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The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) hosted a speech from the Federal Minister for Employment, Workforce, Skills, Small & Family Business, the Hon. Stuart Robert MP on Friday 3 December, who pledged that all government services will be online by 2025.

Macquarie Government, part of Macquarie Telecom, has secured accreditation as a "protected" cloud services provider to the federal government.

Expenditure on IT and communications in Australian government is virtually stagnant, with growth projected to barely match inflation over the next few years.

The Australian Computer Society (ACS) wants the next New South Wales government to increase focus on the start-up economy and to set up a dedicated Digital Economy ministry.

The New South Wales Department of Justice has contracted IT services provider ac3 to undertake its move to a complete ‘X-as-a-service’ model as part of its migration to the GovDC environment.

Fujitsu has been appointed to the Australian Government’s Data Centre Facilities Supplies Panel.

The NSW Government has launched a website inviting citizens to provide feedback and input on the annual update of the NSW Government’s ICT strategy.

IDC has lowered its estimate of future ICT spending in Australia. The analyst firm is now predicting a 3.0% compound annual growth rate through to 2016.

Commonwealth chief information officers need the reassurance of a new Federal ICT policy paper that takes into account developments in the G-cloud, whole of government networks and the NBN, according to Ovum research director Kevin Noonan.

The Australian Computer Society (ACS) has taken its membership to 16,000 with just under 10 percent growth in membership over two years, which the ACS says defies both the economic downturn and a ‘declining membership’ amongst ICT professional bodies globally.

Business software developer Oconics is claiming is has developed an Australian-first with what it says is “an easy-to-use website that dramatically simplifies finding services and information” offered by departments and agencies of the South Australian Government.

The South Australian Government today announced a three-year contract with Microsoft to deploy a new hosted email service, making instant messaging, an online calendar and the ability to share online documents, available to more than 80,000 students and staff at TAFE SA from next year.

South Australia’s Flinders University is deploying Microsoft’s Live@edu email solution for used by more than 16,000 undergraduate and post-graduate coursework students as the university looks to cope with increasing demands on storage and computing resources.

Australia’s now going through a period of sustained, increased demand for skilled ICT professionals and according to the largest ICT industry recruiter, Peoplebank, the Sydney, Melbourne and Perth markets, in particular, are experiencing a strong lift in demand for IT workers.

The Federal Government’s superannuation administrator, ComSuper, is undertaking a major upgrade of its network infrastructure with the implementation of a new network based on Juniper Networks Unified Access Control (UAC) solution, in the first stage IT rollout for the fund which manages superannuation for almost 700,000 public sector members.

Lindsay Tanner, Federal Minister for Finance and Deregulation, has welcomed a report on government productivity commissioned by Telstra. It contains "some very useful insights," he said.

Capgemini Australia has been added as an associate partner to the Federal Government’s Rapid Prototyping, Development and Evaluation (RPDE) program, a joint defence and industry initiative which looks at solutions to issues and problems faced by Australia’s Defence Force Warfighter organisations.

Two ICT students at Victoria University will benefit from a state government program to promote skills development. Netsolutions is providing the opportunities for industry experience.

Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner has unveiled Gershon-inspired government purchasing arrangements for desktop computers and communications services that could save more than $250 million over five years.