The national AI — owned by the government, free for every Australian, trained on Australian data, run on Australian compute.
One of the six doors of The People’s Portal — the DAA’s key policy. One site, one login: everything your government knows, spends and decides, across local, state and federal.
The data feeds. Agriculture · mining and resources · manufacturing · energy · water · environment and land · mapping and spatial · health · education and training · regulation and compliance · law · science and research · transport · construction and trades · justice and public safety. Every field where the nation holds data, published as a live feed and free to use. The list grows; it is not fixed.
Australia already has the policy — open by default, with more than thirty thousand datasets on data.gov.au, classified under the ISO 19115 categories that ANZLIC adopted so that every jurisdiction speaks the same language. What is missing is delivery: a catalogue nobody can use, updated when an agency gets around to it, in whatever format it chose. The DAA keeps the existing classification and adds what it lacks — a live feed with a fixed update cadence, one format standard, versioning, and an open API.
AI assistance. Ask in plain language and get an answer drawn from those feeds, with the record it came from cited. In any language. Help with any form, licence, application or obligation — the law translated, a speech summarised, an entitlement explained.
Search. Everything on the portal, searchable directly. Not everyone wants an AI between them and the record, and an answer you cannot check for yourself is not transparency.
It is also what joins the three levels of government. A council running a twenty-year-old rates system does not have to replace it or re-key its records. AusLLM reads what that system already produces and maps it to the national standard — formats reconciled, fields matched, terminology translated, gaps flagged for a human to confirm. The integration work that used to be a multi-year IT project per agency becomes a mapping the national AI performs once and maintains.
Who uses it. Not only citizens. Business — from a sole trader checking an obligation to a miner modelling a tenement. Government itself, since most duplication is agencies unable to read each other. And researchers, journalists and builders working through the open API, which is what makes the transparency checkable rather than merely asserted.
Sovereign by design. Australian data, Australian compute, open source code, owned permanently and constitutionally protected from sale. Australians currently pay foreign companies for AI; this puts a sovereign one in every pocket at no charge. Whether that is one model or fifty is an engineering decision that will change with the technology — deliberately not specified here. The architecture will change; the access commitment does not.
The rules for AI — AusLLM’s own operation and AI in the wider economy — are set out in AI Governance. The wider national AI programme sits with the Future department in AI & The Future.