Use Case

• Australian Electoral Commission

  Summary 

  The role of the Australian Electoral Commission is to deliver the franchise: that is, an Australian citizen's right to vote, as established by the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918. The AEC is responsible for conducting federal elections and referendums and maintaining the Commonwealth electoral roll.

  AEC Key Outcome: Maintain an impartial and independent electoral system for eligible voters through active electoral roll management, efficient delivery of polling services and targeted education and public awareness programs.

  Date 

  Thursday, 16 February, 2017

  Agency/Working Group or Committee 

  Australian Electorial Commission

  Activity Diagram 

  Federal Electoral Boundaries use case v1.0.pdf

  Benefit Realised 

  The IT Strategic Plan’s objectives are derived from the AEC’s five agency directions. The objectives are: 1. improve election logistics 2. improve election transparency 3. improve stakeholder experience 4. be ready 5. reduce risk 6. improve election staff effectiveness, and maintain capability. Location information provides a transparent, efficient and evidence base underpinning the IT strategic plans objectives.

• Australian Bureau of Statistics

  Summary 

  The Australian Bureau of Statistics is Australia's official statistical organisation. We assist and encourage informed decision-making, research and discussion within governments and the community, by leading a high quality, objective and responsive national statistical service.

  The principal legislation determining the functions and responsibilities of the Australian Bureau of Statistics are the Australian Bureau of Statistics Act 1975 and the Census and Statistics Act 1905.

  Date 

  Thursday, 16 February, 2017

  Agency/Working Group or Committee 

  Australian Bureau of Statistics

  Activity Diagram 

  ASGS_2016_Simplified_Structure_and_Summary.pdf

  Benefit Realised 

  The ABS recognises that it is operating in a dynamic environment and will undergo major transformation to strategically improve the national statistical infrastructure. Locational data will be an important component of future processes and systems that integrate administrative, transactional and traditional Census and Survey data to fulfil the future statistical requirements of the Australian Community. For example an accurately geocoded Address and Business Register will be required for the design and creation of future ABS Census and Survey frames. A nationally accurate, consistent and maintained cadastral database is required for the design of statistical area classifications such as the Australian Statistical Geography Standard requires. The geocoding to the ASGS of the Census of Population and Housing requires the accurate location of every Australian dwelling to create statistics for local areas. Statistical data linkage of administrative data sets will be an important component of a future statistical infrastructure. Locational data is commonly employed as a linkage variable.

• Environmental Offsets: Department of Environment

  Summary 

  The Department of Environment and Energy administers the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 Environmental Offsets Policy October 2012

  ‘Environmental offsets’ are broadly understood to mean actions taken by developers to compensate for the adverse impacts of their developments. The Australian Government is increasingly considering environmental offsets as part of its process of taking a decision on whether to approve proposed actions under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act). 

  Date 

  Thursday, 16 February, 2017

  Information Flow 

  https://www.environment.gov.au/system/files/resources/12630bb4-2c10-4c8e-815f-2d7862bf87e7/files/offsets-policy_2.pdf

  Benefit Realised 

  The advantage of using cadastre and property based datasets enables a consistent source of truth for displaying and administering Environmental offsets on a national scale.

• The National Exposure Information System (NEXIS)

  Summary 

  The National Exposure Information System is a unique capability developed by Geoscience Australia to estimate the number, cost and characteristics of the people, buildings and infrastructure potentially impacted by a man-made or natural event.
  http://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/hazards/risk-impact/nexis  

  Date 

  Thursday, 16 February, 2017

  Version 

  1.00

  Associated Stakeholder or System 

  Geoscience Australia

  Benefit Realised 

  NEXIS services a number of clients including the insurance sector. This benefit is focusing on the Crisis Coordination Centre.

  Since 2012, GA has been providing spatial support and advice to the Crisis Coordination Centre (CCC) within Emergency Management Australia (EMA) as part of our collaboration with the Attorney-General’s Department.

  A key information requirement identified by EMA was the need to quickly understand what is in an event area. To address this requirement GA designed the Exposure Report which greatly simplifies the interpretation of exposure information for timely emergency response and recovery decision-making.

  The Exposure Report is generated by extracting the relevant attributes from NEXIS such as population and building estimates, agricultural commodities and building costs, and infrastructure counts in the potentially threatened area. This automated process quickly presents the required information in a clear and easily accessible report detailing estimates of what exists in the event area.

  By improving the timeliness and accuracy of information used by the CCC, GA has enhanced the government’s ability to respond to disaster and activate appropriate financial assistance for recovery.

• Emergency Management Australia

  Summary 

  The Crisis Coordination Centre (EMA) is responsible for providing whole-of-government situational awareness to inform national decision-making during a crisis. The centre:

  • Centralises and coordinates information across the Australian Government, states and territories during a crisis in Australia
  • Coordinates Australian Government physical and financial assistance for disaster relief - it is responsible for managing national disaster recovery payments and ensuring states and territory governments, individuals, businesses and primary producers impacted by disasters are well supported through the Commonwealths relief and recovery programs
  • Supports the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade during major emergencies and events overseas
  • Maintains Australian Government response plans and arrangements for responding to domestic and international incidents
     

  Date 

  Thursday, 16 February, 2017

  Agency/Working Group or Committee 

  Emergency Management Australia

  Associated Stakeholder or System 

  Attorney-General's Department

  Benefit Realised 

  Baseline data - geographic datasets to support situational awareness and analysis for response and recovery.

