Four native-title Traditional Owner corporations across 6.8 million ha of the North Kimberley run early dry-season savanna-burning carbon projects that have avoided …
Wyndham, Australia
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 4%73/100
Aboriginal-owned carbon project in western Arnhem Land: Traditional Owners apply strategic early dry-season burning over 28,000 km2 to reduce late-season wildfires, earning …
Australia's Digital Transformation Agency made inclusive design mandatory across federal digital services from January 2025, requiring five criteria — from embracing diversity …
Canberra, Australia
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 55%72/100
UniQuest, UQ's commercialisation company since 1984, has produced 360+ US patents and 130+ start-ups (Gardasil, Spinifex, Inflazome); in July 2025 Sanofi agreed …
Australia's national science agency runs a research-commercialisation accelerator that has graduated 80+ deep-tech spin-out companies and helped alumni secure over AUD 800 …
Canberra, Australia
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 50%67/100
A secure, department-built generative-AI assistant helps NSW's ~2,200 public schools draft lesson materials and differentiated resources; scaled statewide by 2025, though all …
Sydney, Australia
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 50%67/100
Australia's largest university-anchored innovation precinct, opened 2021 by the University of Melbourne and Lendlease. 3,000+ knowledge workers on campus; 240+ resident startups …
Melbourne, Australia
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 50%67/100
Australia's dedicated space-tech and deep-innovation district, repurposed from the former Royal Adelaide Hospital (7 ha). By early 2025: 1,700+ people from 160+ …
Victoria's 'Orange Door' family-violence hubs, mandated by a 2016 Royal Commission, opened understaffed in 2018 and were audited as failing to coordinate …
Melbourne, Australia
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 63%62/100
UniQuest, University of Queensland's tech-transfer firm since 1984, licensed the Gardasil HPV-vaccine IP and creates spin-outs. Audited UQ accounts confirm rising Gardasil …
Victoria's Study Melbourne office has funded 178 student-wellbeing and employability projects reaching 238,000+ international students since 2015, inside a sector that generated …
Since Circular DCS-2024-04, NSW agencies must apply a 16-question AI Assessment Framework, with high-risk systems going to an AI Review Committee. An …
Australia's national auditor found 8 AI-enabled 'prompted billing' Medicare fraud cases worth A$5.2 million that Services Australia and DHDA knew about for …
Canberra, Australia
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 46%60/100
Services Australia and Capgemini built an OCR/NLP engine that classifies more than 25,000 citizen-submitted documents a day with over 95% accuracy, cutting …
Canberra, Australia
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 14%60/100