Stories about: Auditor General

The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) this week released its audit on the government's third sale of Telstra shares, T3, concluding that the sale represented effective and efficient use of public money despite lavish hotel bills for a roadshow promoting the sale, inflated legal and communications adviser costs and selling commissions of over $204 million.

Australia's $8 billion National Broadband Network (NBN) has been set back for at least another 12 weeks, after the government bent under pressure to extend the tender October deadline.

The most widespread and comprehensive IT program ever undertaken by the Victorian Public Health System is running behind schedule and has only installed a quarter of the planned applications, despite spending over half its budget, according to the Victorian Auditor-General's Office.

IT executives are interested in using established frameworks to improve technology governance, but they just don't have enough bodies to do the job, according to a newly released global survey.

E-mails released by the National Audit Office have confirmed that officials at HM Revenue and Customs did not want to remove sensitive information from child benefit data sent to the auditors because this would cost extra.

HM Revenue and Customs failed to "desensitise" the data on 25 million people that it lost in transit to the National Audit Office because removing bank details and other sensitive information would have required an extra payment to data management contractor EDS, the Conservative Party has claimed.

Canadian government agencies are failing to meet security standards on industrial contracting procedures, leaving sensitive government information vulnerable.

A concerted effort to consolidate three enterprise applications at the NSW department of commerce has hit a snag in the form of a $5 million cost blow-out, according to the NSW Auditor-General.

The NSW Department of Health has spent 15 years struggling to develop an electronic purchasing catalogue that is still nowhere near completion.

Having been anointed by public service chief Peter Sheregold as to lead government CIOs towards cohesive government ICT strategy, Australian Government CIO Ann Steward has been charged with fulfilling public service IT delivery expectations great and small.

Human Services minister Joe Hockey has resurrected the introduction of national services smartcards, and vowed to make technology deliver the goods to his $80 billion portfolio and sack public servants responsible if they stuff up his IT shop.