Treasury
Australian Bureau of Statistics
| Project name | DCA 2024 | DCA 2025 | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Data Timely Insights (BDTI) Phase 2 | Medium-High | Medium | Active | 224.3 | 132.4 | 30 Jun 2030 | BDTI Phase 2 provides a pathway off legacy ICT systems, ensuring the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) maximises the reuse of new tools and lessons across the organisation. The project involves rebuilding and securing the Consumer Price Index (CPI) ICT system, delivering a complete monthly measure of the CPI, building the business statistics production process in the cloud, replacing the legacy Business Register with an expanded Business Characteristics Asset in the cloud, and industrialising the ABS cloud environment. |
| Project name | DCA 2024 | DCA 2025 | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Census of Population and Housing | Medium-High | Active | 726.5 | 164.4 | 30 Dec 2027 | The 2026 Census of Population and Housing will be Australia’s 19th national Census. The Census and Statistics Act 1905 (Part II, S8) requires the ABS to conduct a Census every 5 years. The Census provides the base for official counts of Australians and the dwellings in which they live. It is a snapshot of the economic, social and cultural make-up of the nation, and tells the story of how Australia is changing over time. |
| Project name | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Modernising ABS Operations: Essential Investments - Data Acquisition Reform | Closed | 17.5 | 11.0 | 31 Dec 2024 | The ABS’s Data Acquisition Modernisation program
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Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
| Project name | DCA 2024 | DCA 2025 | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Anti-Scam Centre | Not reported | Medium | Active | 80.1 | 43.2 | 31 Jul 2026 | The NASC is a world-leading initiative to make Australia the hardest country for scammers to victimise citizens in. It will disincentivise scammers from targeting Australia and result in significantly less scam attempts. |
| Working Smarter Program (WSP) | Medium-High | Medium-High | Closed | 41.4 | 41.4 | 30 Jun 2024 | The investment will stabilise the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s ICT infrastructure to support the installation of fit-for-purpose business and corporate enabling applications and systems and introduce data analytics capabilities. |
Australian Prudential Regulation Authority
| Project name | DCA 2024 | DCA 2025 | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GUIDE Program | Medium-High | Active | 73.2 | 73.2 | 30 Jun 2028 | The Governance Uplift and Investment in Data Enablement (GUIDE) program is a multi-year strategic investment in Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) data capabilities and security position, including APRA’s supervision management system. By investing in data governance, security and infrastructure, the program aims to ensure that APRA can continue to effectively fulfil its mandate, mitigate risks and support the stability and resilience of the Australian financial system. |
Australian Securities and Investments Commission
| Project name | DCA 2024 | DCA 2025 | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Digital Transformation X (DTx) – under Stabilisation of ASIC Business Registers and Regulatory Systems | Medium-High | Active | 45.5 | 45.5 | 30 Jun 2028 | The DTx Cyber Security Initiative will enhance existing cyber capabilities to secure the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) existing and future networks, systems and data. The program will deliver a range of capabilities that secure ASIC regulatory systems and uplift maturity against the Essential 8. | |
| RegistryConnect Program | Medium-High | Active | 154.7 | 106.1 | 31 Dec 2029 | ASIC’s RegistryConnect Program will deliver reliable, secure, trusted, and efficient registry services to support the economy for the benefit of all Australians. The program’s objectives include: stabilising Registry technology to increase the security, reliability, and performance of its registers; modernising and uplifting the registers, user channels and interfaces; improving the quality and integrity of registry data; achieve policy and law reform; and developing enduring capabilities. |
| Project name | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fighting Investment Scams | Closed | 17.6 | 1.5 | 30 Sep 2024 | The Fighting Investment Scams project aims to protect Australian consumers from investment scams by proactively taking down investment scam and phishing websites. The project covers the ongoing use of a website takedown service to remove a variety of investment scams. |
Australian Taxation Office
| Project name | DCA 2024 | DCA 2025 | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Counter Fraud Program | Medium-High | Active | 187.0 | 68.4 | 30 Jun 2028 | The Counter Fraud Program will strengthen Australian Taxation Office (ATO) ability to prevent, detect, contain, and bring consequence to fraud and financial crime against the tax and superannuation systems. | |
