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Government Leaders Delivering Public Value Through AI
Dec 10, 2025
ADAPT’s Government Edge Survey 2025 highlights Australian agencies’ AI ambitions, from strategy and GenAI pilots to cloud expansion and funding barriers.
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Overview:
ADAPT’s Government Edge Survey (Oct 2025), reveals that the top goal of Australian government leaders is to develop an AI strategy and roadmap.
The top initiative priority is to pilot and adopt generative AI, while the top investment priority is deploying AI agents, even as agencies plan to double their public cloud footprint despite the federal government still keeping nearly half of its workloads in-house. The main barrier to executing AI and modernisation efforts remains a lack of funding and resources.
Key takeaways:
The key areas of focus are:
- Strong alignment across AI goals, initiatives, and investments
- Public cloud expansion, despite lagging behind other sectors
- Insufficient funding/resources are holding back government efforts on AI