{"id":865983,"date":"2026-08-23T22:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T22:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/865983\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T22:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T22:26:11","slug":"services-australias-it-chief-snatched-by-reserve-bank-of-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/865983\/","title":{"rendered":"Services Australia&#8217;s IT chief snatched by Reserve Bank of Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Charles McHardie, the battle-seasoned head of Services Australia\u2019s gargantuan IT estate, has been sent into the Reserve Bank of Australia to sharpen its delivery prowess and harden the nation\u2019s financial systems. The move comes as infrastructure pressure mounts on the central bank to deliver on decade-long promised reforms and gird against cyber disruptions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McHardie has been confirmed as the RBA\u2019s new chief information officer, taking over from respected RBA veteran Stephen Smith, who has spent almost five years in the top tech job at the central bank following a seven-year stint at the RBA and more than 40 years as a technologist across banking, transport, and education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charles McHardie, the battle-seasoned head of Services Australia\u2019s gargantuan IT estate, has been sent into the Reserve Bank&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,434961,44,183,48161],"class_list":["post-865983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-charles-mchardie","tag-news","tag-reserve-bank-of-australia","tag-services-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}