I scored a great story that Queensland Premier Anna Bligh said the state might put $180 million of its telecommunications spend towards the planned National Broadband Network. The role of Queensland state chief information officer is also up for review. You can read the full story on the MISAustralia.com web site here.
Scoop! I broke the news in this morning’s Australian Financial Review that the Queensland state government’s electronic procurement website had been hacked. You can read the full story here on MISAustralia.com.
In this morning’s Australian Financial Review newspaper I had a fairly long story about how Australians are using Twitter and LinkedIn to connect. The phenomenon was particularly evident in several conferences last week, including PubCamp, and also in the opening of Apple’s first retail store in Sydney. This story caused a flurry of discussion online, [...]
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This morning I had a scoop in The Australian Financial Review that the Northern Territory’s director of information, communications and technology policy and strategy, Maryann Jamieson, had left her role.
In the wake of her departure the Northern Territory has replaced her role with a whole of government chief information officer position, similar to other states [...]
This morning my story about the New South Wales state government’s People First technology consolidation project led The Australian Financial Review’s large Tuesday IT section. The story dealt with concerns that project lacks transparency and is yet to deliver on key targets.
It’s basically a report card about the project halfway through its four-year timeframe. You [...]
I am extremely proud and happy to say that I was recently appointed to be ZDNet Australia’s new News Editor, to start in early July.
It’s been a fantastic job working at The Australian Financial Review and MIS Magazine as a technology reporter for the last year, and I can’t speak highly enough of these publications [...]
This week in a rather lengthy piece in The Australian Financial Review I examine the Australian Web 2.0 startup scene. In the article (which can be found online here) I asked for input from about ten of Australia’s most well-known internet startups and come to some broad conclusions.
Yes, there isn’t much funding around, but people [...]