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Government Services
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: legal adviser for procurement of High Threat Security Guarding Services within the Australian Embassy compound in Baghdad, Iraq and subsequently on the domestic guarding services and security elements project.
Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and Arts (DITRDCA): advised on various aspects of variations to and the disengagement process and relevant associated documentation for DITRDCA’s contracts for ICT Infrastructure Services.
Department of the Environment and Energy: probity adviser for the Water Trade procurement processes which involves a complex statutory sale process that impacts on State stakeholders in a time sensitive environment.
Department of Environment and Energy: probity adviser for the Department's "Partnering for a sustainable environment" project to build long-term relationships with existing and new partners, to address environment and energy challenges. The project is a continuous project to implement multi-stakeholder partnering across a range of industries for proposals that are both financial and non-financial, ranging from collaboration to partnering relationships where solutions are co-created and risks and responsibilities are shared.
Department of Home Affairs: legal adviser for the procurement of Garrison and Welfare and Health Services for onshore immigration detention centres across Australia, including Christmas Island. Natasha provides ongoing advice in relation to contract variations and ad hoc advice regarding the management of various issues in relation to these contracts.
Department of Home Affairs: advised in relation to the contracts for services for Settlement Support Services in Offshore Regional Processing Countries.
Department of Home Affairs: advised in relation to legislative and contractual requirements for the Australian Border Force Standard Operating Procedures Project, which involved reviewing numerous pieces of ABF and other legislation, contracts for services with Home Affairs and various immigration detention service providers and assisting Home Affairs with risk assessments in relation to the same.
The Treasury / Australian Bureau of Statistics: legal adviser in relation to the eCensus dispute.
National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA): advised the NFSA in relation to its legal obligations regarding a range of queries relating to the NFSA's financial accountability requirements under the PGPA Act (including in relation to annual reporting) and the different categories of financial assistance and the administration of grants. This involved a consideration of:
- the types of activities which the NFSA could "support" under its enabling legislation;
- whether grants, loans and investments were forms of "financial assistance" under the enabling legislation;
- whether grants by the NFSA from its own appropriation are governed by the Commonwealth CGRGs; and
- whether there were related obligations, such as annual reporting in accordance with the PGPA Rule.
Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC): probity adviser to the OAIC’s COVIDSafe Assessment Programme.
Australian War Memorial (AWM): provided AWM with legal advice and assistance to negotiate contracts for orchestral and choir services, and intellectual property advice regarding the same.
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Telecommunications, Media and Technology
ATO: legal adviser to the ATO in relation to its procurement of Secure Internet Gateway services and Data Centre Facilities.
ATO: legal adviser in relation to the complex ICT procurement of the ATO’s suite of contractual arrangements for Network Manager, Unified Communications, Contact Centre, Mobile and Bulk SMS, Data Carriage and Fixed Voice Services.
Digital Transformation Agency (DTA): probity adviser to the DTA on its open approach to market to establish the cloud marketplace for the whole of the Australian Government. This was a major procurement process to provide a simple, clear and fast process for Australian Government agencies to buy cloud offerings and consultancy services.
Australian Electoral Commission (AEC): legal adviser for the initial and foundational capabilities for the AEC’s Modernisation Program.
Comcare: legal and probity adviser to Comcare in relation to its delegated claims management services project involving the delegation of Comcare powers under the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 (Cth) to individuals (Agency Delegates) in the Participating Agencies and the provision of claims management services to support Agency Delegates by either a third party Service Provider, Comcare, or internal Agency resources.
Department of Agriculture and Water Resources (DAWR): legal and probity adviser for DAWR's Client Management and Workload Management Project – an enterprise ICT solution for enabling both Client Management and Workload Management capabilities including to source a COTS software as a services, implementation services, design authority and governance services and future implementation services to build on the COTS software.
Department of Health (Health): legal and probity adviser for a complex procurement of an administrator of an IT payment system for 23 individual programs, combining fee for services and grant arrangements
Department of Home Affairs: legal adviser for the procurement of automated processing at Australian ports as part of the Seamless Traveller Programme. A complex ICT procurement involving the implementation of a solution to eliminate physical tickets and process travellers using contactless technology and the replacement of the physical incoming passenger card to remove the need for a manual triage process at the exit marshal point.
