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Jun 2025
National Artificial Intelligence Centre
AI adoption in Australian businesses for 2024 Q4
Small and medium Australian businesses continue to adopt artificial intelligence into their work according to the new AI Adoption Tracker.
May 2025
We’re at Osaka World Expo 2025 to showcase innovative Australian science and tech
We’re sharing our science and technology with the world to create more opportunities for Australian industry.
May 2025
National Measurement Institute
NMI celebrates 150 years of the Metre Convention
The National Measurement Institute (NMI) is celebrating World Metrology Day and the 150th anniversary of the Metre Convention.
Mar 2025
Gas supply and demand outlook for 2025 quarter 3
The Australian Government will not activate the Australian Domestic Gas Security Mechanism (ADGSM) for the July to September 2025 quarter.
Mar 2025
Prehistoric rock, Indigenous storytelling and oceanography activities feature at National Science Week 2025
Australia’s biggest annual celebration of science takes place from 9-17 August. We’re funding 31 community science events with $515,000 in grants.
Mar 2025
Major Projects Facilitation Agency
New major projects will help achieve net zero by 2050
Major Project Status awarded to Sunlands Eyre Peninsula Graphite Hub, Sunrise Battery Materials Complex Project, and Western Green Energy Hub.
Mar 2025
Announcing the 2025–26 March Budget
The 2025–26 Budget includes measures to secure Australian industry, science and resources.
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18 September 2020
Don’t reinvent the hoop
In government we ask people to jump through lots of hoops. We learnt how some of these were thrown away using APIs.
4 September 2020
X-ray vision: an APS world-first innovation
A team at the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment looked outside their own industry for inspiration. The result? A world-first innovation to detect goods that may harbour pests and diseases.
11 August 2020
Human Centred Design resources go online
We’re currently unable to offer the BizLab Academy’s Human Centred Design 1.01 training, so we’ve made our resources available for public servants.
5 August 2020
And the Public Sector Innovation Awards winners are…
The Public Sector Innovation Awards always showcase different ways of doing things, but this year that’s more important than ever.
15 July 2020
Drawing out insights… with visual scribing
Do you need to help people understand something complex in a short amount of time? Do you have a pen? Try visual scribing!
22 June 2020
Innovation Month: showcasing the creativity of the public sector
The APS Innovation Month is back in July. We’re showcasing and celebrating creativity, thinking differently and trying new approaches in government.
16 June 2020
A simple scale
How do you train a massive number of people to respond to a massive crisis — really quickly? We spoke to Services Australia to find out.
2 June 2020
‘Innovation capital’ is the new gold
IPAA ACT has been building ‘innovation capital’ for some time. It’s the reason they’ve been able to successfully pivot their entire event series so quickly during this pandemic period.
20 May 2020
Nice to have or need to have
Researchers at the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment took advantage of a freebie to test a new interview method. It busted their assumptions wide open.
6 May 2020
Together apart
Being thrust into remote working has stimulated some creative ways to keep teams sociable, stretchy and motivated. We’ve tracked down some practitioners to find out what’s working.
22 April 2020
When the virtual out-performs in-person
How can you engage 90 people in an interactive, informal, online discussion about a serious issue? The Futures Team in our department gave it a go and got some surprising results.
8 April 2020
Remote workshop re-work
How do you facilitate a workshop when you can’t be in the same room? The BizLab team had to pivot quickly.