Oh yeh:
The man brought to Australia by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to digitally transform government services has blamed a public sector hostile to change and short on tech competence for IT disasters at the Australian Taxation Office and the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
In a stinging parting shot, former head of the Digital Transformation Office (DTO) Paul Shetler told The Australian Financial Review that initial government enthusiasm to change how public sector services are delivered in Australia had foundered in the face of institutional hostility and a lack of political support.
Shetler was effectively sidelined in October when the DTO became the Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) under new Assistant Minister for Cities and Digital Transformation Angus Taylor, and he resigned in November.
Speaking before the recurrence of the ATO’s nightmare December outage last week, Shetler outlined a public service rife with fiefdoms, ill-deserved back-slapping and unwillingness to change the way technology is deployed in order to match the modern world.
That last sentence sums up the entire elite.