  • NEXIS data - for an EMA Exposure Report Product – This is a profile of what is in the footprint of an event (footprint could be hazard or LGA) which calls upon useful "baseline data" as social and economic indicators. This product would be fed into EMA's "National Impact Assessment Model (NIAM)" that needs baseline data to make an assessment of an event’s severity.
  • "Footprints" of a disaster event (observed for flood and bushfire or modelled if observed isn't available) - from states/territories or satellite, or modelled. This would be used to refine the application of the NIAM (benefits in constraining assistance to area impacted than LGA impacted).
  • They need to make an impact and damage assessment for NDRRA – to estimate the impact of an event’s overall initial cost and then assess the level of govt financial assistance (based on infrastructure damage and community impact, or benchmark cost)
  • To know that mitigation efforts and spending are infact reducing the recovery costs (narrow the nexus between mitigation and recovery). Need to determine the cost benefit analysis of mitigation measures and hotspots for mitigation efforts.
• Addressing and the Australian Business Register

  Summary 

  The Australian Business Register (ABR) is a whole-of-government program that works collaboratively across government and industry to store details about businesses and organisations when they register for an Australian business number. The ABR is recognised nationally as a valuable asset and is used by the community and government daily to identify and verify business information and plan for infrastructure and service delivery.

  Problem: Addresses need to be validated for internal service portals and when new registrations are created online.

  Solution: Integrate the openly available G-NAF into the online process to use single-line address validation to verify addresses entered in real time. A 3rd party provided address validation service is used.

  Date 

  Thursday, 30 March, 2017

  Contact 

  Australian Taxation Office

  Version 

  1.00

  Benefit Realised 

  As a result of the process, a high proportion (92%) of the 7+ million existing ABNs on the ABR were verified and geocoded and ABN registrations can now be processed as they are submitted online.

• Mastersoft Group: Open G-NAF and Address validation

  Summary 

  Mastersoft Group provides Australian and New Zealand address validation in the cloud through its Harmony Hosted subscription service.

  Problem: Human error can occur when manually entering addresses, resulting in a poor customer experience and incorrect and false addresses being added to databases. This impedes smooth business practices, especially with high volume customer touch points and where are accurate addresses are crucial to business success.

  Solution: Mastersoft’s Harmony Hosted service provides access to the openly available G-NAF, Australia Post’s Postal Address File and a range of New Zealand Address datasets, allowing users to search addresses from multiple datasets in a single search.

  Date 

  Thursday, 30 March, 2017

  Contact 

  Mastersoft Group

  Benefit Realised 

  Harmony Hosted address validation makes it easier for customers and employees to complete forms with accurate information, saving time, money and frustration.

  It also enables enterprises to understand the spatial aspects of their customer locations.

• IAG Insurance Australia Group : Open G-NAF

  Summary 

  Using the openly available G-NAF, IAG has become the first insurer in Australia to release a national dataset containing a view of flood risk across Australia; to enable customers to assess their level of financial risk due to flooding.

  IAG has done this as the insurance industry is uniquely positioned to relate physical hazards to financial risk through its exposure and claims data.

  Problem: Insurance customers can underestimate their exposure to flood risks and not have appropriate insurance cover.

  Solution: The IAG Flood Risk Dataset can inform insurance choices based on risk probabilities. It uses a combination of IAG modelling, industry sourced data, and local and state government data.

  The risk is based on two factors, how severe the flooding is and how often the property is likely to be flooded. The High, Medium and Low risk bands describe the financial risk.

  This information is best used to identify regions where residential communities are exposed to flooding. The dataset assesses flood risk for 88% of all addresses nationally.

  Date 

  Thursday, 30 March, 2017

  Contact 

  Insurance Australia Group

  Benefit Realised 

  IAG is informing the general public on flood risk at their property and their surrounding communities by:

  • improving awareness of flood risk to property owners and communities;
  • improving the communication of risk and coordination between the general public, government agencies and industry;
  • inviting new innovations in the communication and visualisation of risk; and
  • increasing community resilience by ensuring customers have appropriate levels of insurance.
• Community Insight Australia: Open public data mapping tool

  Summary 

  Community Insight Australia is a social enterprise organisation that has developed a web-based mapping tool, enabling access to openly available public data in a centralised, user friendly way.

  Problem: Community organisations and frontline services need to allocate scarce resources, including services, staff and funds, to areas of greatest need.

  Solution: The Community Insight Australia tool combines up-to-date datasets of social indicators with accurate addressing information to enable visualisation of areas of high need. This helps with the social profiling of a community. The tool creates easy to read automated reports with each parameter explained visually through maps and dashboards for easy benchmarking and comparisons.

  Date 

  Thursday, 30 March, 2017

  Contact 

  Community Insight Australia

  Benefit Realised 

  The mapping tool allows users to analyse social indicators specific to a location, such as crime, health, economy, education and skills.  This information helps to prioritise community investment and target the design and delivery of services across Australia to areas of greatest need.