Sydney Light Rail: Is the Value Capture price far too high?

Developers reject new $20,000 per unit tax.

9 December, 2015

Boom time for Western Sydney?

Plan to create 200,000 jobs by 2020.

7 December, 2015

CBA vacates Mike Baird’s Parramatta “dual CBD” dream

Parramatta City Council lashes CBA.

25 November, 2015

RBA tech chief calls for better digital leadership

“This is not as easy as it may sound” Reserve Bank of Australia CIO says.

5 May, 2015

Social benefit bonds pioneered in NSW

Private investors do public good.

17 February, 2015

Retail therapy prescribed for Queensland transport smartcards

By Julian Bajkowski The Queensland government has called for expressions of interest for a technological fix to allow retailers to reload the state’s public transport smartcards using the same ‘contactless’ payments terminals consumers now use to make so-called ‘tap-and-go’ purchases. The call for expressions of interest comes as the state government attempts to increase the […]

11 April, 2013

Building security culture at SIG

The annual Security in Government (SIG) Conference, hosted by the Attorney-General’s Department, is to be held from 3 – 5 September at the National Convention Centre, Canberra. The SIG Conference, now in its 24th year, began as a meeting of Agency Security Advisers in 1987. Today it has grown to become one of the leading […]

29 August, 2012

Parramatta Council led consortium takes award

The Sydney suburb of Parramatta’s own smart card – ParraSync – has fought off heavyweight competition from the Commonwealth Bank and Google to win a major award at the Smart Card Awards Asia in Singapore.   ParraSync won the award for Best Near-Field Communication Collaboration Initiative.   This integrates access to many areas of city-living […]

1 May, 2012