An examination of how governments use and engage with artificial intelligence (AI). This report analysed 200 use cases and dozens of policy initiatives around the world, including Australia, to understand how AI is applied and promoted across 11 core areas of government.

Freedom of information (FOI) is a crucial part of the beneficial information feedback loop between the government and the people. However, this submission finds that Australia's FOI system is broken and cultural and legal changes are needed to fix it. It presents the South Australian FOI review process as a model that could be adopted...

Despite widespread agreement on the need for reform, certain patterns and behaviours continue to hold back meaningful change in government – especially at the centre. This briefing paper outlines the challenges and barriers to public service reform.

Capability reviews assess an agency’s current capability and how well it is positioned to meet its future objectives and challenges. This review of the Department of Education considered the trends and challenges for delivering a higher performing national education system in the coming four years and provides a review of the capabilities considered necessary for...

This report presents the results from the 2023–24 Fraud against the Commonwealth census and the measures taken to prevent, detect or respond to fraud. Australian Government entities detected or received 288,808 allegations of fraud in 2023–24. Program information and program payments were the principal targets of substantiated internal and external fraud allegations respectively.