The vehicle for reinvestment is the Public
Service Modernisation Fund (PSMF). The PSMF appeared for the first time in the 2016–17
Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO), with the provision of $20.4 million
over five years to the Australian War Memorial and the National Library of
Australia.[2]
The 2017–18 Budget outlines how, through two
cross-portfolio budget measures, the PSMF will fund a number of initiatives
expected to ‘deliver quality government services at lower cost and use leading technology
and collaborative approaches to address complex problems facing society’.[3]
The Department of Finance has carriage of some projects, and
a broader leadership role in public sector transformation.[5]
Details of specific PSMF expenditures are dispersed across portfolio budget
statements. This quick guide collocates information about PSMF-related
appropriations, including hyperlinks to relevant portfolio budget statements.
An earlier version of this quick guide was published in June
2017. This updated version includes some additional information that
has become available since June 2017.
Portfolio
and entity
|
PBS
T&I measure
$m
|
PBS
AS measure
$m
|
Reported in the CT
(emphasis in Bold has been added)
|
Agriculture
and Water Resources Portfolio
|
|
|
|
No
PSMF measures in the PBS.
|
–
|
–
|
Not
included.
|
Attorney-General’s
Portfolio
|
|
|
|
Attorney-General’s
Department
‘Funding of $0.725m will be provided in 2019–20’: PBS, pp. 14 and 16 note (b).
|
0.725
|
–
|
$0.7m
as part of cross-portfolio ‘Shared and Common Services - Funding to
support entities to transition to one of the six shared services hubs and for
hubs to improve their service delivery capability and enterprise resource
planning systems‘.
|
Australian
Federal Police
‘Funding of $0.725m will be provided in 2019–20’:
PBS, pp. 94 and 95 note (c).
|
0.725
|
–
|
$0.7m
as part of cross-portfolio ‘Shared and Common Services’ above.
|
Federal
Court of Australia
‘Funding of $14.007m will be
provided over three years’: PBS, p. 204 note (a).
|
–
|
14.007
|
$14.0m
for ‘New and integrated court technology: support the ongoing
sustainability of the entity, with funding for various digital and electronic
information management systems’.
|
Office
of the Director of Public Prosecutions
‘$1.994m will be provided over three years for departmental expenses and ...
$2.507m will be provided over two years for capital expenses’: PBS, p. 260 note (a) (Table 1.2).
|
–
|
Departmental
1.994
Capital
2.507
|
$4.5m
for ‘Legal practice business management system: Procure and implement
a new legal practice business management system’.
|
Communications
and the Arts Portfolio
|
|
|
|
Department
of Communications and the Arts
‘This measure
involves funding to be provided to the following National Collecting
Institutions (totalling $1.736 million in 2017-18; $2.912 million in 2018-19;
and $3.504 million in 2019-20): the Australian National Maritime Museum; the
National Film and Sound Archive; the National Gallery of Australia; the
National Museum of Australia; the National Portrait Gallery of Australia; and
Old Parliament House’: PBS, pp. 18 note (b).
|
–
|
8.152
|
$8.2m
for ‘National Collecting Institutions - Strategic financial assistance:
Support six national collecting institutions to restructure the delivery of core
programs and services to maximise efficiencies and future sustainability
(including the Australian National Maritime Museum, National Film and Sound
Archive, National Gallery, National Museum of Australia, National Portrait
Gallery and Museum of Australian Democracy)’.
|
Australian
National Maritime Museum
‘The
ANMM will receive funding of $6.290 million in 2017–18; $6.140 million in
2018–19; and $1.470 million in 2019–20’ for ‘Critical Capital Works’: PBS,
pp. 139 note (a) and 144.
|
–
|
13.900
|
$13.9m
for ‘Critical capital works: Fund critical capital works to enhance
public safety and access, better meet legislative obligations, preserve and
leverage new opportunities for self-generated commercial revenue, maintain
collections and to meet ongoing operational costs’.
|
National
Film and Sound Archive
‘The
NFSA will receive funding of $0.996 million in 2017–18;
$2.708 million in 2018–19; and $0.180 million in 2019–20’: PBS, p. 157 note (a).
