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Public sector agencies have been warned to be alert to the potential for collusion between bidders during procurement processes, following a recent ACCC investigation where departmental processes contemplated cooperation by competing businesses on government tenders.

Global tech company Oracle has established a new whole-of-government (WofG) arrangement with Australia’s Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) which it claims will bring increased cost-savings, efficiencies, and flexibility for government agencies, including state and territory governments and taxpayers.

National Broadband Network operator NBN Co has come under fire from the CEPU Communications Union for the “outrageous” salary of network chief Stephen Rue, after his axing of hundreds of jobs in the middle of a pandemic and while “overseeing a shonky” NBN network rollout.  

The Australian Greens have called on the Federal Government to attach conditions to any bailout money given to airlines to provide the financial support necessary to pay all workers, rather than allowing Qantas and Virgin to stand down workers without compensation.

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) wants taxpayers to use its newly launched myDeductions online tool for logging receipts when doing their tax returns.

In the not too distant future the vast bulk of Australia’s taxpayers will conduct their business with the Australian Taxation Office almost entirely online by using the ATO’s digital services.