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Queensland Public Service gets dramatic makeover

by Staff Writers, Mon 6 April 2009

Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has announced plans to consolidate the Government’s 23 stand-alone departments into 13, in what will be the “most sweeping and significant reform in almost two decades” for the Queensland Public Service.

The 13 new departments will be lead by the Government’s 18 Ministers, grouped into six divisions...

Queensland Government savings measures ahead of budget

by Staff Writers, Tue 9 June 2009

Recent budget announcements by Federal and Victorian Governments have had significant implications for government ICT sales projections...

NSW Mega Departments announced

by Staff Writers, Mon 15 June 2009

On 11 June, the Premier Nathan Rees announced a significant structural reform to the NSW public sector...

NSW and Queensland follow Victoria and South Australia into Super-Department arrangements

by Staff Writers, Mon 13 July 2009

As of 1 July 2009, both New South Wales and Queensland streamlined their bureaucracies into 13 Super Departments and in so doing have followed Victoria’s and South Australia’s lead.

NSW Premier Nathan Rees announced on 11 June that the 13 Super Departments would be formed from the 160 state agencies. The new structure saw the appointment of 13 Directors General to head the new super agencies...

Reflections on Queensland, the Moonlight State

by Staff Writers, Mon 3 August 2009

On the 20th anniversary of Tony Fitzgerald’s landmark corruption inquiry in Queensland, the spectre of official corruption and improper behaviour is again taking centre stage.  The dust is now settling from a turbulent week in Queensland, with clear lessons for any vendor planning to sell to government.

Last week, Brisbane hosted the second ond Australian Public Sector Anti-Corruption Conference...

Queensland’s acceptance of the Auditor General’s ICT recommendations on failed Health Payroll System will have wide impacts

by Kristen Hammond, Wed 30 June 2010

The announcement by Queensland Premier Anna Bligh that her government will implement all seven of the recommendations of a Queensland Audit Office report has the potential to ripple out into the wider Australian government ICT market as other jurisdictions take stock of the criticism being levelled by the Queensland Government at ‘whole of government’ solutions...

Free Queensland’s Shared Services woes continue

by Aleks Vickovich, Wed 14 July 2010

The Queensland Government has announced the terms of reference for an overhaul and independent review of CorpTech, following a second highly critical QLD Auditor General report on the government ICT shared services agency.  The move comes amid the fallout from the problematic health payroll system upgrade, which led to thousands of state employees going unpaid, and is expected to have wide implications for the government ICT market...

Bligh’s ICT address: ‘bland and content-free’ or ‘vision aplenty’?

by Kristen Hammond, Mon 2 August 2010

Queensland Premier Anna Bligh provided her perspective on current and upcoming ICT trends in her state, flagging...

Queensland Public Servants Set to Leave Town

by Staff Writers, Mon 28 July 2008

In a move with implications for ICT infrastructure, the Queensland Government has announced a plan to move all public servants out of the Brisbane CBD, with the first relocation to be completed by 2011.

Premier Anna Bligh announced a target to decentralize metropolitan Government agencies, saving almost $200 million over 20 years. By 2017, 20 percent of the State Government’s CBD office space (and 5,600 public servants) will be moved out of the city centre...

Future Queensland GCIO Tipped to Get New Powers

by Staff Writers, Mon 21 July 2008

It seems any future Government CIO in Queensland may have powers that are the envy of GCIOs in every other jurisdiction in Australia – the power to implement their strategic objectives.

Speaking at an ICT industry event last month, Premier Anna Bligh announced the Queensland Government is re-thinking the position of Queensland GCIO – its authority, roles and responsibilities.

Queensland is without a permanent GCIO following the departure in December last year of Peter Grant who resigned to take up a position as head of Microsoft’s team in Queensland...


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