Ships Turned Away As Aussie Customs' IT System Melts Down

An anonymous reader writes "Urgent shipments of medicine and goods for the holiday season have been turned away by customs officials due to a massive computer problem. The initial budget for the system upgrade was said to be A$80 million but has since blown out to A$250 million. Customs officials and the government have been forced to admit that they might actually have to revert to the old system if things don't improve. One cargo user said on national TV that he used to process 300 orders daily but the new system is so complex and unusable, he's happy if he can manage 100 orders per day. The system failure is expected to have a massive impact especially on the retail sector this Christmas."

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Re:Sad Christmas

[rlanctot]

Just substitute a Koala, that's what the Australian politicans have been doing for years. (They don't have dogs down there, do they? Ya, Koalas.)

Must have been coded in India

[tfiedler]

Rate me a flame, a troll, or whatever.

The system must have been coded in India or some other third world code mill via an outsourced project conducted by some stupid government bureaucrat seeking to low ball a budget estimates.