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Daniel Beecham quits as UNSW CDO
The University of New South Wales’ chief digital officer, Daniel Beecham will leave in 2019 after spending only a year-and-a-half in the role.
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Mark Gay leaves BetEasy, joins QBE as new CIO
Mark Gay has left his job as chief digital officer at BetEasy (formerly CrownBet) and will join QBE Insurance on November 19 as its new CIO.
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Aidan Coleman moving to Scentre Group
Aidan Coleman is leaving his post as CTO at property group Charter Hall and is moving across to Scentre Group in the new role of general manager, tech platforms.
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NAB and Microsoft design AI ATM
National Australia Bank (NAB) and Microsoft have designed a proof of concept automatic teller machine (ATM) using artificial intelligence and cloud computing technologies.
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ACCC puts telcos on notice over false advertising
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has warned telecommunications companies that they will face court action if they fail to ensure their advertising is clear and transparent.
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Claire Rawlins leaves Coles
Coles’ chief innovation officer Claire Rawlins has left the retail giant just over four months after stepping into the role. Rawlins has joined Salesforce as vice president, strategic advisor according to her LinkedIn profile.
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State of the CIO 2018
It’s perhaps no surprise that driving business innovation ranked as the top strategic imperative for technology and digital chiefs responding to this year’s State of the CIO survey.
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Tech chiefs to vendors: You’re pretty average, really
Tech vendors are doing an average job of meeting the needs of their customers, according to respondents to this year’s State of the CIO survey.
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NSW govt nabs Pia Andrews as new exec director
The NSW government has lured Pia Andrews back to Australia as the new executive director of digital government. Andrews is reporting to government chief information and digital officer, Greg Wells.
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Stephen Rue new NBN chief
NBN Co has promoted its CFO Stephen Rue to chief executive, replacing Bill Morrow who announced in April that he was leaving the top job.
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Australian companies have failed to digitally scale: Gartner
A meagre 8 per cent of Australian enterprises are getting results from their digital transformation activities, according to a new report.
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‘They had hideous girly posters on the wall in the tea room’
Kim Wenn recalls her time as a young IT exec computerising manual processes at Australian Paper Manufacturers in Victoria in the 1980s.
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Victoria’s Environment Protection Authority in IoT push
Victoria’s Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has an IT overhaul underway that is seeing the department create a new data exchange to analyse information from potentially thousands of IoT devices in the field.
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Rob Fitzpatrick quits the AIIA
The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) said on Thursday that its chief executive officer, Rob Fitzpatrick has resigned and will move to a new role at an early stage tech startup.
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Jackson Chan leaves Garvan
Jackson Chan has lost his job as chief information officer at Garvan Institute of Medical Research, a role that he held since March last year.
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Australian companies suck at data analytics
Australian organisations lag behind the rest of the world when it comes to extracting value from their data analytics efforts.
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ACMA sets final rules for telcos installing NBN
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) on Monday unveiled a final set of new rules requiring telecommunications service providers to help their customers move more easily to the NBN.
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Finance selects Salsa Digital for next GovCMS
The Department of Finance has selected Victorian company Salsa Digital to operate GovCMS, the whole-of-government content management system.
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George Cozaris new tech chief at Melbourne Health
George Cozaris is the new chief information officer at Melbourne Health in a newly created role.
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Bank of Queensland squares away payment deal
Bank of Queensland (BOQ) has struck a deal with Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s Square to market contactless and chip card payments to small businesses.
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Mike Wright leaving Telstra after 38 years
Telstra’s group managing director networks, Mike Wright is leaving the company he joined as a graduate in 1980. Brisbane-based Wright will leave the telco in September.
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Ursula Phillips joins The Real Pet Food Company
Former PepsiCo Australia and New Zealand technology boss, Ursula Phillips, will join The Real Pet Food Company in August as its Sydney-based chief information officer.
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Sydney Airport in first stages of facial recognition trial
Sydney Airport is in the first stages of trialing ‘couch to gate’ facial recognition technology in conjunction with carrier, Qantas.
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UNSW student designs system to improve IVF success rates
A final year medicine student at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has designed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that's helping women become pregnant using IVF techniques.
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CEFC pumps $35M into smart meters
The Clean Energy Finance Group (CEFC) has pumped $35 million in debt funding into smart meter technology provider intelliHUB.
