How the Australian Government talks about its use of AI

Since February 2025, non-corporate Commonwealth entities must publish AI transparency statements — 95 of 96 have; the one still to publish is newly created: NEPA (1 July 2026). This tracker scrapes them every day and records every change in git, then reads each change: what an agency now says it does with AI, what it has promised, and what it no longer says.

Each square is one agency, shaded by how much of its statement is its own words (bespoke) versus shared template language (borrowed). Hover or tap one to read it.

bespoke borrowed not yet outside mandateWhat is bespoke?

119changes of substance tracked since 11 Nov 2025, across 121 published statements from the 135 Australian Government bodies we track (428 captures in all).

Published
121 of 135
Not yet
1
Publication voluntary
7
Carved out
6
Most changed
CGC · 5 changes
Most templated
AUASB · 11% bespoke

What’s changed

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Recorded changes by month since tracking began: the deeper the ochre, the more the change amounted to. First-time captures aren’t counted — only statements actually changing. On the timeline, this chart is a filter.

Recorded changes per month, stacked by tierMay 2026: 74 changes — 10 of substance, 0 revisions, 11 cosmetic, 53 scrape noise was the busiest month. Figures in the table below.November 2025 — changes of substance: 1November 2025 — cosmetic edits: 1November 2025 — scrape noise: 38December 2025 — changes of substance: 5December 2025 — scrape noise: 3February 2026 — changes of substance: 20February 2026 — scrape noise: 8March 2026 — changes of substance: 18March 2026 — cosmetic edits: 5March 2026 — scrape noise: 7April 2026 — changes of substance: 17April 2026 — cosmetic edits: 6April 2026 — scrape noise: 6May 2026 — changes of substance: 10May 2026 — cosmetic edits: 11May 2026 — scrape noise: 53June 2026 — changes of substance: 22June 2026 — revisions, same substance: 2June 2026 — cosmetic edits: 6June 2026 — scrape noise: 5July 2026 — changes of substance: 9July 2026 — cosmetic edits: 5July 2026 — scrape noise: 3August 2026 — changes of substance: 14August 2026 — cosmetic edits: 7August 2026 — scrape noise: 8September 2026 — changes of substance: 3September 2026 — cosmetic edits: 6September 2026 — scrape noise: 8 050100 74 Nov 25Jan 26Sept 26
changes of substancerevisions, same substancecosmetic editsscrape noise
Figures
Monthchanges of substancerevisions, same substancecosmetic editsscrape noise
Nov 2510138
Dec 255003
Jan 260000
Feb 2620008
Mar 2618057
Apr 2617066
May 261001153
June 2622265
July 269053
Aug 2614078
Sept 263068
  • ASIC splits its combined accountable official/chief AI officer role between two different executives and logs the change in its history table.

    read by Claude Sonnet 5
  • PM&C discloses it has appointed an Accountable Official and Chief AI Officer, naming Justin Keefe as Accountable Official, and updates the statement date.

    read by Claude Sonnet 5
  • NACC discloses full Microsoft Copilot and public generative AI rollout, appoints governance roles including a Chief AI Officer, and adds new safeguards.

    read by Claude Sonnet 5

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