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Wed 15 Dec 2021						Recipient:6112MSZ1
REF: AEAMLFq1	      	IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST		Y/R: GovDex

Zali STEGGALL OAM MP					E: 
Federal Member for Warringah				M:{61}(4}
AUSTRALIAN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES			P: {61}(2)
PO Box 450 MANLY NSW 1655				W: zalisteggall.com.au

Dear Zali					cc	Australian Legislators 
							Interested Parties eg Rate-payers

	IS LIST OF "GOVDEX" USERS STILL AVAILABLE ?

Please find below two letters that were posted On-line to the newly appointed Executive General  
Manager of the new Australian Digital Health Agency [ADHA] which replaced the National 
eHealth Transition Authority [NeHTA] on 01 Jul 2016

These letters were

2	21 Nov 2016 Published Aus GovDex users in 2009

1	24 Oct 2016 Health Information Security concerns with "Blockchain Technologies"

Unfortunately the links to Government GovDex web-sites no longer provide the documents

Perhaps you as Federal Member of Parliament may be able to locate and review these 
documents 

In the meantime you may wish to review the attached GovDex XML schema which provides 
evidence that both the Simple address and the Complex address can be used in Government 
documentation

The question is why is the list of GovDex users no longer available ?

2	21 Nov 2016 Published Aus GovDex users in 2009
1	24 Oct 2016 Health Information Security concerns with "Blockchain Technologies"

Mon 21 Nov 2016						Recipient: 611HDAc1
REF:AACHKLN1 		IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST		Y/R: Australian Health Costs

TO:	Bettina McMAHON		 		cc	Fed Minister for Health
	Executive General Manager, 			Federal, State & Local Gov
	Government & Industry Collaboration & Adoption   				
	AUSTRALIAN DIGITAL HEALTH AGENCY	
	L25 56 Pitt St   SYDNEY   2000			Interested Parties

Dear Executive General Manager 

	PUBLISHED AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT USER LIST OF GOVDEX IN 2009 

As you are aware from the US Federal Government Election many members of 
their Democracy are concerned about how the US Government is currently acting 
hence the vote for a Candidate who was prepared to tackle how "The System" 
operates

As we all know the Australian Electorate is far more compliant and believes 
"she'll be right"

We have provided evidence to demonstrate that overseas ICT organisations 
including IBM, Microsoft and Sap utilised Australian Federal Government largess 
via an Information Technology On-line [ITOL] Grant to develop BizDex for the 
Australian Wheat Board in 2002

BixDex/GovDex was developed as a Fraudulent Invoicing System to outflank the 
"Food-for Oil" embargo on Iraq in 2004

It now appears that GovDex has been installed in most if not all Australian 
Government Agencies judging by the attached documents:

1	2006 Australian Government e-gov Strategy

2	P 23 of that Strategy

3	2009 list of Australian Government GovDex Users     

P 23 of the Australian Government 2006 e-gov Strategy states

 "The Australian Government will introduce a new project management process 
known as Gateway™ to improve the delivery of major projects.

Gateway™ is a project assurance methodology originally implemented by the
United Kingdom's Office of Government Commerce in 2000, and has been used 
in Victoria since 2003".

However the UK Gateway™ Project Assurance Methodology does not appear to 
work in Australia according to the article by Judith SLOAN The Weekend 
Australian 16 Jan 2016 "Digital Disasters Haemorrhage Bucketfuls of Money"  

or is it the ICT Unions again  ?

According to p23 of the 2006 e-gov Strategy 

 "The adoption of common, standardised, modular business processes by 
government agencies is intended to eliminate or change duplicated, redundant 
and inefficient processes. 

This will require the re-use and sharing of existing systems.

A repository will be established so that agencies can discover, publish and re-use
information, business processes and systems in a trusted environment. 

One possible repository, GovDex, is being trialled by selected government 
agencies"  

According to the Red Wahoo web-site in 2004 Red Wahoo developed the 
schema for GovDex with a simple and complex address in the same Schema 

And according to the attached 2009 list of Australian Government GovDex users 
every Federal and State Government Department uses GovDex

What will the new amalgamated Councils use ?

NEXT STEPS

The costs of GovDex will be minimised if Australia passes legislation like the US 
Government did in 1996 to make the electronic Address format of the forms 
used for the Uniform Civil Procedures Rules [UCPR]2005 (NSW) as the format required 
for all Address formats in all electronic communications

Yours sincerely



Peter AXTENS LLB (Retired)		Stephen GOULD
Chair - NSW Digital Economy Review Cmt	Chair - On-line eBusiness Promotion Cmt
SUSTAINABILITY ACTION NETWORK		OPEN INTERCHANGE CONSORTIUM 

B:PO Box 517 Neutral Bay Junction   2089
E: trustee.THD@gmail.com
M: {61}(0)416-009-468

Att

A 2004 Red Wahoo developed XML Name & Address Schema for GovDex

B 2006 Australian Government e-gov Strategy

C 2006 p23 of that Strategy

D 2009 list of Australian Government GovDex Users

Mon 24 Oct 2016						Recipient: 611HDAc1
REF:AACHJON1 		IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST		Y/R: Australian Health Costs

