https://crossgov.com/tags/australia/ Recent content in Australia on CrossGov.com Hugo en-us Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://crossgov.com/us-visa-bans-and-tariff-threats-meet-europes-digital-services-act-fines-on-x-and-temu/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://crossgov.com/us-visa-bans-and-tariff-threats-meet-europes-digital-services-act-fines-on-x-and-temu/ <p>In late December 2025 Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced visa bans on five Europeans connected to online content rules. They included Thierry Breton, the former EU commissioner who had driven the Digital Services Act, and the heads of three campaign groups that work on online hate and disinformation. The European Commission strongly condemned the move. Emmanuel Macron called it intimidation and coercion. A US judge later issued a temporary order protecting one of the five, Imran Ahmed.</p> https://crossgov.com/why-government-it-projects-fail-healthcare.gov-the-fbis-virtual-case-file-and-the-lessons-from-phoenix-horizon-and-robodebt/ Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://crossgov.com/why-government-it-projects-fail-healthcare.gov-the-fbis-virtual-case-file-and-the-lessons-from-phoenix-horizon-and-robodebt/ <p>On 1 October 2013 HealthCare.gov opened and buckled on day one. The HHS inspector general later counted nearly $800 million obligated across 60 contracts by February 2014. A decade earlier the FBI had scrapped its Virtual Case File after three years and $170 million. And GAO says the federal government still spends about 80% of its more than $100 billion a year in IT on running systems it already has.</p>