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Corporate Commonwealth Entity
Arts, Culture, Sport and Recreation

Australian Film, Television and Radio School

Portfolio: Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts

http://www.aftrs.edu.au

Annual Budget

$40M

2026-27 Budget (Budget Paper No. 4)
+1.4%vs prior year ($39M)
Total Revenue

$35M

2024-25 Total Revenue
Staff

150

Headcount (2024-25)
Major Digital Projects
5

New Vehicle Efficiency Standard (NVES) Regulator and IT Build

Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts

Tier 2
DCA: Medium
Active

Total Budget

$79.2M

Digital Budget

$23.8M

July 2024January 2026

The establishment of a NVES for light vehicles will deliver more fuel-efficient cars for Australians and support the government’s commitment to achieve net zero by 2050. This investment is for the development of an effective ICT environment in which to manage the regulatory obligations around the NVES, such as data capture from vehicle suppliers/importers, reporting, facilitation of compliance and audit functions, and the establishment and maintenance of a NVES credit trading scheme.

Reporting and Program Management (RPM) System

Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts

Tier 2
DCA: High
Active

Total Budget

$30.8M

Digital Budget

$14.2M

July 2023June 2026

The RPM project is improving the administration of grant payments to states and territories for land transport infrastructure projects. Following recommendations from the Australian National Audit Office, the department is developing a new system, which has been designed to address evolving business needs and transition the current legacy system to a more scalable and flexible system. The RPM Project Objectives are: (1) Develop a new system to automate, simplify and streamline business processes; (2) Provide a single source of data for all grant process stages that is validated and accurate, easy to access and analyse; (3) Ensure the new system is intuitive, easy to use and flexible, and can be extended to meet future needs; and (4) Migrate data from the existing data sources into a consolidated source of truth for infrastructure investment.

Digital First (DF) Program

National Archives of Australia

Tier 3
Active

Total Budget

$25.1M

Digital Budget

$20.6M

July 2023June 2026

The National Archives of Australia has established the DF Program to uplift its ability to manage, preserve and provide meaningful access to an increasingly digital collection of records that hold national significance. In late 2025, the DF Program was rescoped to realign the work of the program to support implementation of the new Strategy 2025–2030: Evolving National Archives. The program will finish in June 2026, with additional scope relating to account and workload management to be addressed through strategy implementation.

Fighting SMS Scams

Australian Communications and Media Authority

Tier 3
Active

Total Budget

$10.9M

Digital Budget

$3.2M

October 2024July 2026

This project is enabling the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to develop, operate and maintain an SMS ID registry to help prevent scammers from impersonating brands and entities in texts, using message headers (such as myGov), and to create a trusted communications channel.

Spectrum Management

Australian Communications and Media Authority

Tier 3
Active

Total Budget

$22.7M

Digital Budget

$20.9M

October 2022May 2027

The digital spectrum management system will include a range of new and enhanced digital and ICT capabilities to support improved spectrum management.

Ideas relevant to this department

8 tagged

Reform proposals on YourGov that name this department as a delivery partner — drawn from citizen voice, government strategy, research, international examples and gap analysis.

STRATEGY SUMMARY

Working hand-in-hand with the screen and broadcast industries, AFTRS is a global centre of excellence that provides Australians with the highest level of screen and broadcast education, training, and research. [AR p.13]

VISION

We believe that a country is shaped by its stories. In an increasingly complex world Australians have never needed good stories more, to understand who we are and who we can be. As the national screen and broadcast school, AFTRS’ job is to train the talent who can create these stories. [AR p.14]

Corporate Plan 2025-26 · p.14

PURPOSE

Working hand-in-hand with the screen and broadcast industries, AFTRS is a global centre of excellence that provides Australians with the highest level of screen and broadcast education, training, and research. [AR p.13]

Corporate Plan 2025-26 · p.13

Strategic priorities

· 2

1

First Nations cultures

Corporate Plan 2025-26 · p.12
2

Outreach & Inclusion

Corporate Plan 2025-26 · p.12

Outcomes

· 3

Outcome 1: National Reach

As Australia’s national screen and broadcast school, AFTRS programs must be available to the most talented learners in all states and territories. The pillar of National Reach is supported by two strategic areas of focus—First Nations cultures and outreach and inclusion. [CP p.15]

KEY ACTIVITIES

  • Embedding First Nations’ values within AFTRS
  • Supporting under-represented talent across Australia

Outcome 2: Excellence

Working together with industry, AFTRS offers the highest level of screen and broadcast training. Our graduates are sought-after for their outstanding craft, skills and artistry. They are enterprising, highly creative, and professional. They understand the power of Australian story, underpinned by First Nations cultures, and enriched by our country’s diversity, to engage, entertain and connect audiences at home and around the world. [CP p.16]

KEY ACTIVITIES

  • Educate and train new talent
  • Empower the learning of screen and broadcast storytellers and practitioners

