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Featured, News - Monday, February 21, 2011 12:33 - 1 Comment
Queensland gets new ICT Minister
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has appointed a new minister to oversee the technology portfolio as part of a cabinet reshuffle, following the revelation last week that the state’s long-standing ICT Minister Robert Schwarten planned to retire.
In a statement issued this morning, Bligh revealed relatively new Labor MP Simon Finn would take lead the Government Services, Building Industry and ICT portfolio. Finn was previously Deputy Government Whip and parliamentary secretary to the Minister for Industrial Relations, with special responsibility for Veteran’s Affairs.
Although it maintains a low profile in most other states, the technology portfolio has shot to prominence over the past year in Queensland, after a payroll systems overhaul project at the state’s health department went disastrously wrong — leaving many medical staff without pay and Bligh threatening legal action towards one of the project’s suppliers, IBM.
In late June 2010, Bligh revealed the state would abandon its centralised IT shared services model as its exclusive structure for delivering IT services in the wake of the Queensland Health payroll disaster and damaging revelations of widespread problems in associated programs.
It is not yet known how close Finn’s relationship will be with the State Government’s technology service delivery structure, or what his experience in the technology sector has been. However, on paper his career shows little history of having much contact with the sector which he will now oversee.








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