On 25 May, the Australian Government announced a set of principles to govern its engagement with ICT suppliers. In doing so Lindsay Tanner has hi-jacked the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) brand, and the Gershon brand to push through something that doesn’t even come close to a framework that could be leveraged into policy, and thereby taken seriously by a governing public sector body. There is zero accountability in this approach for the Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) and zero progress for operational efficiency in the Federal Government’s use of ICT. If the government wants to be releasing “outcomes” like this then they should at least have the decency to not use Gershon’s name as a shameless placebo for vapourware.