Capability 2.2.11

Public Administration

Definition

Administrative and institutional datasets generated by government operations, including defence, emergency and security data, as well as decision logs, tax and benefits records, service delivery data and procurement registers.

Examples

AusTender Procurement Data (Department of Finance)
Taxation Statistics (Australian Taxation Office). Administrative Appeals Tribunal Decision Register
Open Government Data Portal (data.gov.au) and curated administrative releases, access to National Health Survey data (ABS).

Indicators

Cross-government data sharing frameworks e.g. Data Availability and Transparency Act 2022 (Cth)
Standardised metadata schema
Federated compliance and scalability (legal and institutional interoperability)
FAIR compliance (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable)
CARE compliance (collective benefit, authority to control, responsiblilty and ethics)
Provenance and lineage tracking
Consent frameworks
Onshore hosting and secure processing environments (e.g. SURE)
Clear licensing
Longevity and version control
Domain specific data standards
Machine readiness formatting

National AI Plan

PLAN COMMITMENT

Moderate commitment

See general comment at 2.2.1 (Language, Arts, Culture & History). Non-specific and conditional commitment to explore ways to expand access to some government datasets (Action 2) and to improve APS data maturity and scale public service AI via GovAI, capability uplift and agency-level adoption (Action 6). Moderate commitment by government in the plan aligns roughly with the recommendation to close a critical gap, although greater attention is recommended.

Stocktake

AusTender Contract Notice Export. Australian Government / Department of Finance. Accessed October 2025. www.data.gov.au/data/dataset/austender-contract-notice-export
AusTender ICT Procurement Statistics. Australian Government / Department of Finance. Accessed October 2025. https://www.data.gov.au/data/dataset/groups/austender-ict-procurement-statistics
Taxation statistics. Australian Taxation Office. Accessed October 2025. https://www.ato.gov.au/about-ato/research-and-statistics/in-detail/taxation-statistics
Administrative Appeals Tribunal decision register (AAT). Attorney-General’s Department / Administrative Review Tribunal. Accessed October 2025. https://online.aat.gov.au/eCaseSearch

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