ABS Treasury portfolio
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Collects and publishes Australia's official statistics, including the Census, the labour force survey and the national accounts.
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Latest releases
All 25 releases from ABS, with filters-
ABS Released
Documents relating to the testing and development of the 2026 Census religion question
No summary: no document text could be extracted
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ABS Released
The Australian Bureau of Statistics' most recent version of the internal Artificial Intelligence (AI) Use Case Register or equivalent document that records in-scope use cases
This release is an extract from the ABS internal AI Use Case Register, a corrupted and largely unreadable table of entries with a legend of risk levels (Low, Medium, High), technology types (Generative AI, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision) and…
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ABS Released
Documents relating to correspondence between the ABS and representatives of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, or any other Catholic Church representative, during the period of March-May 2024
The release comprises email correspondence between the ABS 2026 Census Content Development team and representatives of religious organisations, March to May 2024, concerning the proposed religious affiliation question for the 2026 Census. In March 2024 the ABS proposed testing a…
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ABS Released
Documents held by the Australian Bureau of Statistics concerning person-level record linkage in the Multi-Agency Data Integration Project (MADIP) / the ABS "Person Linkage Spine," which integrates…
The release comprises meeting minutes from the Data Integration Oversight Forum (November 2025, June 2024 and others), Methodology Design Committee minutes and agendas (December 2024), a June 2024 presentation titled "Introducing Splink", a Methodology Design Committee paper…
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ABS Released
Documents relating to correspondence between the ABS and Senator Dean Smith on the topic of the Census between 1 June 2026 and 6 August 2026
This FOI release comprises internal ABS email chains, a letter of 5 August 2026 from Senator Dean Smith to Australian Statistician Dr David Gruen, and the ABS response dated 7 August 2026. Senator Smith raised concerns about the "Census – Not religious? Mark no religion"…
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ABS Released
Documents relating to international travel undertaken by ABS employees during the 2025–26 financial year
The release is a single register of international travel by ABS employees for the 2025–26 financial year, presented as an attachment listing destination, departure and return dates, class of travel, classification (EXEC, SES-B, APS and Australian Statistician), purpose and the…
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ABS Released
Documents relating to roles classified as core work under the Strategic Commissioning Framework in 2024-25 and 2025-26
This FOI release concerns the ABS's reporting under the APS Strategic Commissioning Framework for 2024-25 and 2025-26. It includes a June 2024 executive brief from the Legislative Compliance and Parliamentary Branch to the Acting Australian Statistician, seeking approval of an…
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ABS Released
Documents relating to Working from Home
The release comprises extracts from the ABS Manual of Personnel Management (MPM-01, chapter 10, section 01, version 2025/01, last updated 8 April 2025) and related teleworking material, including the "Teleworking in the ABS" guideline, the Flexible Working Arrangements FAQ, an…
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ABS Released
Documents relating to contractor engagement
This FOI release contains an extract from the ABS financial delegations instrument signed by Australian Statistician Dr David Gruen on 19 December 2024 under section 110 of the PGPA Act. Attachment B sets out delegated powers for approving commitments of relevant money and…
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ABS Released
Documents regarding ABS locker allocations
The release contains three short documents about ABS locker allocation and building induction. The first is an internal email dated 19 March 2026 from the Corporate Support Unit forwarding an ABS House Induction Checklist (extended version 3), used to induct new starters and…
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ABS Released
Documents regarding approval for publication or public release of the Guide
The release comprises an email chain from August 2025 and the draft user guide for the Whole-of-Australian-Government (WoAG) Occupation Coding Service, a machine-learning tool developed by the ABS Business Register and Statistical Standards Branch. The emails show a Stakeholder…
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ABS Released
Documents regarding organisational structure and team governance
The release contains two short documents: a one-page attachment titled "Census and WoAG Coding Capability Project" (updated 3 October 2024), whose content is an image and not extracted, and a Request for Quote for a contract technical writer. The RFQ concerns the ABS machine…
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ABS Released
Document regarding invoices and correspondence with ACON and Pride in Diversity
No summary: no document text could be extracted
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ABS Released
Document regarding The Coding Capability Service User Guide
The release is the June 2025 user guide for the ABS Occupation Coding Service, a Whole-of-Australian-Government API that automatically assigns standard occupation classification codes (ANZSCO) to free-text occupation and task descriptions. It uses hierarchical support vector…
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ABS Released
Information regarding The Coding Capability Service User Guide
The released document is the user guide for the Whole-of-Australian-Government (WoAG) Occupation Coding Service, version as at 22 October 2025 (go-live), originally released 30 June 2025. It is a technical API manual for software developers, covering registration, token-based…
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ABS Released
Briefs specific to Labor's commitment to expand data collection, with an emphasis on expanding ethnicity data and associated health metrics
The release contains a single ABS brief (MB23-000004, dated May 2023) to the Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury, marked for information. It covers ABS engagement with the Department of Home Affairs on the "Government that Works for Multicultural…
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ABS Released
Correspondence with David Gruen regarding overseas arrivals and departures
This FOI release comprises internal ABS emails, media materials and correspondence concerning the Overseas Arrivals and Departures (OAD) series and its relationship to Net Overseas Migration (NOM), released in response to a request for correspondence with Minister Andrew Leigh's…
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ABS Released
Documents relating to the maintenance of plants, flowers and other decorative greenery
No summary: no document text could be extracted
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ABS Released
Documents relating to a meeting between the Australian Statistician and OpenAI
The release contains email correspondence from June 2025 about an invitation to a private dinner in Canberra on 30 June 2025, hosted by OpenAI and featuring Dr Aaron "Ronnie" Chatterji, OpenAI's Chief Economist. The invitation, sent to Australian Statistician Dr David Gruen by…
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ABS Released
Documents relating to correspondence in relation to overseas arrivals and departures
The release contains two short sets of correspondence concerning ABS overseas arrivals and departures data. The first is a June exchange in which an external party asked for a contact responsible for overseas arrivals and departures ahead of a media release, with the ABS…