We won’t be held hostage by big tech: Shorten

Bill Shorten says government must stand up to big technology firms and consultants to ensure services benefit citizens, are delivered ethically, and costly failures are avoided.

The government services minister on Tuesday revealed he had nixed the Morrison government’s in-development welfare entitlement calculator – writing off $191 million in sunk costs – and warned vendors there had been a change in approach to technology spending and outsourcing.