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  • Wadeson heads super system to unite welfare

    Centrelink chief information officer John Wadeson will be a major beneficiary this week when Human Services Minister Chris Bowen announces plans to improve how agencies in his portfolio work together and combine services

  • Cost-cutting to net NSW $500m in IT savings

    Consolidating its sprawling technology infrastructure could save the cash-strapped NSW government more than $500 million during the next five years.

  • NAB settles legal battle with former CIO

    The National Australia Bank has quietly settled a long-running legal battle with former chief information officer Ian Crouch, who had sued the institution for about $15 million in lost earnings after he was axed in a management shakeout.

  • Bankwest CIO Clasquin quits

    Bankwest chief information officer Tony Clasquin has resigned his position and will leave the institution at the end of the year.

  • Victoria Police IT "embarrassing"

    The Victoria Police IT department was a financial fiasco so mismanaged that taxpayers blew more than $80,000 leasing a property that contained nothing but an empty cupboard.

  • Westpac tech spending under special review

    Westpac Banking Corp's group head of head technology, Bob McKinnon, has collected a pay cheque of $2.089 million for the year ended November 2009, but big ticket computing items now need approval from a new special board committee, the bank's annual report says.

  • Telstra outlines plans to cut emissions by 2015

    Australia's largest telco Telstra Corporation says it plans to reduce carbon emissions for every dollar earned by up to 15 per cent over the next six years.

  • Ballmer says GFC IT spending cuts are permanent

    IT spend will never recover from drops experienced this year according to Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer.

  • CIO Gibbons to make NRMA exit

    NRMA is searching for a new chief information officer following news that Craig Gibbons will hit the road after five years with the motoring services organisation

  • DiData wins $36m SA renewal

    Dimension Data has won a three-year renewal of its contract with the South Australian Government worth $36 million.

  • Suncorp overhauls storage systems

    Financial services company Suncorp is overhauling its storage systems in a move designed to and consolidate and standardise the way it manages data storage.

  • Pay cut for Microsoft's Ballmer

    Full-year Microsoft results have shown that chief executive Steve Ballmer's compensation package is down 6 per cent on last year.

  • New CIO for Macquarie Uni

    Macquarie University has appointed Marc Bailey to the newly created role of chief information officer

  • Enron broadband executive jailed for fraud

    A former chief executive of Enron Broadband Services has been jailed for 16 months after he plead guilty to fraud

  • IT industry leaders seek closer NSW ties

    Industry leaders have called for closer ties with the NSW government as it sets out on a cost-cutting program that is expected to wipe more than $100 million from information and communications technology spending over the next four years.

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