Data Strategy 2025–2027
A Commonwealth department's data strategy signals intent to expand AI and ML use in justice policy — worth noting as a pattern across the APS.
Key points
- Attorney-General's Department released its Data Strategy 2025–2027 covering four focus areas including AI and analytics.
- AI and machine learning are referenced as tools to improve evidence-based policy in the justice sector.
- AI is a secondary thread in a broader data governance strategy; not a focused AI governance document.
Summary
The Attorney-General's Department has published its Data Strategy 2025–2027, structured around four pillars: data literacy, analytical capability, Indigenous Data Sovereignty, and data sharing. AI and machine learning are explicitly named under analytical capability as tools to improve evidence-based policymaking, though the strategy is primarily a data governance document rather than a dedicated AI framework. The strategy also emphasises responsible data sharing and privacy protections, and commits to supporting implementation of the National Agreement on Closing the Gap.
Implications for Australian agencies
- Monitor Agencies developing their own data or AI strategies may want to note AGD's framing of AI within a broader data capability pillar as a pattern worth tracking across the APS.
Implications are AI-generated. Starting points, not advice.
"Data Strategy 2025–2027" Source: Attorney-General's Dept – Publications Published: 19 February 2025 URL: https://www.ag.gov.au/about-us/publications/data-strategy The Attorney-General's Department has published its Data Strategy 2025–2027, structured around four pillars: data literacy, analytical capability, Indigenous Data Sovereignty, and data sharing. AI and machine learning are explicitly named under analytical capability as tools to improve evidence-based policymaking, though the strategy is primarily a data governance document rather than a dedicated AI framework. The strategy also emphasises responsible data sharing and privacy protections, and commits to supporting implementation of the National Agreement on Closing the Gap. Implications for Australian agencies: - [Monitor] Agencies developing their own data or AI strategies may want to note AGD's framing of AI within a broader data capability pillar as a pattern worth tracking across the APS. Retrieved from SIMS, 18 May 2026.