By Paul Hemsley and Julian Bajkowski Microsoft may not be shouting it from the rooftops, however its latest operating system release, Windows 8.1, looks like it will increasingly be heavily discounted for local governments in New South Wales under Volume Software Pricing arrangements more commonly used by state and federal governments. As the mega vendor […]
17 October, 2013
By Paul Hemsley and Julian Bajkowski The NSW government has announced that it will outsource management of its office accommodation requirements after Minister for Finance and Services Andrew Constance called for expressions of interest from private sector suppliers. The move to outsourcing will send management of what the government estimates is a portfolio of 830 […]
2 October, 2013
By Paul Hemsley New South Wales Premier Barry O’Farrell and his Local Government Minister Don Page have a new electoral headache to deal with in their efforts to sell the controversial idea of council mergers in the state. New polling research commissioned by the Independent Local Government Review Panel in New South Wales has revealed […]
27 September, 2013
By Paul Hemsley The New South Wales government has listed electronics company Ricoh IT Services as a registered supplier with the NSW Government ICT Services Scheme, which the company hopes will boost its involvement in state government projects. The accreditation of Ricoh IT Services by the NSW government to become an ‘Advanced Registered Partner’ will […]
24 September, 2013
By Paul Hemsley The New South Wales Department of Premier and Cabinet (DPC) has issued all councils across the state with the set of formalised words that are now required to be used when contracting-in the NSW Electoral Commission (NSWEC) to run their elections, referenda or polls. The circular from the chief executive of the […]
20 September, 2013
By Paul Hemsley and Julian Bajkowski The New South Wales state government led by Premier Barry O’Farrell has mounted an ambitious push to make councils more “small business friendly” through a new carrot-and-stick regime that will reward achievers with a certificate but also publicly list laggards that the state and shopkeepers believe need to lift […]
13 September, 2013
By Staff Writers Tailored packages for people dying at home, more palliative care volunteers and an after-hours telephone service are among $35 million in community-based palliative care initiatives to be rolled out across New South Wales, the state’s health minister, Jillian Skinner, has announced. Up to 1545 home support packages offering personal care, domestic assistance […]
13 September, 2013
By Paul Hemsley The New South Wales Department of Premier and Cabinet has warned councils that they must quickly get their act together in reporting complaints made about them by constituents and ratepayers to the state government. This firm reminder has come in the form of a circular from the chief executive of the Division […]
6 September, 2013
By Julian Bajkowski Australia’s official body for dentists has taken a bite out of Australia’s main political parties over what it claims is a “deafening silence” over local governments controversially removing fluoride from town water supplies against the interests of public health. The Australian Dental Association (ADA) is warning that taxpayers and the federally funded […]
5 September, 2013
By Julian Bajkowski The New South Wales government has added to a downpour of public sector cloud computing policy announcements in the past week, revealing the state’s departments and agencies will now be compelled to put the popular technology into the mix for assessment when making technology purchases. Announced by Minister for Finance and Services […]
3 September, 2013
By Julian Bajkowski The iconic New South Wales surfing mecca of Byron Bay has become the latest front in a growing push by community advocates and emergency services workers to cut after-midnight liquor trading hours to reduce incidents of alcohol fuelled violence that are giving the coastal town a bad name. A weekend community forum […]
27 August, 2013
By Julian Bajkowski Retail stationery juggernaut Officeworks has successfully prized its way into the Queensland government’s procurement panel for office and educational supplies as the company pushes hard to build up its business-to-business (B2B) customer base in the public sector. The win by the Wesfarmers subsidiary is a significant development for government buyers because it […]
12 August, 2013
By Paul Hemsley The New South Wales government has revealed plans to replace existing mercury vapour streetlights with light emitting diode (LED) technology across 41 council areas in Sydney, the Central Coast and the Hunter in a switch that state Minister for Energy Chris Hartcher claims will save councils millions of dollars in maintenance and […]
6 August, 2013
By Staff Writers The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) in New South Wales has found that former state Labor powerbroker Eddie Obeid and mining minister Ian MacDonald engaged in corrupt conduct in relation to the creation of the Mount Penny mining tenement in the Bylong Valley. At the conclusion of a marathon investigation that has […]
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