|
–
|
3.884
|
$3.9m
for ‘Capital works: Undertake building works to ensure the NSFA's
premises are fit for purpose’.
|
National
Gallery of Australia
PSMF
support for the NGA is mentioned in the PBS (pp. 18 note (b)
and 32), but
no details are provided in the NGA statements (pp. 173–90)
|
–
|
Not
disclosed
|
The
NGA appears only in the context of National Collecting Institutions -
Strategic financial assistance (see above) and Cultural shared
services centre arrangements (see below).
|
National
Library of Australia
The
MYEFO of December 2016 provided ‘$16.4 million over four years from
2016–17 to the NLA for digitisation of material and upgrade of critical
infrastructure for its Trove digital information resource and to upgrade
other critical infrastructure’: MYEFO, p. 140.
|
–
|
16.400
|
$16.4m
for ‘Programs and Services: Digitisation of material and upgrade of
critical infrastructure for its Trove digital resource and to upgrade other
critical infrastructure’.
|
The PBS
for 2017–18 noted that $2.6 million ‘will be used for the digitisation of
library collection material and the upgrade of critical infrastructure’: PBS,
p. 196.
|
–
|
2.600
|
Not
included. It is possible that this $2.6 m is part of the $16.4m for ‘Programs
and Services’ discussed above.
|
National
Museum of Australia
‘The
NMA will receive funding of $2.667 million in 2017–18; $3.078 million in
2018–19; and $3.194 million in 2019–20’: PBS, p. 211 note (a).
|
–
|
8.939
|
$8.9m
for ‘Cultural shared services centre: Establish shared services
arrangements, such as back office operations for the National Gallery,
National Film and Sound Archive and Portrait Gallery’.
|
National
Portrait Gallery of Australia
PSMF
support for the NPGA is mentioned in the PBS (pp. 18 note (b)
and 32), but
no details are provided in the NPGA statements (pp. 223–40).
|
–
|
Not
disclosed
|
The
NGA appears only in the context of National Collecting Institutions -
Strategic financial assistance and Cultural shared services centre
(see above).
|
Old
Parliament House
‘OPH
will receive: operational funding of $1.889 million in 2017–18; $2.274
million in 2018–19; and $0.502 million in 2019–20; and capital funding of
$2.322 million in 2017–18; $3.226 million in 2018–19; and $3.429 million in
2019–20’: PBS, p 247 note (a).
|
–
|
Operational
4.665
Capital
8.977
|
$13.6m
for ‘Capital Works: Undertake building works to ensure OPH's premises
and critical equipment remain sustainable and fit for purpose’.
|
Defence Portfolio (including Veterans’ Affairs)
|
|
|
|
Department
of Veterans’ Affairs
In
2017–18, DVA has an increase in ‘expense’ funds of $4.269m and an increase in
capital funds of $0.743m: PBS, p. 30 note (c).
|
Expense
4.269
Capital
0.743
|
–
|
$5.0m
as part of cross-portfolio ‘Shared and Common Services’ above.
|
Australian
War Memorial
The
AWM will receive an increase in ‘expense’ funds of $0.748m in 2017–18,
$0.114m in 2018–19, and $0.114m in 2019–20; and an increase in capital funds
of $1.637m in 2017–18, $2.390m in 2018–19, and $1.733m in 2019–20: PBS, p. 97 note (a).
|
–
|
Expense
0.976
|
$6.7m
for ‘Organisation restructure and ICT systems: Upgrade the AWM's ICT
systems and support organisational restructuring to enhance sustainability’.
|
‘The
Memorial will conduct an organisational review and restructure [and] upgrade
and restructure the outdated and highly customised information, communication
and technology (ICT) systems underpinning the agency’s core capabilities’:
PBS, p. 94.
|
|
Capital
5.760
|
In
addition, the MYEFO provided $4.0m over four years from 2017–18 (including
$1.0m in 2020–21) to ‘ensure that the AWM can continue to deliver its core
activities’: MYEFO, p. 140.
