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The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) has urged public sector agencies to be more rigorous in their monitoring and performance measurement efforts for outsourced service delivery

The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) is inviting tenders to provide a software-based content management system to support and manage investigations into breaches of federal law and fraud within the various departments.

Problems with agency IT security are again under the spotlight, with reports from both Australia and the US highlighting widespread problems with compliance.

The Queensland government signalled its intentions to put an end to a deepening skills shortage with its hosting last week of the National ICT Skills Summit in Brisbane.

A report into the e-government performance of nine industrial countries has highly commended the Australian federal government's work on information and services integration.

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After years of early scepticism, ITIL - the Information Technology Infrastructure Library first assembled for the UK government in the late 1980s - is finally going mainstream

Globally, human resources (HR) outsourcing is picking up steam with the likes of Pepsi, Whirlpool and other big names choosing to use service providers to avoid stressing already stretched IT staff.

Senior public servants rarely shed tears in public, yet several had trouble concealing their emotions when Department of Immigration, Multiculturism and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA) outgoing chief information officer Cheryl Hannah took the stage at a government IT conference in Canberra last week.

The federal government is to dramatically shake up its internal IT strategy by the end of the year and will implement an ambitious scheme of programs including identity management, tougher contracts for vendors and an IT skills program.

In what is likely to be his last Budget between the Prime Minister's office or the back bench, Treasurer Peter Costello has bet the farm on a series of across-the-board tax cuts, backed by an ambitious series of welfare reforms where big picture IT simply does not figure - at least not for this year. IT Minister Helen Coonan's portfolio is marginally poorer, while security agencies including the Department of Immigration and Attorney have walked away with significant funding boosts for biometrics, identity management and data-drilling.