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The Australian Federal Government Now Spends AUD 10Bn a Year on IT

10 points by sien 9y ago

kayman 9y ago
On a positive note, the online services provided by a government agency are pretty good. When I received a bill from the tax office I was able to go online and create a payment plan without human intervention. There is also a portal that links multiple government services (Australian Tax Office, Medicare...) to enable access to multiple services. A few weeks later, I also got a call from the tax office surveying about my experience. Overall, my experience was great. (except for forking out money part :)
- harry8 9y ago
  Do you work for an it consulting firm?
  - kayman 9y ago
    No. I do work in IT though. But not in the government sector.
- sien 9y ago
  Australia also has a fair bit of open data as well. Data.gov.au has about 30K data sets. http://data.gov.au/ http://data.gov.au/
  - Untit1ed 9y ago
    Check out https://search.data.gov.au https://search.data.gov.au for what we're doing next too :)
- vithlani 9y ago
  The online services are nice but the way they implement SSO (or at least the experience) seems to indicate a lot of security holes or mis-practices. Also, their internal data security and access mechanisms are broken, un-monitored and un-enforced. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-13/ato-deputy-commissioner-michael-cranston-resigns/8614572 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-13/ato-deputy-commissione... And let us not forget the Census fiasco. At least they managed to sock/fine IBM $30 million for it. Hopefully this serves as a signal to other consultants and they up their game.
harry8 9y ago
$500 annually for each person in the country. Just federal. Not state, not local. In Canberra look at the names lit up on the tops of the buildings. The usual vampires. Imagine what you could do with 10 billion a year. Well they're improving oracle, accenture, computer associates, ibm global services profit. Pay 100,000 people at $100k each, every year. IT for Canberra. It's enough to make you sick. Ibm, consultants to the Nazi party. They're better than that now. But you've just got to hate them. No really, bilking if like this is evil.
andrewf 9y ago
As soon as the Western Australian state transit agency started submitting data to Google Maps, they released it to the public. http://www.transperth.wa.gov.au/About/Spatial-Data-Access http://www.transperth.wa.gov.au/About/Spatial-Data-Access This has been going on for about 10 years. There are good people in this country doing good things.

10 points by sien 9y ago

On a positive note, the online services provided by a government agency are pretty good. When I received a bill from the tax office I was able to go online and create a payment plan without human intervention. There is also a portal that links multiple government services (Australian Tax Office, Medicare...) to enable access to multiple services. A few weeks later, I also got a call from the tax office surveying about my experience. Overall, my experience was great. (except for forking out money part :)

harry8 9y ago
Do you work for an it consulting firm?
- kayman 9y ago
  No. I do work in IT though. But not in the government sector.
sien 9y ago
Australia also has a fair bit of open data as well. Data.gov.au has about 30K data sets. http://data.gov.au/ http://data.gov.au/
- Untit1ed 9y ago
  Check out https://search.data.gov.au https://search.data.gov.au for what we're doing next too :)
vithlani 9y ago
The online services are nice but the way they implement SSO (or at least the experience) seems to indicate a lot of security holes or mis-practices. Also, their internal data security and access mechanisms are broken, un-monitored and un-enforced. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-13/ato-deputy-commissioner-michael-cranston-resigns/8614572 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-13/ato-deputy-commissione... And let us not forget the Census fiasco. At least they managed to sock/fine IBM $30 million for it. Hopefully this serves as a signal to other consultants and they up their game.

harry8 9y ago

$500 annually for each person in the country. Just federal. Not state, not local. In Canberra look at the names lit up on the tops of the buildings. The usual vampires. Imagine what you could do with 10 billion a year. Well they're improving oracle, accenture, computer associates, ibm global services profit. Pay 100,000 people at $100k each, every year. IT for Canberra. It's enough to make you sick. Ibm, consultants to the Nazi party. They're better than that now. But you've just got to hate them. No really, bilking if like this is evil.

andrewf 9y ago

As soon as the Western Australian state transit agency started submitting data to Google Maps, they released it to the public. http://www.transperth.wa.gov.au/About/Spatial-Data-Access http://www.transperth.wa.gov.au/About/Spatial-Data-Access This has been going on for about 10 years. There are good people in this country doing good things.