Total APS job cuts too difficult to predict for Public Service Commission

By Julian Bajkowski The Australian Public Service Commission (APSC) has released its annual stocktake of the federal bureaucracy with the grim warning that it is now “difficult to predict” how the cumulative impact of successive rounds of job cuts under both the Coalition and Labor will hit staff numbers. Tabled in Parliament on Monday afternoon, […]

Victoria hits hiring accelerator on Digital Government

By Julian Bajkowski The Victorian government is conspicuously muscling up on its technology leadership smarts after the state revealed it is on the hunt for no fewer than five top flight public sector executives to lead its recently released ICT strategy. The state has created the new roles within the Department of State Development, Business […]

Finance launches investigation into ERP software costs

By Julian Bajkowski The Department of Finance has put some of the world’s biggest business software companies on notice that their lucrative contracts will soon be the subject to a sweeping review as the federal government seeks to extract better value from so-called enterprise resource management (ERP) systems. Just a week after the election of […]

WA Education inks $15m ASG deal

By Paul Hemsley The Western Australian Department of Education has expanded the role of its IT services provider ASG Group (ASZ) beyond its regular duties of finance, human resources and payroll services to the Department through a new contract worth $14.8 million to help it “modernise” its existing investment in Oracle technology. The publicly listed […]

Education Minister cuts Ultranet adrift

By Julian Bajkowski Victoria’s Education Minister, Martin Dixon, has moved swiftly to distance the Baillieu government from the Ultranet education software debacle after the state’s Auditor released a series of damning findings into the $180 million Oracle based project. At least three times over budget and with little realistic prospect of being salvaged, Mr Dixon […]

Vic Auditor fails Ultranet $180m e-learning disaster

By Julian Bajkowski A student management and learning system that was supposed to provide cutting edge capability to Victorian schools has been marked an unequivocal fail by the state’s Auditor General in an official review which “detected a number of serious process and probity issues in relation to tendering and procurement” for the massive project. […]

BCA bureaucratic meddling claims slammed by Gray

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 […]

NSW $12bil purchasing under microscope

By Julian Bajkowski New South Wales Commerce Minister, Greg Pearce has singled out the telecommunications and legal services sectors as ripe for sweeping procurement reforms as the O’Farrell government tries to significantly decentralise government purchasing worth $12.7 billion a year. The nomination of the two sectors as big ticket targets for the government signals the […]

Councils still need to calculate impact of Carbon Tax

By Lilia Guan   While Federal Government legislation doesn’t require local government to pay the Carbon Tax, councils will still need to calculate the amount of greenhouse emissions they generate for environmental and budgetary purposes.   Technology vendor, Oracle’s JD Edwards APAC product management and strategy senior manager, Scott Ash told Government News there were […]

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