Cyber security reaching a ‘tipping point’

Australian organisations are facing increasingly frequent and “more destructive” data breaches and need to adopt integrated risk management, experts warn.

20 August, 2018

IBM ‘out of the sin bin’: experts criticise $1b contract

Experts say the Commonwealth’s landmark $1 billion whole-of-government contract with IBM is contrary to its $100 million procurement cap and bad news for small and medium-sized enterprises.

10 July, 2018

Government should lead AI certification: Finkel 

Australia’s Chief Scientist has urged the Federal Government to use its purchasing power to reward ethical conduct by providers of artificial intelligence. 

21 May, 2018

Best of 2016: Census staff spill the beans and it’s not pretty

From paralysis to analysis.

20 December, 2016

Botched Census shakes public’s faith in digital government, says Turnbull’s ICT supremo

ABS culture slammed.

27 November, 2016

Census botch: Heads will roll … but whose?

Minister, ABS or IBM?

27 October, 2016

Contracts key to #Censusfail

Outcomes, not just process.

22 August, 2016

Turnbull amputates welfare payments outsourcing

Election scuttles another overhaul.

20 June, 2016

More outsourcer mergers after HP Enterprise Services + CSC says Gartner

Amazon, Googler, VMware muscle-in.

31 May, 2016

Can $484mil + IBM fix myGov problems?

Human Services quadruples Big Blue spend.

14 March, 2016

NSW forced mergers risk failure warn Queenslanders

They should know.

18 February, 2016

Medicare outsourcing skunkworks explodes into confusion

Accusations fly as stealth project outed in Estimates.

11 February, 2016

Census shake-up saves more than $100 million

Australia Post to deliver online log-in codes.

27 August, 2015

Melbourne council creates the Internet of Rubbish

Talking trash cans tell garbos when to get going.

13 August, 2015