TO:	Bettina McMAHON		 		cc	Fed Minister for Health
	Executive General Manager, 			Federal, State & Local Gov
	Government & Industry Collaboration & Adoption   				
	AUSTRALIAN DIGITAL HEALTH AGENCY	
	L25 56 Pitt St   SYDNEY   2000			Interested Parties

Dear Executive General Manager 

	"HEALTH INFORMATION SECURITY" CONCERNS WITH "BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGIES" 

Further to your response dated 19 Sep 2016 to our letter dated 09 Aug 2016 that 
was referred to the Hon Sussan LEY MP Federal Minister for Health and Aged
Care and Minister for Sport,  we note that you state

>On page 3 of the quoted October 2009 report, you will see that Working Group 
>5 (Health Cards) was replaced with a Task Force reporting to Working Group 4 
>(Security) hence their absence from the list of working groups

That report was dated 2009 and since then there have been great technology 
strides with the "cashless society", "the Digital Economy" and "Blockchain 
Technologies" to resolve the "Security issues of a cashless society" 

However, as many pundits endeavoured to point out since 1997 with the Y2K 
issue, the Information & Communications Technology (ICT) industries have 
provided "Advice" to Governments that appear to be in the interests of their 
industries and not in the interest to the Public ref 2016-01-16 The Australian "
"Digital Disasters haemorrhage bucketsful of money"

Examples of this include multiple Health ICT Standards recommended by a 
Transition Authority [NeHTA], "Big Data in Health" and the myriad of Education 
and Defence projects over the past 10-years that have not achieved cost or 
timetable budgets even though they may have used the latest Project 
Management Methodologies like "PMBoK" and "PRINCE2" 

In fact people who have received their "PMBoK or PRINCE2 Project Management 
Qualification have said, "the Project Management tools ensure that no one is 
accountable for the project failure because it is too expensive to review all 
the copious documentation produced by the Methodologies !" 

This trend appears to be continued by Blockchain Technologies which many of 
the Banks and Insurance companies are evaluating for "Security" issues

An article by Peter MOON Technology Lawyer in the Australian Financial Review 
[AFR] on Tue 27 Sep 2016 "Building system inefficiencies may be a better 
security measure" illustrates why there are Public Concerns with the way large 
organisations like Banks and Insurance companies are evaluating "Block Chain 
Technologies"

To some people it appears that these new Technologies will consume 
increasing amounts of computer power and electricity to "produce a new 
block every 10 minutes" to be stored by many distributed computer
 systems as a Data Security protocol

NEXT STEPS

We note that your letter states"

"In the near future, the Agency will be undertaking consultation with digital health 
stakeholders about the My Health Record system and would welcome your 
contribution"

We would be pleased to include further information on "Blockchain Technologies"
as part of our contribution

Yours sincerely



Peter AXTENS LLB (Retired)		Stephen GOULD
Chair - NSW Digital Economy Review Cmt	Chair - On-line eBusiness Promotion Cmt
SUSTAINABILITY ACTION NETWORK		OPEN INTERCHANGE CONSORTIUM 

B:PO Box 517 Neutral Bay Junction   2089
E: trustee.THD@gmail.com
M: {61}(0)416-009-468

Att

A 2016-09-27 AFR "Building system inefficiencies may be a better security measure"

B 2016-02-02 Wall Street Journal "What is Blockchain ?"

C 2016-01-16 The Australian "Digital Disasters haemorrhage bucketsful of money"

D Wikipedia - Blockchain (Database)

E Blockchain.com

LEGEND

EDI	Electronic Data Interchange
SME	Small and Medium size Enterprises
UNFCCC  United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [UNFCCC]
XML	Extensible Mark-up Language


I	Other Inner West Council Documents that are part of the CSP2036

	a	Strategies
	b	Plans
	c	Statements
	r	Research References

a	Strategies

Is1 Resourcing Strategy [ReS] 2018-2028 Adopted Jun 2018- PDF File		
Is2 Climate + Renewables Strategy [CRS] - draft On-line		
Is3 Employment and Retail Lands Strategy [EaRLS] - PDF File		
Is4 Housing Strategy [HS] - PDF File
Is5 Integrated Transport Strategy [ITS] Adopted 03 Mar 2020 - PDF File
Is6 Asset Management Strategy [AMS]2018-28 Adopted Jun 2018 - PDF File		
Is7 Workforce Management Strategy [WMS] 2018-22 Adopted Jun 2018 - PDF File		
Is8 Information and Communication Technology [ICT] Strategy 2018-2022 Adopted Jun 2018 - PDF File

b	Plans

Ip1 Community Strategic Plan [CSP] 2036 Endorsed Jun 2019 - On-line
Ip2 Economic Strategic Development Plan [EDSP] draft - On-line
Ip3 Long Term Financial Plan 2019-2029 Adopted Jun 2019 - PDF File

c	Statements

It1 Local Planning Statement [LPS]		

r	References

R6 2019-01-19 Adelaide Advertiser: Compensation paid to Slave Owners 1835 - 2015 (180 yrs)

R5 2003-2014 Value of Volunteers to Australian State Economies

R4 2014-11-07 IBM "Blockchain" solution for the Diamond Industry Video

R3 1997 Lessons from a Dozen Years of Group Support Systems Research - 4,000 IBM projects

R2 Sir Evelyn de Rothschild - Director De Beers 1977-1994 & IBM UK 1972-1995

R1 1987-04-23 RUBAC Automatic eProcess Synchronisation Video

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