Each month we publish a themed deep-dive report covering a specific government service area. Reports combine our survey data, scraped commentary analysis, department profiles, and governance pattern identification.
Independent review of the DTA's Major Digital Projects Report 2026: 124 projects across 43 federal agencies, $11.30B total budget, $6.39B digital. The 21 Tier 1 flagships, the 20 that improved and 15 that worsened year-on-year, the hard-deadline risk register (Payday Super 1 July 2026 at Medium-Low, 2026 Census, AEC Indigo), citizen-cohort heatmap and the structural gaps the MDPR is not allowed to show (Defence carve-out, sub-threshold).
The first independent map of who runs Australian place-data: 8 federal custodians (Finance, ONDC, GA, CSIRO, ABS, BOM, DCCEEW, ABARES), 8 state spatial agencies, 100+ datasets across 14 thematic buckets, and the energy market — 200 TWh, 83 GW, 17.3 GW of coal closing by 2047 — as the live case study. Includes an interactive problem-to-dataset selector and 6 structural data gaps with no current owner.
Portfolio-by-portfolio breakdown of Chalmers' 2026-27 Budget. Tax reform (negative gearing, CGT discount, trusts), $47B housing, NDIS overhaul, Defence to 3% of GDP, the $14.8B fuel resilience response to the Iran war oil shock — plus peak-body and political reactions and a curated winners/losers list.
Live tracking of the Albanese Government's 11 strategic pillars — sentiment temperature, commitment delivery status, and public opinion analysis across cost of living, healthcare, housing, education, energy, defence, immigration, digital, aged care, NDIS, and workplace reform.
A searchable index of department strategy priorities extracted from structured entity snapshots. Browse all priorities, filter by keyword, category or people segment, and drill into departments, source documents and coverage gaps.
1,371 Commonwealth entities and 21,577 entity-operation pairs, split into Core (what each agency exists to do) and Supporting (the back-office every agency runs). Nine Core archetypes — submission-to-decision, licence cycle, grant assessment, benefit determination, investigation, shared services, provider panels, federation oversight, whole-of-government coordination — plus the ten universal back-office ops and ranked innovation targets.
Measuring the gap between citizen expectations and government delivery across digital services, AI adoption, cyber security, and service innovation — covering federal and all 8 state/territory jurisdictions.
Mapping the state of AI across Australian government — adoption rates, public trust, regulation, workforce capability, healthcare AI, state programs, and international benchmarks. The defining finding: government is racing ahead while public trust is at rock bottom.
The first comprehensive look at AI deployment across Australian local government. NSW Audit Office findings (90 of 128 councils running AI; only 11% with strategy), 10 verified council case studies, 15 international examples across 5 continents, and a ranked playbook for what councils should do before the mandatory AI framework lands 30 June 2026.
Measuring how Australians experience government services — satisfaction, ease, trust, and the gap between world-class strategy and ground-level delivery across state portals, federal services, digital standards, and omnichannel channels.
Centring the lived experiences of Australian citizens across 8 policy areas — cost of living, housing, healthcare, aged care, NDIS, education, Centrelink, and government trust. Over 40 direct citizen voices revealing the gap between announcements and reality.
March 2026
How citizens and businesses experience submitting data to government — examining the ATO, Services Australia, ASIC, Home Affairs, and state equivalents across all 8 jurisdictions.
2,281
Entities Tracked
Federal, state & territory bodies in YourGov128
Council Profiles
All 128 NSW LGAs with strategy + procurement intel19,375
Commentary Items
Across 10 featured departments67% of citizens report frustration with government form complexity
Average form completion time: 47 minutes (up from 32 minutes in 2024)
myTax achieves 94% completion rate — the gold standard
3 governance patterns identified: Digital Transformation, Forms Burden, Cross-Agency Coordination
International comparison: Estonia's 'once-only' principle saves citizens 820 hours annually
Examining the gap between metro and regional healthcare delivery across all jurisdictions.
Archived report · February 2026A deep dive into visa processing times, citizenship ceremonies, and border operations.
Archived report · January 2026Assessing the quality of disability service providers and NDIA oversight effectiveness.
Archived report · December 2025