So why scrap Census if costs were dropping?

The price of starving the Australian Bureau of Statistics of tech funds finally bites back

19 February, 2015

Vendors float up to Turnbull’s G-Cloud

Di Data and Telstra spur-on highly secure local hosting.

24 November, 2014

Australian politicians unanimously vote down online voting

Hackers and threats to secrecy of ballots just too much.

20 November, 2014

Human Services and Telstra deny plans to outsource call centres

Voice recognition and internet automation the real jobs threat.

17 September, 2014

Unconfirmed text of Human Services announcement of on-site Telstra call centre staff

Comments welcome.

17 September, 2014

Fed’s single web system edges closer

Acquia clicked for open-standards govCMS build on Drupal using public cloud.

15 September, 2014

Technology offshoring threat across dozens of APS agencies

Poor pay and skills shortage collide with 457 visa crackdown.

11 September, 2014

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

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

Turnbull declares transfer pricing laws an online revenue dud

By Julian Bajkowski In a strong sign that bipartisan support is mounting for a crackdown on transfer pricing tax schemes, Opposition Communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull has come out swinging against multinational technology companies that generate billions of dollars of revenue in Australia but pay proportionally miniscule amounts of tax here through transfer pricing arrangements. The […]

21 February, 2013

Conroy prescribes NBN for retail therapy

By Paul Hemsley and Julian Bajkowski Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, has continued his hard-sell of the National Broadband Network (NBN), dropping into a designer pop-up-shop in the trendy inner Melbourne suburb of Brunswick to tub thump the business as an example of how the fibre rollout can accelerate small businesses productivity and profitability. As big […]

13 December, 2012

Brisbane Council audit targets digital businesses

By Julian Bajkowski Brisbane City Council has run the ruler over the digital prowess of 500 of the city’s businesses in an innovative bid to lift the online proficiency of local enterprises when competing in the global market. The landmark assessment has come in the form of an official “Digital Audit” commissioned by the economic […]

12 November, 2012

Conroy seizes Cyber whitepaper

By Julian Bajkowski Responsibility for the federal Government’s key technology security policy document, the Cyber Whitepaper, has been shunted out of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet to Senator Stephen Conroy’s Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy after Prime Minister Julia Gillard moved to substantially widen the scope of the late-running treatise. […]

29 October, 2012