[LINK] Senator Lundy tries to stop outsourcing - again.

[Bernard Robertson-Dunn]

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I bet that the motion gets defeated

I also bet the ANOA report doesn't get tabled in the Autumn Session

I also think that gambling over the internet should be banned,
but I bet it isn't.
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Senate Notice Paper for 5 June contains the following notice of intent:

548 Senator Lundy: To move That the Senate:

(a) considers that the current government program of whole-of-government 
    information technology outsourcing is a flawed program which has:

	(i) led to a loss of departmental in-house IT expertise,

	(ii) failed to deliver the savings announced publicly by the
	Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts
	(Senator Alston), and

	(iii) had a negative impact on small to medium enterprises in the
	Australian IT and telecommunications sector;

(b) notes that the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) is currently
    undertaking an inquiry into the whole-of-government IT outsourcing
    process which is scheduled to be tabled during the autumn 2000
    sittings of Parliament; and

(c) calls on the Government immediately to put on hold the group 1 tender
    for the outsourcing of Centrelink and the Department of Family and
    Community Services to allow parliamentary scrutiny of the ANAO report.

-- 
Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it
-- Tom Stoppard

Regards
brd

Bernard Robertson-Dunn
Canberra Australia
brd@dynamite.com.au