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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...

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HP 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...

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Health 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...

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Stay 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...

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Sunshine 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...

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Queensland 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...

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Queensland 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...

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IBM 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...

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Doctors 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...

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Springborg 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...

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Commissioner 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...

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Shaun 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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