Myki remains as Vic Govt spares IT

04.05.2011

The initiative was first announced last October by Liberal leader, Ted Baillieu, but at the time was criticised by the Law Institute of Victoria which question whether the initiative would have any impact on curbing the number of deliberately lit bushfires and would breach the rights of the potentially innocent.

"It's a gross extension of a monitoring system for people who have not been found guilty of any criminal offence and are entitled to the presumption of innocence, and we think that's an unwarranted extension of the monitoring system," institute president, Steve Stevens, said.

Other IT commitments in the 2011-2012 budget included $23.9 million for new patient administration and clinical software systems at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, and $8.2 million for VicTrack to optimise its WAN, and build fibre optic cable and unified communications platforms.