Everyone one seems so surprised about this epic failure.  This initiative was doomed before it began.  It was never intended to be a successful result.  IBM are not in this to deliver any benefit to Qld, they are not in it to help Qld Health with a legacy technology problem, they are not in it to deliver a working human resource management and payroll system - they are in it to make as much profit from a contract possible.  They've done it by cutting corners, shifting blame, unqualfied resources, a revolving door of project managers none of which have ever delivered something like this before.  They get away with it time and time again and we as the Government do nothing about it.  Come on Crown Law - you have everyone in the public service behind you. Send this prime contractor a meaningful lesson and stop paying the bills - the system they delivered is not paying us so why should we pay them.

Someone has to send them a lesson as the local papers are tough enough - they don't even get a mention in any of the News Ltd articles.