Category: Federal

By Julian Bajkowski The Rudd government’s new Minister Assisting for the Digital Economy, Senator Kate Lundy has publicly backed the creation of a new Cloud Consumer Protocol by the Australian…

The $1.8 million Serving Older Australians NBN enabled telehealth project has been launched in WA to support the delivery of home care services. Federal Minister for Regional Communications Sharon Bird…

By Julian Bajkowski The chief executive of the National Broadband Network Co., Mike Quigley has pulled the plug on his role at the top job of the $37.4 billion government…

By Paul Hemsley The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has awarded international carrier and hosting giant Verizon a $15 million deal supply a “dual internet gateway service” that will act has…

By Julian Bajkowski The chairman of the Coaltion’s deregulation taskforce, Senator Arthur Sinodinos, has outlined a raft of changes to how businesses sell into the federal government as part of…

By Julian Bajkowski and Paul Hemsley Australian public sector fleet buyers are facing fresh uncertainty over the future of General Motors Holden’s domestic manufacturing operations Australia after the carmaker reportedly…

By Julian Bajkowski Federal Attorney-General, Mark Dreyfus QC has drawn a firm line in the sand over how government buyers can adopt cloud computing solutions by stipulating a comprehensive set…

By Staff Writers Telstra has been awarded a $32 million deal to roll out secure gateway internet services across 11 government agencies as Canberra seeks to further consolidate and modernise…

By Julian Bajkowski If you ever wanted a sign that the digitised economy is fast consuming most things that stand in its path, spare a thought for set-builders of Australian…

By Paul Hemsley The Australasian Railway Association (ARA) has urged the federal government to tap the market and determine the level of interest from prospective bidders to help fund, design,…