A new parliamentary probe into the Australian Public Service’s (APS) expanding catalogue of technology project failures and blowouts is set to re-ignite debate about the bureaucracy’s ongoing difficulties in attracting and retaining digital talent. The Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit (JCPAA) has quietly roped in APS tech skills as a target for scrutiny, including current professional and specialist categorisations. A major public service headache is that agencies are routinely being forced to push up