Tag: permissions capability

Union lashes Home Affairs on ICT outsourcing, culture

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Department of Home Affairs spent more than $500 million on “failed ICT outsourcing projects” in recent years, according to the public sector union, which has accused the department...

Permissions denied: Home Affairs tech platform gets the hook

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Home Affairs minister Clare O’Neil’s decision to pull digital passenger cards has raised new questions about the underlying government technology platform and its chequered history as the development bill...

Digital passenger card shelved after scathing reviews

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Digital Passenger Declaration has been shelved, with new Home Affairs minister Clare O’Neil acknowledging it “needs a lot more work” even after more than $60 million has been...

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...

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...

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 to pay Accenture $60 million for permissions capability work

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government will pay Irish-domiciled consulting multinational Accenture nearly $60 million to develop a “permissions capability” platform which will initially serve to digitise incoming passenger declaration forms. In...

Outsourced tech contracts ‘defy common sense’

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Handing lucrative IT contracts to multinational tech delivery firms “defies common sense” and undermines the capacity of the public sector to build technical capability, leading tax experts have told...