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  • Treasury gets privacy help over businesses' reporting

    The Federal Treasury has issued a tender seeking privacy consultancy services for the government's Special Business Reporting initiative, a scheme to simplify regulated reporting processes for Australian businesses.

  • Tanner promises to lead Razor Gang in IT carve-up

    Federal Minister for Finance and Deregulation, Lindsay Tanner, has pledged to eradicate the costs of the previous government's "haphazard and fragmented" IT spending, but one commentator has argued that the government needs to spend more to make more of its technology.

  • SA nursed back to e-health with AU$17m Web plan

    Nurses and midwives working in South Australia's public hospital system will soon have automated access to patient records through a new AU$17 million Web based information system.

  • AFP, Microsoft roll out predator tracking system

    The Australian Federal Police (AFP) announced today that it will be rolling out a new investigative logistics system developed by Microsoft for its online child protection unit, only a day after Queensland police swooped on Australian members of a global paedophile network.

  • Foxtel hit with 'technical difficulties' after billing change

    Pay TV network Foxtel has left subscribers hanging on the telephone after it was hit by technical difficulties resulting from a migration to a new customer records keeping and access system.

  • Domain bureaucrats: Bungling the .gov.au space

    Australia's second level domain name system for government may have an air of legitimacy, but bureaucratic bungling is confusing Web administration between levels of government, according to one German researcher.

  • NSW throws itself on the mercy of the e-court

    After a prolonged but successful trial, the NSW Attorney-General has officially launched JusticeLink, an online judicial network allowing lawyers and judges to engage in some court hearings and proceedings over the Internet.

  • Defence opens suggestions box for big IT project

    The Department of Defence is seeking proposals from vendors to provide extensive systems upgrades, services and support for its military integrated logistics information system, an IT project it has described as one of the largest currently underway in Australia.

  • Qld government gets Big Blue for big deal

    IBM announced yesterday that it had signed a four-year contract with the Queensland government as part of its Shared Services Initiative in a significant step towards consolidating the management of its business processes.

  • CSIRO wants to bring order to its law

    The CSIRO, Australia's largest scientific research association, has issued an Expression of Interest (EOI) notice this week seeking vendors to provide a new legal matter management software system for its legal department, but representatives are remaining tight-lipped on the contract.

  • IT Grinch ruins Chrisco Christmas

    A systems glitch has delayed the delivery of Chrisco Christmas hampers to customers this Christmas, but Chrisco remains tightlipped as to the exact nature of the IT problem.

  • Telstra finds 150 lost IT systems

    Telstra has rediscovered up to 150 lost systems as it continues to revamp its IT and reduce the number of platforms it uses.

  • Jetstar Web site casualty of AU$1 fare war

    update: JetStar's online booking system has melted down for the second time this year after it today released 10,000 one-way seats at AU$1 each.

  • Java junk, Germans jibe

    The chief technology officer of Software AG has laughed off suggestions that Java is a business language.

  • Microsoft's file system patent upheld

    Two patents covering one of Microsoft's main Windows file-storage systems are valid after all, federal patent examiners have decided.

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