Julian Bajkowski

The head of Telstra Corp. Ltd.'s technology division opened up with both barrels yesterday over reports the telco

Australia's biggest IT buyer, the Department of Defence will drastically rationalize the way it manages its information systems, with the position of CIO elevated to take charge of all "development and support of enterprise management applications".

Enterprises handling the personal information of customers are being given a second chance to influence the operation of the Australian federal Privacy Act (1998). Federal Attorney General Philip Ruddock has announced a review of private sector provisions of the law.

Splits have appeared in the Australian government's position of offshoring Australian public sector IT jobs. The Prime Minister's office has refused to support comments made by the Trade Minister Mark Vaile and Communications and IT Minister Helen Coonan backing the practice.

Splits have appeared in the Australian government's position of offshoring Australian public sector IT jobs. The Prime Minister's office has refused to support comments made by the Trade Minister Mark Vaile and Communications and IT Minister Helen Coonan backing the practice.

The Australian arm of Seattle-based aircraft and defense technologies behemoth The Boeing Co. has won a A$66 million (US$$46 million) deal to provide technology to Australia's foreign eavesdropping agency, the Defence Signals Directorate (DSD).

In the boldest manifestation of public sector insourcing in Australia to date, federal government agencies are developing their own open source-based applications and will make them available for re-use across the whole of government in the form of generic software application held in code banks.

If Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates thought he had worries about open source stealing market share from Microsoft in the Australian public sector, Malaysia has just proved to be a much bigger problem.