Stories by Trevor Clarke

An interview with the managing director of VMware Australia, Paul Harapin

The Australian Tax Office's (ATO) technical deployment of the nation's new income tax IT system looks set to go ahead as scheduled from Friday January 22.

CXO talks with Mark Woolf, the CEO of the Cruising Yacht Club Of Australia prior to the Sydney to Hobart race.

The failure of Australia's political leaders to agree on a way forward to tackle the global climate change threat as embodied by the voting down of the proposed emissions trading scheme (ETS) in the Senate today will have costly consequences.

Australia's GDP has been forecast to grow at 2.5 per cent next year and 3.5 per cent in 2011 in the most recent economic outlook by the Organisation for Economic Development (OECD).

The company responsible for rolling out the National Broadband Network has appointed two new senior staff. NBN Co announced former British Telecom employee and current AAPT consultant, Claire Rawlins, will take on the role of chief information officer (CIO), while the Queensland premier's chief of staff, Mike Kaiser, will become principal for government relations and external affairs.

The call by the Food and Agriculture Organisation's director general, Jacques Diouf for more investment in agriculture in developing nations is one that should be viewed not just as an effort to feed the world's one billion hungry people, but also as a way to stimulate economic development.

Australia has come in as the 8th least corrupt country in Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI).

The APEC leaders' declaration at the end of the regional grouping's summit in Singapore has been welcomed, except for one glaring omission.

Chandra-Bibit may not be a familiar story to many Australians, but for those keeping an eye out on our neighbours to the north it is a riveting yarn.

The Federal Government has released its first response to a comprehensive review of Australia's privacy laws in the digital age.

Federal Government agencies are likely to adopt a self-assessment tool created by the UK Office of Government Commerce to evaluate their ICT capabilities within the month as part of Gershon Review changes.

Identity and knowing who governments are dealing with has emerged as the top priority over the next 12 months for South Australia's CIO, Andrew Mills.

The renewal of a $36 million ICT services contract between the South Australian government and Dimension Data last week, that saw the value of the deal drop by $4 million but with an increased scope, is a sign of things to come, according to the state’s CIO.

The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) is trekking down the open source path, putting out a tender for a content management system (CMS) to integrate with a planned new website.