Documents regarding the Incoming Government Briefs prepared ahead of the 2025 election

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The release comprises the ABS brief for the incoming Government following the 2025 election, with an administration pack covering legislation, executive structure, ministerial engagement, statistical collections tabled in Parliament, data requests and contacts. The ABS reports 3,195 staff, a $522.7 million budget for 2024-25, and about 30 survey types. The brief highlights modernisation: a digital-first survey approach, replacing the Retail Business Survey with bank transactions data, replacing agriculture surveys with administrative and satellite data (cutting farmer reporting burden by 97%), and the Big Data, Timely Insights and Data Acquisition Modernisation programs ($97.9 million over four years). It describes integrated data assets PLIDA and BLADE, accessed by about 2,200 analysts in a secure environment. For the 2026 Census, it notes a new sexual orientation and gender topic for people aged 16 and over, with a prefer-not-to-say option, and an August 2025 field test of about 100,000 households. Much of the detail is redacted.