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News (18)

• Conroy's dept mum on Scott's departure

  Stephen Conroy's Department of Communications, Broadband and the Digital Economy has declined to comment on multiple reports its secretary Patricia Scott will move to another government role.

• Defence signs up for IBM servers

  The Department of Defence has entered into a standing offer with IBM for the purchase of x86 servers and services.

• Defence raids ATO for new CIO

  The Department of Defence has announced its new CIO, Greg Farr, hired from the ranks of the Australian Taxation Office.

• ATO shuffles CTO position

  After four years maintaining its chief technology officer role as a contractor, the Australian Taxation Office has decided to make the position permanent.

• Gershon: Contractor cull hits DFAT, Defence

  The Departments of Defence, Foreign Affairs and Trade, and others this week revealed they had made early moves to reduce their dependence on ICT contractors in line with the Gershon review.

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  Even the feds shop at Harvey Norman

  One wouldn't expect the price and privacy-conscious public sector to shop at Harvey Norman. But occasionally they do.

Features and Case Studies (8)

• Gershon pumpkin will vanish at midnight

  The long-term net impact of Gershon's idealistic review will realistically be negligible at best and at worst will prove to be a distraction for years to come.

• Gershon: Easier said than done

  Gershon's recommendations are consistent with those of other jurisdictions that have undertaken similar reviews, and are aimed at giving the ICT centralisation/decentralisation pendulum a shove back towards the centre. This is, however, easier said than done.

• Farr the reformer talks Defence

  A year from taking on perhaps the toughest IT job in the country, Defence chief information officer Greg Farr is staring down the barrel of a massive ICT reform agenda for 2009 that will reveal whether Defence got the "expert CIO" they needed.

• AFP's high-tech unit let Rome burn

  The "Anonymous" hacker group gave Australia's police forces a month's warning that it was going to attack the Federal Government. Why didn't the Australian Federal Police's electronic crimes unit do anything about it?

• An eye for an aye

  Australia is keeping pace with other governments in biometric usage but are we operating in a policy vacuum with technology that is far from perfect?

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