By Julian Bajkowski The Australian Medical Association (AMA) has held crisis talks with the head of the federal Department of Health and Ageing, Professor Jane Halton, over the unprecedented walkout of clinical advisors from the nation’s decade long $1 billion effort to build a functional eHealth system. Held on Tuesday, the meeting followed calls by […]
23 August, 2013
By Julian Bajkowski Australia’s long and troubled efforts to create a functioning national system of electronic health and medical records system is once more close to collapse. The Australian Medical Association has expressed serious concerns over clinician input into the project following the shock resignation of highly respected clinical representative Dr Mukesh Haikerwal from the […]
16 August, 2013
By Julian Bajkowski The Queensland government’s unprecendented ban on giving IBM new business after the $1.2 billion Health Payroll software disaster will not be imposed on local governments and councils, the minister responsible for the sector had confirmed. Queensland Local Government Minister David Crisafulli has told Government News that councils will not be hit by […]
12 August, 2013
By Julian Bajkowski The Queensland government has moved swiftly to punish multinational technology and services vendor IBM over the $1.2 billion software disaster that crippled the state’s health department payroll for months by immediately banning the company from securing any more deals. The move to ban IBM from further public sector work in Queensland represents […]
7 August, 2013
By Julian Bajkowski Global cloud computing heavyweight Amazon Web Services (AWS) is mounting a concerted push into the federal government sector as agencies rapidly look for new ways to cut technology running costs while gaining the same sort of productivity and efficiency gains now being realised in the private sector. The company has revealed the […]
21 May, 2013
By Julian Bajkowski Federal public servants are bracing for a fresh round of job cuts after pre-Budget scene setting by the Gillard government confirmed around $580 million savings aim to be extracted from the bureaucratic machinery. The projected savings have triggered warnings from the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) but are understood […]
14 May, 2013
Special Minister of State, Gary Gray, has vehemently rejected claims by the head the Business Council of Australia, Jennifer Westacott, that inexperienced and meddlesome ministerial staffers are eroding the quality of policy development and public administration. In an angry rebuke to Ms Westacott’s speech and proposed public service improvements last week, Mr Gray has accused […]
25 September, 2012
By Julian Bajkowski and Paul Hemsley The Queensland government has thrown open the door to outsourcing public sector payroll systems across the state. The move is a watershed because it is almost certain to be followed by other internally-run government technology functions and services being exposed to direct competition from the private sector. Queensland’s Information […]
20 August, 2012
The City of Greater Geraldton will have access to IBM’s Smarter Cities experts who have moved in to help the town reach its technical and environmental goals. This move follows the grant the Western Australian council received in March to participate in the IBM Smarter Cities Challenge. Living and working in the town for three […]
15 August, 2012
Mainframe servers from technology provider, IBM have been selected by the Northern Territory Government to host its governmental business applications. The NT Government selected IBM’s zEnterprise 114 mainframe server for its scalability as well as its ability to be accessed by many users at one time. To be located at the NT Government’s data centre […]
20 June, 2012
An energy efficiency project targeting large reductions in Townsville City Council’s power use has received an Australian Government grant. The Commonwealth provided $813000 in funding for the council’s $1.62 million Energy Transformation Townsville project. Provided on a ‘dollar-for-dollar’ basis with the council, the funding is from the Commonwealth’s round of Community Energy Efficiency Program grants. […]
19 June, 2012
By Lilia Guan Minister for Health Services, Senator Kim Carr spoke at technology vendor IBM’s third annual Smart Government conference about the use of technology to provide services for every fabric of society. Senator Carr said the Department of Health Services (DHS) is the government’s service delivery arm and bridge between the commonwealth and every […]
1 June, 2012
By Paul Hemsley A training and management centre from the Australian Institute of Management (AIM) has been opened in the ACT with funding from the Australian Government. Located in the centre of Canberra’s business district, Childer’s Square, the Australian Government under the Commonwealth Government Industry and Indigenous Skill Centre Program contributed $470000 in funding. ACT […]
25 May, 2012
By Lilia Guan The City of Greater Geraldton in Western Australia has been selected to receive an IBM Smarter Cities Challenge grant for 2012 The grant provides the City of Greater Geraldton with access to IBM's top experts to analyse and recommend ways Geraldton can become an even better place in which to live […]
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