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Labor has walked away from technology centralisation orthodoxy, with Finance taking a step back from directly controlling or dictating agency tech choices.

AI’s primary public service purpose should be to do good, not attack targets. That means contestable alternatives, not another oligopoly.

Extractive data raids on blue chips crystallise a minister’s mind. Digital ID just got very real for key politicians. The use case? Survival.

Bill Shorten argues access to digital identity is becoming a class issue. The question now is how quickly Labor can deliver.

Apiarists are the latest to get digital export certificates that delete onerous paperwork and the tyranny of customs clerks.

Digital subscriptions now resemble Hotel California, Australia’s competition minister Andrew Leigh says.

A nationally interoperable ecosystem of digital identity credentials has taken a quiet but significant step forward.

The list of troubled tech projects financial services minister Stephen Jones has inherited is growing, with a review into ASIC’s registers.

A landmark survey of Australian tech SMEs who sell to government exposes big obstacles for local firms trying to win public sector business.

As the world emerges from a global pandemic, now more than ever, there is a shared understanding of the critical role that data plays in the effective delivery of healthcare. When used well, data has the power to reduce costs, provide more timely, innovative, and targeted services, and ultimately produce better patient outcomes. To respond […]

“Every penny spent on administration is one that can’t be spent on patient care.” At a time when technology-driven advances in medical science arrive almost daily, the back-office functions in too many healthcare institutions still struggle to improve productivity, extract insights, truly engage employees, and achieve operational excellence. This challenge is due to the cement-hardened […]

Even before COVID-19 reached Australian shores, the effectiveness of systems supporting the delivery and management of healthcare services was limited by its disconnectedness. Systems facilitating the delivery of patient services, procurement of medicines and medical equipment, and management of staff and finances were siloed, creating workflows difficult to navigate for both staff and patients. “The […]