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Greater accessibility to public data: The new Commonwealth Data Availability and Transparency Bill - Implications for NSW

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The Bill introduces a new public sector data sharing scheme, which could be a model for state and territory governments.

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Angela Flannery
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In 2016, the Productivity Commission was asked to undertake an Inquiry into public and private sector data availability and use. The recently introduced Data Availability and Transparency Bill 2020 is an important outcome from that Inquiry process. The Bill will provide for a new data sharing scheme for federal government data. If that scheme is successfully implemented, it could be used as a model by state and territory governments, including by the NSW government, to allow for a greater level of public sector data sharing.

The development of DATA

In the final week of the 2020 Parliamentary sitting year, the Australian Government introduced the aptly named Data Availability and Transparency Bill 2020 (which will be shortened to DATA if the Bill becomes law). The Bill is the culmination of an extensive inquiry and consultation process, which started with the Productivity Commission's (PC) Inquiry into Data Availability and Use which commenced in 2016 and was

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