WA's auditor-general has found 10 major WA government IT projects, including an upgrade to the SmartRider public transport system, are a total of $1.6 billion over budget. Other projects contributing ...

Jack Carruthers, a student at Murdoch University in Perth, managed to hack into the city’s public transport travel smartcard with a classmate. According to the Public Transport Authority (PTA) of ...

In late 2023, the WA government announced the modernisation of the SmartRider system would be complete by mid-2024. Months on, the Public Transport Authority is still installing new card readers ...

Two Perth IT students who conducted a "research project" into SmartRiders have been found guilty of fraud after hacking into the Transperth-issued cards to roll-back charges and gain what they claim ...

A student who hacked into a public transport system to show it had flaws has been been found guilty of fraud after he and a co-convicted got $18 worth of free trips. Jack Carruthers, a student at ...

Members of the public will finally be able to use Transperth’s updated contactless payment system from next week, more than four years after it was first budgeted for – but there is a catch. The ...

Perth residents are no closer to being able to use their phones or debit cards to tag on for public transport because a highly anticipated SmartRider upgrade is six-and-a-half years behind schedule ...