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Departing Digital Transformation Office chief Paul Shetler has slammed the public service's lack of internal skills.

APS lacks the right staff

The government spends more than $16 billion a year on IT and there are real questions about whether we get value for money.

Entire ATO website down

Andrew Leigh made fun of the error on Twitter.

The Tax Office ruled out a census-style "denial of service" attack as the reason for the loss of its entire website, saying the massive failure was due to hardware problems "not being caused by any external factors".

APS lacks the right staff

Departing Digital Transformation Office chief Paul Shetler has slammed the public service's lack of internal skills.

The government spends more than $16 billion a year on IT and there are real questions about whether we get value for money.