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    NSW Premier Bob Carr has said public servants will be suspended without pay if caught accessing online porn at work, following revelations that four officers from the Department of Community Services have been on full pay for 18 months whilst such conduct was investigated.

  • Aust Defence idle on network security gaps

    The Department of Defence is struggling to find and close security gaps in its network that allowed 25 of its civilian staff to trade pornographic material via email undetected.

  • NSW under fire over AU$300 million network tender

    Signs that NSW public servants are losing faith in the state government's ability to manage large-scale technology projects continued this week, this time over its AU$300 million whole-of-government broadband tender.

  • HealthSmart boss resigns

    The public servant in charge of Victoria's mammoth HealthSmart electronic health initiative has resigned for what the state's health department today said were personal reasons.

  • Aussie politicians edit Wikipedia entries

    The embarrassing details of Federal MPs listed on a popular online encyclopedia are being systematically removed by public servants.

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    Technology is a catalyst for business change, but that change doesn't always sit well with departments that have their own sovereignty to look after. David Braue asks whether IT can be centralised and distributed at the same time.

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    Con Zymaris, CEO of Australian IT services company CyberSource, attempts to set the record straight over recent industry comments that his company is muddying the waters when it comes to determining the true cost of corporate open source deployment.

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