briefed on the crypto currency data sharing ‘travel’ rule and the federal government has no intention of developing a technology...

Home Affairs says it can’t build its own cyber hub

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Home Affairs is paying international consultants Ernst & Young $2.5 million to help establish its cybersecurity hub because it lacks the “capacity and specialist knowledge” to do it in-house....

The information technology cost of closed borders

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The federal government outsourced more than $5 million of technology work to manage its international travel exemptions for one year, including large IT contracts where only a single provider...

Accenture wins govt permissions capability contract

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Irish consulting giant Accenture has reportedly been awarded the lucrative federal government contract to develop a “permissions capability” which will initially handle visa processing. It comes nearly eight months...

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...

DTA’s new whole-of-government mandate in PM&C

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Digital Transformation Agency has a whole-of-government approach to data and digital policies in its new home in PM&C, employment minister Stuart Robert says. Despite his new role in...