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  • Qld ICT Minister attacks wrong rival

    Queensland ICT Minister Robert Schwarten suffered a misstep in his election campaign today, attacking the wrong opposition spokesperson on the Liberal National Party election policy on government ICT spending cuts.

  • Schwarten keeps Qld ICT portfolio

    Queensland politician Robert Schwarten will keep the information and communications technology portfolio in Anna Bligh's new cabinet, it was announced last week.

  • New chief for Qld government IT

    Queensland's Office of Government ICT has a new chief, with independent consultant Peter Grant chosen to take the reigns.

  • QLD govt pushes ICT exports

    Queensland Government is looking to push the state's technology exports, with the launch of an ICT export portal yesterday.

  • Qld government goes pineapples for green IT

    The Queensland government has announced plans to embark on a new green procurement strategy, after a procedural review led to the establishment of a green whole-of-government computing arrangement.

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  • Cop it sweet

    Patch Monday makes its timely return and is armed with another week of stories, interviews and rumours to digest.

  • Chapman's rough end of the pineapple

    If I was Alan Chapman, the acting executive director of the Queensland Government Chief Information Office, I'd be really irate right now.

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    Greg Farr's 21-gun salute

    What does Defence CIO Greg Farr have to do to get a 21-gun salute? What does Russell Crowe and lobbying have in common? And can NSW be the next Silicon Valley? All these questions are answered in this week's instalment of Patch Monday.

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    There's something to be said for the Japanese philosophy of Kaizen an idea of continually improving business via small changes something that unfortunately doesn't seem to glean many votes or impress punters.

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  • Qld Govt: The usual ICT suspects

    Despite a changing of the guard in several influential departments and offices in the past 2-years (Health, Transport, Emergency Services, Police, Premier's, Public Works, and QGCIO, to name a few), the true identity of ICT influence in Queensland government still rests with the agency CIOs.

  • Qld's ICT industry needs a great campaign

    Rather than attempt to focus on the industry issues we should turn our attention to reminding everyday voters why they need our industry. Let's make the message of the ICT industry's first great campaign simple: no ICT industry, no business.

  • Where else but Queensland?

    Australia's IT industry needs to follow the example laid down in Queensland this week and band together to lobby for more government support instead of individual firms fruitlessly pushing their own campaigns.

  • Is Brown Qld Health's white knight?

    Ray Brown stepped in two weeks ago as the latest chief information officer for Queensland Health, hoping to bring some stability to a division that has seen a number of faces move through the head technology spot in quick succession.

  • Qld: Time for an innovation agenda

    Queensland has been launched into a snap state election, and the local IT Industry is feeling a little left out.

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