Centrelink website moving

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Centrelink will be moving their website to humanservices.gov.au.

Their new website will house information from Centrelink, Medicare and Child Support Services. Centrelink have made provisions to redirect people visiting their page to the new site, but it is recommended that you update your bookmark should you have one.

The new site is already up and running.

www.fmrsu.com.au/news-and-events/2012/04/centrelink-website-moving/

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The federal government is merging the operations of seven older data centres into a new data centre to support the operations of the Department of Human Services in a move which the government says will save about $5 million in power costs and reduce the department’s ICT carbon footprint by 50 percent.

The Minister for Human Services, Senator Kim Car, said today the new primary data centre, and a backup centre, would support nation-wide services, including Medicare, Centrelink and Child Support, that deliver $140 billion in payments to more than 20 million customers each year. The site will also support the Department of Veteran’s Affairs.

“Consolidating these systems is the next step in making these services more convenient. In particular providing one-stop-shops with Centrelink and Medicare services under the one roof,” Senator Carr said.

The Minister said customers who use the department’s online services would directly benefit from the increased ICT capacity of the “modern technology” housed in the purpose built data centre.

“Already we’ve seen an improvement in speed and reliability of the ICT services for people using the Child Support program since they moved from their old data centre to the new site.

“We’re merging almost 500 servers into just eight that provide maximum performance while reducing the space required in the data centre, resulting in lower financial and environmental costs.”

www.itwire.com/it-policy-news/government-tech-policy/54384-clean-green-new-data-centre-will-save-money-power