Julian Bajkowski

Treasury’s list of pre-Christmas goodies for agencies that have been good, at least in fiscal terms, has allocated $168.8 million to greater digitisation of processes and payments. The department is phasing out a raft of legacy cheque payments and moderni... See more

The average delay for a Defence project has been calculated at around two years, or 404 months in total. That’s according to the latest Australian National Audit Office’s annual Major Projects Report on the Department of Defence, which shows just eight of... See more

A top official at the Reserve Bank of Australia has warned that the central bank, along with key financial infrastructure stakeholders, needs to rethink how it can keep operating when hit by external shocks like outages, including keeping sufficient cash ... See more

A highly ambitious plan to push thousands of Australian government financial entities off the payment platforms they currently use for payroll, social security, and onto faster, newer rails by 2030 has had its deadline very publicly torn up, with no new d... See more

The glacial progress of creating a national firearms registry in Australia, first officially recommended in the aftermath of the Port Arthur massacre in 1996, is again under the spotlight in the wake of the Bondi mass shooting, following confirmation the ... See more