Australian IT - Searching Aussie talent pool (Simon Hayes, AUGUST 02, 2005)

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"A CRACKDOWN on criminals by British Prime Minister Tony Blair could provide a fertile market for Australian software developers. The head of Britain's Criminal Justice Information Technology project is in Australia to audition local developers for slots in a $5.18 billion revamp of technology in the country's police, courts and prisons. Mr Blair, who once described British justice as 'a 19th-century system trying to solve crime in the 21st century', has identified equipping police, prosecutors and the court system with better technology as a key to the fight against crime. Criminal Justice IT project head John Suffolk, a Home Office director-general is visiting Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney this week as part of an Austrade-organised mission to seek technology for the overhaul.
Mr Cliff said Australia was more advanced than Britain in adopting content management systems, giving local developers an advantage. "