Australian leaders rely on data, analysis and insight to make the decisions that shape our nation
The biggest challenges of our time – the shifting pressures on our health systems, climate change, public safety and aging populations – will be addressed more effectively when knowledge can be shared without delay across organisations, geographic boundaries and political jurisdictions.
Recent crises such as COVID-19 have demonstrated that establishing the correct infrastructure to facilitate this data-sharing should be a national priority. Everything happens somewhere – and in a country the size of Australia, every decision requires geographic thinking.
Establishing a National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) would serve to consolidate crucial information across organisational boundaries and allow for coordinated national responses to crises.