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Matt Toohey new ME tech chief
Former Bankwest exec Matt Toohey is the new chief information officer at ME. Toohey replaces Craig Ralston, ME’s group executive of customer banking, who had been acting CIO since Mark Gay’s departure last November.
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Barry Mather leaves Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service
Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service's (SCHHS) chief information officer, Barry Mather walked out the door for the last time today after spending three-and-a-half-years in the role.
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Paul Keen moves to Qantas
Former Airtasker CTO Paul Keen is the new head of software engineering at Qantas. Keen, who left the gig economy player last month, is reporting to Qantas chief technology, Rob James who joined the airline last May.
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Disability scheme’s tech woes out of NDIA’s control: former chairman
A key architect of the National Disability Insurance Scheme said that technology issues which have plagued the national scheme are out of the NDIA’s control.
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Centrelink automation failing vulnerable people: report
Australia’s most vulnerable people are falling through the cracks as Centrelink services become more automated, according to a new report.
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Pascal Boillat new CBA tech chief
Commonwealth Bank has hired Deutsche Bank’s London-based group CIO, Pascal Boillat as its new technology chief, following an executive restructure announced today.
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DTA CEO Gavin Slater departs
Gavin Slater will leave the government’s Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) at the end of the month after little more than 12 months in the role.
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Australian startups tackle harassment, discrimination
A group of Australian tech startups have drafted a code of conduct in an attempt to stamp out sexual harassment, discrimination and offensive language across the community.
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Andrew Walduck leaving Australia Post
Australia Post has confirmed that Andrew Walduck will leave the organisation in early July after more than six years in various technology and digital roles.
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VIC govt project processes ‘not accurate’: audit
Victorian government agencies have limited oversight and assurance of the completeness of their reported technology projects and data, according to a new report by the Victorian Auditor-General’s Office.
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Bankwest transformation ‘absolutely about survival’: Andy Weir
Bankwest isn’t embarking on a digital transformation because it’s trying to be ‘cool or trendy’ or do something different to its competitors. The transformation is “absolutely about survival” and making sure the bank can exist in an increasingly digital environment, says its tech boss Andy Weir.
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Stephen Haddad new CTO at Austereo
Southern Cross Austereo’s head of technology Stephen Haddad has been promoted to chief technology officer following a restructure which has seen the company’s regional and metropolitan business units merged.
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Terry Powell new Domino’s CIO
Pizza retailer Domino’s has appointed former Suncorp exec Terry Powell as its new group chief information officer, following the recent departure of long-standing tech boss, Wayne McMahon.
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Macquarie launches cloud for health data
Macquarie Cloud Services on Tuesday launched a secure private cloud offering for the health care sector.
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One-third of NBN users want their old service back
More than one-third of NBN users responding to a survey say they would revert back to their previous broadband service if they had the option.
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Sydney law firm considers class action against PageUp
Sydney law firm Centennial Lawyers on Friday said it was considering initiating a class action against Australian software-as-a-service provider PageUp, which earlier this week released details of a possible data breach that took place in May.
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ITPA ‘appalled’ by Bill Morrow’s comments on gamers
Information Technology Professionals Association (ITPA) said on Thursday that it is “appalled” at attempts by NBN’s outgoing CEO Bill Morrow to lay the blame for congestion and service degradation on its fixed wireless network at the feet of gamers.
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Swinburne University steps up hybrid cloud
Melbourne’s Swinburne University of Technology had been hosting core apps and systems in its two Hawthorn data centres for quite some time. But things are changing as the institution steadily moves towards a hybrid cloud environment.
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Kathleen Mackay quits Boral
Boral’s head of digital delivery Kathleen Mackay has quit after just over a year in the role at building and construction giant.
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Updated: Airtasker CTO Paul Keen quits
Airtasker’s chief technology officer Paul Keen has left the Australian gig economy player after just over two years in the role.
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How Roy Hill is using IoT to manage lighting towers
Western Australian mining giant Roy Hill had a problem: A significant number of vital lighting towers that illuminate mining tenements were simply being lost between shifts.
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Automation putting society’s most vulnerable at risk: Techfugees co-founder
Technology-driven automation and mechanisation is completely meaningless if its impact on humans – particularly the most vulnerable among us – is not taken into consideration, says Techfugees co-founder, Anne-Marie Elias.
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Maddocks hires machine to do its due diligence
Law firm Maddocks will start using artificial intelligence to streamline its due diligence process thanks to a new deal with Luminance AI.
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