Tag: ICT

Outsourced visa tech upgrade ‘was a disaster’

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The decades old ICT systems underpinning Australia’s migration system need “urgent modernisation” after years of “systemic underinvestment” and failed “big bang” upgrades, according to an independent review of the...

ICT sector is ‘falling behind’: AIIA pre-budget submission

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
In its pre-budget submission, the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) has outlined 24 policy recommendations for the federal government to secure its target of making Australia a leading digital...

Contractors have ‘hollowed out’ APS tech skills

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
A year-long review of the Australian Public Service has slammed the growing externalisation of ICT projects and skills, warning contractors are now being relied on for “core, ongoing work”...

‘Urgent’ investment in APS tech staff needed

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The federal government must make an “urgent investment” in Australian public service staff to avoid any more government technology “failures” like robodebt, COVIDSafe and the 2016 census outage, a...

New milestone for digital Victoria

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The most significant shift in the Victorian government’s IT infrastructure in more than a decade will be completed by the end of the year. State-owned ICT service enterprise Cenitex...

Budget addresses skills shortages

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The federal government says its $525.3 million vocational education and training skills package investment delivered as part of the 2019-20 Budget will equip Australians with “better skills”. “We need...