Stories by Rohan Pearce

Telstra seeks to boost tech skills pipeline

Telstra has revealed details of new partnership with Australian universities that it said will help boost the skills pipeline in high-demand areas such as network and software engineering, information security and analytics.

Written by Rohan Pearce16 Oct. 19 14:09

IBM and Vocus settle Census outage lawsuit

IBM, Vocus and Vocus subsidiary Nextgen have settled a lawsuit relating to the high-profile failure of the Australian Census website in 2016.

Written by Rohan Pearce15 Oct. 19 15:27

Government eyes health insurers' data to help uncover Medicare fraud

The Department of Health has launched a public consultation on proposed legislation that would lay the basis for increased data-matching between government entities in order to uncover fraudulent or incorrect Medicare claims. The proposal could also see the data provided from private health insurers automatically matched against government data holdings to red flag potential fraud.

Written by Rohan Pearce23 Sept. 19 18:08

NSW revamps project funding, seeks to end ‘tech spaghetti’

The New South Wales government this year embarked on the “biggest and boldest” machinery of government changes that Victor Dominello has witnessed, the MP last week told a Committee for Economic Development of Australia luncheon in Sydney.

Written by Rohan Pearce02 Sept. 19 11:47

ACCC seeks testers for new data-sharing regime

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is seeking parties to participate in early testing of the new data-sharing system, the Consumer Data Right (CDR).

Written by Rohan Pearce26 Aug. 19 13:17

Huawei sheds Australian jobs as 5G ban begins to bite

Huawei says it has cut its Australian headcount by 100, with the Chinese telco equipment manufacturer blaming a government decision to bar it from participating in the roll out of 5G networks.

Written by Rohan Pearce23 Aug. 19 08:48
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