Outcome 3: Sustainability

AFTRS has a suite of scalable, adaptive, face-to-face and online offerings that allows AFTRS to grow its business whilst meeting local, regional, and national demand for graduates in a sustainable way for its staff, school resources, and the industry. [CP p.16]

KEY ACTIVITIES

  • Ensuring an adaptive, efficient, and sustainable business

Values

· 5

Excellence

Courage

Community

Creativity

Generosity

Performance measures

· 1

CodeMeasureTarget 2025-26Latest resultStatus

N/A

N/A

N/A

Corporate Plan 2025-26

N/A

Annual Report 2024-25
N/A

Ideas distilled from this entity's strategy & evidence

· 8

Regulation & Policy

Build a public dashboard showing weekly active-compliance-monitoring counts by remote learning strategy

Create a public dashboard to monitor the progress of the remote learning strategy and show weekly active compliance counts.

Impact: Medium
Effort: High
Medium

2024-25.pdf [AR p.12]

Research & Innovation

Adopt the UK’s Innovate UK’s Industry-Academic Collaboration Model

Implement a model where AFTRS collaborates with industry to fund and conduct research projects.

Impact: High
Effort: High
Large

association-worldbank.org-governance.txt

Citizen Services

Conduct a bi-annual review of the Student Success Pathways Framework

Go beyond the annual review by conducting bi-annual reviews to ensure the framework adapts to student needs.

Impact: Medium
Effort: Medium
Medium

2025-26.pages.jsonl [CP p.14]

Citizen Participation

Stream First Nations media and education conferences live on AFTRS’ website

Stream live conferences to increase accessibility for First Nations students and communities.

Impact: High
Effort: Low
Small

2025-26.pages.jsonl [CP p.12]

Industry Skills Training

Implement a quarterly feedback loop with industry partners on training programs

Go beyond annual reviews by establishing a quarterly feedback loop with industry partners to refine training programs.

Impact: Medium
Effort: Medium
Medium

2025-26.pages.jsonl [CP p.14]

Research & Innovation

Create a digital repository for disseminating faculty-driven research projects

Establish a digital repository to make faculty-driven research projects easily accessible.

Impact: High
Effort: Medium
Medium

2025-26.pages.jsonl [CP p.14]

Regulation & Policy

Implement all recommendations from the Disability Action Plan

Complete the implementation of all recommendations from the Disability Action Plan.

Impact: High
Effort: High
Medium

2024-25.pdf [AR p.12]

Citizen Participation

Expand partnerships with 10 additional Culturally and Racially Marginalised (CARM) community-led projects

Expand partnerships to include 10 additional CARM community-led projects.

Impact: High
Effort: Medium
Medium

2025-26.pages.jsonl [CP p.12]

Regulation & Policy

Build a public dashboard showing weekly active-compliance-monitoring counts by remote learning strategy

Create a public dashboard to monitor the progress of the remote learning strategy and show weekly active compliance counts.

Impact: Medium
Effort: High
Medium

2024-25.pdf [AR p.12]

Research & Innovation

Adopt the UK’s Innovate UK’s Industry-Academic Collaboration Model

Implement a model where AFTRS collaborates with industry to fund and conduct research projects.

Impact: High
Effort: High
Large

association-worldbank.org-governance.txt

Citizen Services

Conduct a bi-annual review of the Student Success Pathways Framework

Go beyond the annual review by conducting bi-annual reviews to ensure the framework adapts to student needs.

Impact: Medium
Effort: Medium
Medium

2025-26.pages.jsonl [CP p.14]

Citizen Participation

Stream First Nations media and education conferences live on AFTRS’ website

Stream live conferences to increase accessibility for First Nations students and communities.

Impact: High
Effort: Low
Small

2025-26.pages.jsonl [CP p.12]

Industry Skills Training

Implement a quarterly feedback loop with industry partners on training programs

Go beyond annual reviews by establishing a quarterly feedback loop with industry partners to refine training programs.

Impact: Medium
Effort: Medium
Medium

2025-26.pages.jsonl [CP p.14]

Research & Innovation

Create a digital repository for disseminating faculty-driven research projects

Establish a digital repository to make faculty-driven research projects easily accessible.

Impact: High
Effort: Medium
Medium

2025-26.pages.jsonl [CP p.14]

Regulation & Policy

Implement all recommendations from the Disability Action Plan

Complete the implementation of all recommendations from the Disability Action Plan.

Impact: High
Effort: High
Medium

2024-25.pdf [AR p.12]

Citizen Participation

Expand partnerships with 10 additional Culturally and Racially Marginalised (CARM) community-led projects

Expand partnerships to include 10 additional CARM community-led projects.

Impact: High
Effort: Medium
Medium

2025-26.pages.jsonl [CP p.12]

Legislation administered

· 2

Act

1973

Australian Film, Television and Radio School Act 1973

The entity administers this Act to provide education, training, and research to the screen and broadcast sector.

Act

2013

Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013

The entity operates under this Act as a Commonwealth statutory authority.

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