Welfare and Tax primed by Hockey for core systems overhauls
Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey has strongly hinted that the federal government’s two biggest transactional computing systems – at the Australian Taxation Office and Centrelink – are set to be replaced...
View ArticleHP Enterprise Services + CSC ‘spin-merger’ sucks in iSoft and UXC
Outsourcing needs a helping hand. Australian government agencies are facing a rapidly shrinking choice of domestic and international technology outsourcers after HP Enterprise Services announced a...
View ArticleHealth confronts ghosts of failed govt IT projects in Medicare payments rebuild
Can Health exorcise the ghosts of failed past government IT projects? There is a graveyard bigger than Rookwood Cemetery filled with the cadavers of failed government IT projects and haunted by...
View ArticleStay connected to health services at home
Faced with unprecedented demands on hospitals, the Queensland Government has announced a new $3 million healthcare support program to provide more patients with free medial home care services. Health...
View ArticleSunshine state to poach WA health professionals
By Angela Dorizas Queensland Health has revealed its plan to headhunt health professionals from Western Australia who are likely to be affected by budget cuts. Acting Premier and Minister for Health...
View ArticleQueensland Health backs new depression website
By Rob O'Brien A new website to support people with depression and alcohol problems has been launched in Brisbane. The website, called OnTrack and developed by a Queensland University of Technology...
View ArticleQueensland overhauls technology procurement
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...
View ArticleIBM banished from new QLD government work
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...
View ArticleDoctors slam resuscitation of ‘Workchoices-style’ hospital contracts
By Paul Hemsley The Australian Medical Association (AMA) has slammed the Queensland government’s decision to move all of its public hospital Senior Medical Officers to individual contracts from 1st...
View ArticleSpringborg dials-up a second opinion on hospital award dispute
By Paul Hemsley A controversial plan to try and move Queensland’s entire public hospital senior medical staff onto individual workplace contracts by 1st July 2014 is continuing to generate indigestion...
View ArticleCommissioner appointed at second WA council
In other appointments Julie Bishop’s controversial private sector move Graham Quirk joins Queensland Racing First Indigenous board member for Victorian procurement board Commissioner appointed after...
View ArticleShaun Drummond to head up Queensland Health
Shaun Drummond, Queensland Health’s Acting Director-General and former Chief Operating Officer, has been appointed as the new Director-General, following a trans-Tasman recruitment search. Drummond...
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