Could Medicare make Australia Post become a Giro Bank?

Welfare payments modernisation…where to now?

11 July, 2016

NSW launches its own government digital identifier

MyServiceNSW isn’t waiting for myGov.

4 February, 2016

NSW resets its Digital and ICT strategy

ICT dumped for Innovation rebrand.

26 November, 2015

ANZ’s CTO blasts national federated digital identity plans

Singualr simplicity or multiple headaches.

28 October, 2015

Where is Tony Abbott’s Cyber Security Review?

Questions after business leaders summit.

9 July, 2015

Abbott calls in Britain’s former top cyber spook

Former GCHQ chief Iain-Lobban on cyber review panel.

20 April, 2015

Questions fly over billion dollar overhaul of Human Services

Opposition demands release of business case and costings.

16 April, 2015

Thanks a billion: Centrelink’s megasystem overhaul looks primed for Budget

McClure report recommendations set to trigger real-time tech upgrades for Human Services, Tax.

26 February, 2015

Has Medicare outsourcing stalled?

Conspicuous silence after EOI

17 February, 2015

Outsourcing push reveals Health and DHS split

Cross-agency confusion on welfare infrastructure

11 August, 2014

Online ads now a permanent fix for Bureau of Meteorology

Cash positive forecast for heavy weather traffic

5 August, 2014

Privacy watchdog finds Australians worried over social media protections

By Julian Bajkowski The federal government’s privacy and data watchdog has delivered the biggest stocktake of community attitudes to privacy issues in five years, revealing people are more worried about the conduct of online services and social media providers than identity theft and fraud. The report from the Office the Australian Information Commissioner has found […]

11 October, 2013

Finance launches investigation into ERP software costs

By Julian Bajkowski The Department of Finance has put some of the world’s biggest business software companies on notice that their lucrative contracts will soon be the subject to a sweeping review as the federal government seeks to extract better value from so-called enterprise resource management (ERP) systems. Just a week after the election of […]

17 September, 2013

Queensland releases government technology vision

By Julian Bajkowski The Queensland Government has set out its grand vision for recasting how the state’s public sector buys and consumes more than $1.6 billion a year in technology services, software and infrastructure, confirming it will dump confirmed the longstanding build-own-operate model in favour of buying technology as a service. In a set of […]

30 August, 2013