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Jul 2025 Major Projects Facilitation Agency

New clean energy and resource projects awarded major project status

Two new projects, one in silica mining and the other in carbon capture and storage, will boost Australia’s clean energy future.
Jul 2025

Clearer labelling for seafood in hospitality settings is here

Hospitality businesses can start labelling the origin of seafood dishes in line with new consumer labelling laws.
Jul 2025

Gas supply and demand outlook for 2025 quarter 4

The Australian Government will not activate the Australian Domestic Gas Security Mechanism (ADGSM) for the October to December 2025 quarter.
Jun 2025 Office of the Chief Economist

Australia’s resources and energy exports set to soften amid trade uncertainties

We have released updated forecasts for Australia’s commodity exports in the June 2025 edition of the Resources and energy quarterly (REQ).

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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.
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