Interesting front page article in The Age newspaper today <https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/fines-victoria-system-collapses-leaving-massive-hole-in-state-budget-20191022-p5333d.html> about a Victorian government IT disaster. IT disasters are routine (I'm sure we've all caused a few!) but it's interesting that they actually name the software as VIEW from a company called Civica. The article is a bit vague about what's actually wrong, it just says "[it] doesn't work", "the system was absolute chaos" and systems are not "talking to" their computers. Does anyone have inside gossip about what really happened?
There was another vast IT disaster a few years ago related to the education system I think, where dodgy contracts were being awarded to mates, and I think the loss ran into the hundreds of millions. That story vanished from the news and I never found out what happened. *Greg K*
