Acacia overseers lacked reliable information and failed to make hard decisions: Consultant
The $355 million Acacia digital health program did not have a proper implementation plan produced un
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I know a senior ministerial advisor, who when the proposal was first presented for consideration in 2016, emailed the Ministers for DCIS and Health stating the project was high risk and should be subject to frequent monitoring by Cabinet. Maybe an incumbent Minister (or someone else) might refer the recent PAC report and attendant information to ICAC.
I can’t believe a project of this size and complexity was started without proper project management. Irresponsible isn’t strong enough. Heads should roll.
Heads dont roll if your in the club!
Their all in the family and in the club!
There appears to be a common theme between NZ and Australia here. An article by Dr Geoff Plummer and Charlie Mitchell has been published recently, reporting how the NZ Parliament has caught public agencies intentionally misleading it. In each case it has been said that “the public agency’s effort went into looking good rather than doing good”. Parliament held an inquiry into the annual reviews held with these agencies and discovered the misleading behaviour occurrences.
The next question was to understand why this behaviour occurred? The article goes into depth to explain reasons for this. Basically for me, it simply comes down to human nature, and we operate within systems that reward success and vilify mistakes, even though the success may be artificial and the mistakes real. Political parties themselves of all persuasions are not exempt from this phenomenon.
The Acacia project has been going on that long now that both major political parties in the NT have been involved and responsible for the project at different time. However, because of this there is really no provocateur to seriously want to highlight the failings of an opposition entity, and therefore to be held accountable for learning from the mistakes and the cost wastages?