Stories about: Australian Electoral Commission

The Western Australian government owned electricity network utility, Western Power, has signed a three year, $A15.4 million IT services contract with Computer Services Corporation (CSC).

The NSW Electoral Commission (NSW) will develop a range of Web- and Windows-based applications to support the operation of elections paving the way for the possible introduction of online voting throughout the state.

This year's federal election will be the first to engage electronic voting when blind or vision impaired people will be able to vote at 29 locations across Australia.

More than a year after it was spun out of software giant CA, Ingres Corporation, maker of the open source database of the same name, is ramping up its local operations and reassuring customers it is here to stay.

This week we take a look into an audit report of Australian government agencies, wrap up the latest telco and browser news and look at Schneider Electric's plans to acquire American Power Conversion.

An audit of Australian government agencies has found standards around digital and physical recordkeeping lacking, with each agency audited failing to manage an electronic corporate recordkeeping system in accordance with established policy.

Two years after announcing it will migrate off the mainframe in favour of mid-range Unix systems, national patent and trademark administrator IP Australia will now keep its big iron for at least another five years.

The Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (DIMA) and the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) have both extended their outsourcing contracts with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC).

It was a big week for Telstra, the telco announced its financial results, appointed a new chief operating officer and met with the Prime Minister. Australia is creating its very own software democracy with the Australian Electoral Commission making the move to open source. The SCO Group held its annual reseller conference this week taking the opportunity to remind everyone they are not dead, SCO CEO Darl McBride said they are very much alive. Finally, Sun Microsystems launches its new business model based on free software.

If bringing total democracy to electronic voting can only happen via software source code that can be viewed by all, the Australian Electoral Commission is happy to oblige with its next-generation election application.

In what is likely to be his last Budget between the Prime Minister's office or the back bench, Treasurer Peter Costello has bet the farm on a series of across-the-board tax cuts, backed by an ambitious series of welfare reforms where big picture IT simply does not figure - at least not for this year. IT Minister Helen Coonan's portfolio is marginally poorer, while security agencies including the Department of Immigration and Attorney have walked away with significant funding boosts for biometrics, identity management and data-drilling.