Queensland Treasurer Andrew Fraser has defended the $450,000 National Broadband Network Company annual pay package for Premier Anna Bligh's outgoing chief of staff, saying he is a very talented man.
The Queensland Government has picked the vendors to nurse it through its massive roll-out of Microsoft Exchange 2007 to 80,000 public servants.
IBM today said it had finished its deployment of a toll and traffic management system for Queensland's road authority.
The Queensland Government Chief Procurement Office reached a preliminary agreement this week with the state's IT contracting industry on a new model to achieve the government's saving aims, according to the Australian Information Industry Association.
The Queensland Government's master vendor model to procure temporary IT workers will most likely lay to rest after having discussions with the IT recruitment industry, according to the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA).
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.
Acting Queensland Health CIO Ray Brown has been appointed to permanently fill the chief information officer role.
Queensland has been launched into a snap state election, and the local IT Industry is feeling a little left out.
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.
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.
Detective Inspector Brian Hay, who heads up the Queensland Police Corporate Crime Investigation Group, reveals that hundreds and possibly thousands of Australians have fallen victim to the infamous Nigerian 419 scam.
The Queensland government has used its buying power to increase mobile coverage within the state, after it "got tired of waiting for the federal government to do something".
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