HP Australia braces to cut up to 400 local jobs
The Australian arm of Hewlett-Packard is bracing for deep cuts, with up to 400 local positions in flux as the vendor looks at ways to consolidate its Asia-Pacific operations out of Singapore.
Stories by Julian Bajkowski
Senator scuttles 'Orwellian' national ID card
Attempts to exhume the concept of a national identity card backed by a central database have been effectively shut down by the National Party's Senator Barnaby Joyce (Queensland).
Lenovo neutralises SAP heartburn
If manually re-keying a sales, ordering and distribution system is every IT manager's worst application-integration nightmare, spare a thought for the Australian arm of recently expanded PC juggernaut Lenovo and its increasingly public issues with applications supplier SAP.
Attempts to blame IT for immigration bungles disintegrate
Attempts by Prime Minister John Howard and Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone to blame information technology for the illegal incarceration and deportation of Australian citizens have fallen apart with the release of former Federal Police Commissioner Mick Palmer's report into systemic failures at the Department of Immigration, Multiculturalism and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA).
Tax cuts prove a trial
While Australians were cheering the July 1 introduction of personal tax cuts contained in the Federal Budget, it was a serious payroll headache for a PeopleSoft user.
Research centre folds, 70 jobs lost
Australia's ICT research and development capability has been dealt a body blow, with the Brisbane-based Distributed Systems Technology Centre (DSTC) forced into closure after 14 years.
Australian developer scores third Indian bank
As the Commonwealth Bank and its big four peers contemplate offshoring IT to India, a Sydney-based banking systems vendor almost universally snubbed by the local financial sector has added another Indian bank to its client list.
In the trenches with BPM'
If you've ever wondered which conceptual shower the great business process management (BPM) idea came down in, the chances are you are not alone. Julian Bajkowski and David Margulius report
Cargo system scores trifecta for legislative delays
In a political first for any IT project in Australia, the cutover date for the Australian Customs Services Integrated Cargo System (ICS) will be given its third and final legislative extension after almost a decade of, at times painful, development.
States win rights over workplace snooping
IT managers sweating over where the buck stops on contentious workplace surveillance laws can sleep a little easier: the federal government has finally declared a legal truce with the states.
Ruddock repudiates Australia Card, central database
After a week of ministerial bickering, the shutter has slammed down on speculation about a single identity document for Australians, with Attorney General Philip Ruddock publicly repudiating the concept of an Australia Card.
Quarrels an unwanted malady for e-health
Revelations this week that ministerial brawling is threatening the roll-out of electronic health records (EHRs) across Australia is a sad indicator of how Australia's research and development sector is being mistreated and starved out of existence.
Ballmer lobbies Abbott and Costello
More leaks have emerged from the tight cocoon of self-imposed silence surrounding Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's activities in Australia, with three Cabinet ministers including Treasurer Peter Costello now confirmed to have met Ballmer for discussions in Sydney yesterday.
Abbott crash tackles e-Health program
A blistering speech by federal Health Minister Tony Abbott has shocked the IT health community and caused a bitter parliamentary rift over whether Australia's electronic health records should be held on a single massive database.
Steward joins federal CIO ranks
A senior IT bureaucrat from Centrelink, Ann Steward, has been appointed to the coveted post of federal CIO and general manager of the Australian Information Management Office.