| Modernising ATO IT Systems (MATOS) Program | Medium | High | Closed | 42.1 | 30.8 | 30 Jun 2024 | The Modernising ATO IT Systems (MATOS) Program first tranche, Insights and Intelligence will modernise the ATO’s strategic IT application platform as the first step to unlock the full data potential of the ATO by purposefully leveraging data, analytics and automation to maximise the long-term sustainable economic value to Australia from the tax and superannuation system. |
| Payday Super - Superannuation Guarantee Reform (Unpaid Super) | Not reported | Low | Active | 352.3 | 262.2 | 30 Jun 2028 | The Payday Super project will address the systemic issue of unpaid and underpaid super guarantee by employers by moving the obligation to pay from a quarterly to payday cycle. The ATO will be funded to build and improve data matching capabilities to match employers’ payroll data with super contribution data, providing the ATO with near real-time visibility as to whether employers have met their obligations. The government will also redesign the super guarantee legislation in line with the move to payday super. Penalties and charges will reflect the serious nature of unpaid or underpaid super guarantee and will be recalibrated to encourage prompt rectification of non-payment with scalable consequences to deter severe or repeated non-compliance. |
| Project name | DCA 2024 | DCA 2025 | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Better Targeted Superannuation Concessions | Not reported | Medium-High | Active | 45.5 | 16.9 | 30 Jun 2027 | The Better Targeted Superannuation Concessions measure was announced by the Australian Government on 28 February 2023, with further authority and detail provided in the 2023–24 Budget. This project is enabling the delivery of this measure with first assessments to be issued in the first half of the 2026–27 financial year. |
| Implementation Of A Global Minimum Tax And A Domestic Minimum Tax (Pillar 2) | Medium | Medium | Active | 110.5 | 33.6 | 30 Jun 2027 | On 8 October 2021, Australia, as a member of the Inclusive Framework, agreed along with more than 130 other jurisdictions, to a Statement that set out the framework for Pillar 2 (the Global Anti-Base Erosion [GloBE] Model Rules). Australia is an OECD member, and as a member of the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting, and active member of the Forum on Tax Administration and implementing the Pillar 2 will further strengthen Australia’s ability to address multinational tax avoidance. The government investment provides the ATO with the means to ensure resources are available for the ICT and data requirements to implement and administer this measure, as well as ensuring a strong ongoing compliance, advice and education focus to support the in-scope population. At the time of preparing this report, this project is subject to the escalation protocols set out in the Assurance Framework for Digital and ICT-enabled Projects. These protocols are designed to support agencies in the timely resolution of delivery challenges. |
| Project name | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cyber Security Program (previously known as Building Cyber Resilience) | Active | 108.1 | 108.1 | 31 Dec 2026 | The Program focuses on uplifting Essential 8 to Maturity Level 2, providing fit for purpose security services to protect the ATO’s digital ecosystem. The Program’s outcomes will increase the ATO’s cyber maturity through the delivery of enhanced cyber capabilities and technologies. |
Department of the Treasury
| Project name | DCA 2024 | DCA 2025 | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foreign Investment Digital Transformation (FIDT) | Medium | Medium | Active | 93.6 | 66.1 | 30 Jun 2025 | The Treasury is undertaking a transformation program to support the Government’s foreign investment framework and replace the current Foreign Investment Management System to deliver a fully functional end-to-end case management system, a register of foreign ownership of Australian assets and improved analytics capability. At the time of preparing this report, this project is subject to the escalation protocols set out in the Assurance Framework for Digital and ICT-enabled Projects. These protocols are designed to support agencies in the timely resolution of delivery challenges. |
| Project name | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Payment Times Reporting Scheme (PTRS) – ICT Infrastructure rebuild | Active | 8.9 | 8.9 | 31 Dec 2025 | This system rebuild supports improved reporting following reforms to the Payment Times Reporting Scheme. A modern portal will streamline and reduce the regulatory burden of reporting and the public can search and interrogate payment times information, including the best and worst paying large businesses using new dashboards. Increasing the transparency of large businesses’ payment performance towards their small business suppliers can incentivise fairer and faster payments to small business. |
Disclaimer
Certain numbers in this report have been rounded to one decimal place. Due to rounding, some totals may not correspond with the sum of the separate figures.