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  • Nanda Lakhwani
  • 16 June 2021
The Federal Government has rolled out a new self-guided digital tool that generates tailored employment contracts for small business owners, compliant with Australian workplace laws. By answering a series of questions through a web-based portal, the aptly named Employment Contract...
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  • FST Media
  • 14 June 2021
Adobe has announced it has secured IRAP certification for its eSignature service, Adobe Sign, opening the doors to wider uptake of the solution within Australian Government organisations. The assessment assures that the digital signature service meets the Australian Signals Directorate’s...
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  • FST Media
  • 2 June 2021
The Reserve Bank goes to market for a new identity and access management solution; Tasmania picks Oracle for vaccine rollout platform; and Australia’s Human Rights Commissioner cites current procurement processes as key barrier to fair adoption of emerging tech in...
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  • Nanda Lakhwani
  • 2 June 2021
The Tasmanian Government is set to become the first Australian state to deploy Oracle’s cloud-based digital health platform, streamlining Covid-19 vaccine registration for its more than 500,000 residents. Oracle said its newly implemented Health Management System will simplify appointment scheduling...
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  • FST Media
  • 1 June 2021
NSW’s Department of Education brings in expertise from the banking sector to drive its transformation agenda, while the state’s Department of Customer Service (DCS) has announced it is on the hunt for a new Chief Information Officer. – The NSW Department...
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  • FST Media
  • 1 June 2021
Australian freight carriers will be able to track critical supply chains and major trucking routes crisscrossing the country through a new data visualisation tool, with the Federal Government unveiling the first incarnation of its National Freight Data Hub. Users of...
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  • FST Media
  • 1 June 2021
The NSW state auditor has flagged 14 high-risk issues within councils’ IT systems, 10 of which remain unresolved from the previous year’s audit. Among the most egregious IT security failures uncovered in the audit, which covers the 2019-20 reporting period,...
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  • Nanda Lakhwani
  • 19 May 2021
A parliamentary inquiry has urged the Federal Government to add further protections into a legislative framework set to fast-track its access to overseas-held communications data, including evidence for prosecutions for serious crime and investigation of suspected terrorist activity. The Parliamentary...
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  • FST Media
  • 19 May 2021
Australian Immunisation Register to get a post-Covid revamp; calls for Australia to appoint a Chief Technologist; Federal Government urged to fine-tune overseas data-sharing Bill; and a rundown of key tech investment initiatives in Budget 2021. – Services Australia has enlisted IBM...
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  • Nanda Lakhwani
  • 17 May 2021
Costly internet services and electronic devices are potentially expanding the digital divide for New Zealand’s Māori and Pacific Islander communities, with some fearing they may lose access to government support and entitlements, recent reports by the NZ Government reveal. According...
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  • FST Media
  • 17 May 2021
A sysadmin password on a local government system remained unchanged for nearly 20 years, WA’s Auditor General has revealed, with the OAG also finding a number of councils had failed to act on recommendations made in its previous general computer...
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  • FST Media
  • 5 May 2021
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) flags a major “modernisation” of IT outsourcing; Treasury seeks to lower bar for Consumer Data Right (CDR) accreditation; and the Federal Government reveals plan to create three big brother ‘Cyber Hubs’ to uplift smaller agencies...
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  • FST Media
  • 5 May 2021
Silicon Valley-based cloud services company, Snowflake, has announced it has secured IRAP (Australian Information Security Registered Assessors Program) certification, a critical step to hosting ‘protected level’ data from Australian Government agencies. Following a third-party assessment, Snowflake said its ‘Data Cloud’,...
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  • Nanda Lakhwani
  • 5 May 2021
Trust in digital government has grown over the Covid-19 crisis, with more than two-thirds of Australian and New Zealand residents willing to share personal data for more proactive and personalised services, findings from Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Salesforce have...
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  • Nanda Lakhwani
  • 5 May 2021
In a major push to “modernise” its IT outsourcing portfolio, the Australian Tax Office (ATO) has announced plans to approach the market for new centralised computing, end-user technology and enterprise service management (ESM) providers. The ATO is set to issue...
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