Department of Health: legal adviser to Health for the establishment of the National Cancer Screening Register (NCSR) to replace legacy State systems. The NCSR enables a single electronic record for each person in Australian participating in cervical and bowel screening. It is a searchable, flexible database capable of being used by a range of stakeholders to replace legacy State. Health, in co-operation with its State and Territory counterparts, sought to enter into an outcomes-based arrangement with a service provider to implement and transition from a legacy disconnected ICT System to a flexible, national COTS based system to deliver the NCSR and provide operational and support services to administer the cancer screening programs. Natasha was part of the team that negotiated and advised on complex intellectual property rights, data transfer and data protection, termination and liability regimes, transition, privacy and security obligations in relation to the collection, storage, use or disclosure of any personal information, and the quality and integrity of data within the Register.
Australian Federal Police (AFP): legal adviser to the AFP for the procurement of Strategic Integration Services to support the AFP to develop and maintain an Enterprise ICT Blueprint and Roadmap for the next 5 to 10 years, to enhance the AFP's protection capabilities.
See Telecommunications, Media and Technology
Digital Economy
Digital Transformation Agency (DTA): probity adviser to the DTA on its open approach to market to establish the cloud marketplace for the whole of the Australian Government. This was a major procurement process to provide a simple, clear and fast process for Australian government agencies to buy cloud offerings and consultancy services.
Department of Agriculture and Water Resources (DAWR): legal and probity adviser for DAWR's Client Management and Workload Management Project – an enterprise ICT solution for enabling both Client Management and Workload Management capabilities including to source a COTS software as a service, implementation services, design authority and governance services and future implementation services to build on the COTS software.
ATO: legal adviser to the ATO in relation to its procurement of Secure Internet Gateway services and Data Centre Facilities.
ATO: legal adviser in relation to the complex ICT procurement of the ATO’s suite of contractual arrangements for Network Manager, Unified Communications, Contact Centre, Mobile and Bulk SMS, Data Carriage and Fixed Voice Services.
Australian Electoral Commission (AEC): legal adviser for the initial and foundational capabilities for the AEC’s Modernisation Program.
Department of Health: legal adviser to Health for the establishment of the National Cancer Screening Register (NCSR) to replace legacy State systems. The NCSR enables a single electronic record for each person in Australian participating in cervical and bowel screening. It is a searchable, flexible database capable of being used by a range of stakeholders to replace legacy State. Health, in co-operation with its State and Territory counterparts, sought to enter into an outcomes-based arrangement with a service provider to implement and transition from a legacy disconnected ICT System to a flexible, national COTS based system to deliver the NCSR and provide operational and support services to administer the cancer screening programs. Natasha was part of the team that negotiated and advised on complex intellectual property rights, data transfer and data protection, termination and liability regimes, transition, privacy and security obligations in relation to the collection, storage, use or disclosure of any personal information, and the quality and integrity of data within the Register.
See Digital Economy
Corporate Governance
UN Women: advised UN Women on corporate governance arrangements, including amendments to its Constitution.
St Vincent de Paul Society: advised the Society in relation to its governance arrangements, options for governance restructure drafted a new Constitution. Natasha assisted the Society to transition to a new governance arrangement, including incorporating as a company limited by guarantee from an incorporated association.
Natasha has also recently completed a review of the Society's ACT and NSW Funding Guidelines and associated Application forms, to ensure consistency with the requirements of both NSW and ACT legislation for charitable collections.
Women's Centre for Health Matters (WCHM): advised the WCHM in relation to a review of the governance structure and arrangements for the Microfinance Facility for Domestic Violence Survivors in conjunction with the Domestic Violence Service and Service One.
See Corporate Governance
Not for Profit
UN Women: advised UN Women on corporate governance arrangements, including amendments to its Constitution.
St Vincent de Paul Society: advised the Society in relation to its governance arrangements, options for governance restructure drafted a new Constitution. Natasha assisted the Society to transition to a new governance arrangement, including incorporating as a company limited by guarantee from an incorporated association.
Natasha has also recently completed a review of the Society's ACT and NSW Funding Guidelines and associated Application forms, to ensure consistency with the requirements of both NSW and ACT legislation for charitable collections.
Women's Centre for Health Matters (WCHM): advised the WCHM in relation to a review of the governance structure and arrangements for the Microfinance Facility for Domestic Violence Survivors in conjunction with the Domestic Violence Service and Service One.
See Not for Profit