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  • Customs nicks new CIO from ANZ

    The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service has poached Australia and New Zealand Banking Group's head of technology risk, Joe Attanasio, to be its new permanent chief information officer.

  • Centrelink testing Windows 7

    Welfare agency Centrelink has praised early test versions of Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 operating system, saying they show a jump in quality over the much-maligned Windows Vista.

  • Few following DIAC in Gershon hiring drive

    Most large federal government agencies this week said they had no plans to follow the Department of Immigration and Citizenship's lead in hiring a swathe of new permanent IT staff to replace contractors to meet Sir Peter Gershon's recommendations.

  • Logica Australia in job cuts

    The Australian office of IT services firm Logica has recently suffered a number of redundancies.

  • Govt CIOs silent on Gershon fallout

    A number of top-ranking federal government chief information officers have broadly declined to comment on any fallout for their departments from the news that the Federal Government will adopt Sir Peter Gershon's recommendations "in full".

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  • Photos: Customs' unmanned border spy plane

    Customs has been trialling a spy plane to patrol Australia's borders, flying surveillance low and slow to get into the dirty details of shipping.

  • Can the government solve its IT woes?

    Whatever happens in the election, government departments at both state and federal levels are facing major changes to how they build and manage their IT infrastructure. Is the answer shared services, an increased focus on SOA, enhanced Web delivery -- or just telling everyone in your department to get a clue?

  • Protecting our borders: IT stands guard

    Can a national ID card protect Australians against terrorist attacks? And can citizens' details be protected by Public Key Infrastructure? We look at the types of hardware and software employed to combat terrorism, and how ports and other critical infrastructure are protected.

  • Battles and triumphs of Australian start-ups

    Five Aussie businesses take us behind the scenes during the early set-up phase of their tech companies.

  • Government negligent on e-security: Lundy

    The shadow minister for information technology, Kate Lundy has accused the federal government of neglecting electronic security issues within the administration.

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