Australia Post profits plunge into digital abyss

River of red ink for penny blacks.

4 September, 2014

Human Services and Australia Post tie knot on Digital Mail

Turnbull hits fast forward on mail volume reductions

18 August, 2014

Death of a Postman: Fahour cheques out Medicare

Mail volumes predicted to “literally fall off a cliff”

15 August, 2014

Outsourcing push reveals Health and DHS split

Cross-agency confusion on welfare infrastructure

11 August, 2014

NSW prisons declared cashless

Captive audience loses hard currency

30 July, 2014

Australia Post’s senior executives under fire over leaked mass redundancy details

Industrial tensions escalate over softening up tactics.

10 June, 2014

Coalition promises “virtually all” government services to be online by 2017

By Julian Bajkowski The Coalition has officially launched its eGovernment  and Digital Economy policy for the election in a wide-ranging document that reaffirms a commitment centralised procurement of government computing combined with the development of a permanent and centralised digital identity credential for online transactions between the public and agencies. Released by Shadow Communications Minister […]

2 September, 2013

Sydney extends tap-and-go ticket trials to trains

By Julian Bajkowski New South Wales transport authorities have announced the extension of customer trials for the state’s rebirthed public transit smartcard, Opal, to trains with readers for the devices now being switched-on at rail stations on Sydney’s City Circle line as well as Bondi Junction. The start of trials for CBD rail passengers is […]

3 June, 2013

BPAY aims to put Australia Post back in its box

By Julian Bajkowski Payments juggernaut BPAY has moved swiftly to defend its market share in the core local and state government sectors ahead of a heavily-hyped attempt by mail monopoly Australia Post to renter the electronic payments and bill presentation markets to arrest a terminal slide in revenue from paper mail. As the national postman […]

9 April, 2013

Digital plug for Australia Post’s $400 million revenue hole

By Julian Bajkowski Australia Post will need to increasingly expand its business into markets normally serviced by the private sector to remain financially sustainable and continue to provide traditional postal services, its chief executive, Ahmed Fahour, has said. In an impassioned speech to the Australia Israel Chamber of Commerce in Sydney on Thursday, the former […]

7 March, 2013