|
–
|
4.000
|
$4.0m
for ‘Organisational Sustainability: Funding to ensure that the AWM can
continue to deliver its core activities under the Australian War Memorial Act’.
|
Education
and Training Portfolio
|
|
|
|
Department
of Education and Training
The ‘Shared
and Common Services’ project is not listed as a separate item in the PBS, but the
budget papers foreshadow shared ‘hubs’ to provide corporate services and to
deliver community and business grants: BP4, p. 3.
|
[0.700]
Not disclosed in PBS
|
–
|
$0.7m
as part of cross-portfolio ‘Shared and Common Services’ above.
|
As
part of the Data Integration Partnership of Australia (DIPA), $14.3m is
provided over three years for the National Education Evidence Base to ‘bring
together data on all phases of education—early childhood, schooling, VET and
higher education—to develop a nationally-consistent approach to understanding
student pathways’: PBS, p. 14.
|
14.300
|
–
|
$14.3m
for ‘Data Integration Partnership for Australia (DIPA) - National
Education Evidence Base (NEEB): Develop and implement a system that will
track an individual’s education progress, to enhance policy analysis through
evidence-based data integration’.
|
Australian
Skills Quality Authority
It
appears that PSMF measures are not disclosed as separate items in the PBS, but the
budget papers foreshadow shared ‘hubs’ to provide corporate services and to
deliver community and business grants: BP4, p. 3.
|
[0.600]
Not disclosed in PBS
|
–
|
$0.6m
as part of cross-portfolio ‘Shared and Common Services’ above.
|
Employment
Portfolio
|
|
|
|
No
PSMF measures in the PBS.
|
–
|
–
|
Not
included.
|
Environment
and Energy Portfolio
|
|
|
|
Department
of the Environment and Energy
‘This
measure includes funding of $0.7 million in 2019–20’: PBS, p. 27 note (f).
|
0.700
|
–
|
Not
included. It is possible that this measure is part of cross-portfolio ‘Shared
and Common Services’ above.
|
Bureau
of Meteorology
‘This
measure includes funding of $0.7 million in 2019–20’: PBS, p. 119 note (a).
|
0.700
|
–
|
$0.7m
as part of cross-portfolio ‘Shared and Common Services’ above.
|
Finance
Portfolio
|
|
|
|
Department
of Finance
For
the Transformation and Innovation (T&I) measure, ‘Finance will receive
funding of $51.5 million (including capital funding of $10.6 million) over
the forward estimates’: PBS, pp. 20 (note j)
and 37–38.
|
40.900
Capital
10.600
|
–
|
$25.5m
as part of cross-portfolio ‘Shared and Common Services’ above.
$11.0m
for ‘Data Integration Partnership for Australia (DIPA) – Secure
Information Sharing Capability (SISC): Develop and implement a secure
platform for the exchange of information between entities.’
$9.1m
as part of ‘Digital Records Management Platform: Develop a whole-of-government
digital records management solution to modernise the common function of
record-keeping across the APS’.
$5.9m
for ‘Budget Workflow System: Develop and implement a flexible and
integrated Budget workflow and decision tracking system to enable greater
automation and collaboration across the APS’.
|
For
the Agency Sustainability (AS) measure ‘Finance will receive funding of $3.3
million over the forward estimates’: PBS, p. 20 (note i).
|
–
|
3.300
|
$3.3m
as part of cross-portfolio ’Shared and Common Services: Support for some
small and medium entities to transition to a shared and common
services hub, to deliver efficiencies across government in the corporate
service landscape.
|
Australian
Electoral Commission
For the AS measure, ‘the AEC will receive funding of
$1.3 million over the forward estimates’: PBS, p. 73 (note a).
|
–
|
1.300
|
$1.3m
for ‘Organisational Design: Implement a new organisational design to
improve coordination, communication and capabilities within the entity’.
|
Foreign
Affairs and Trade Portfolio
|
|
|
|
Department
of Foreign Affairs and Trade
The PSMF
measures are not disclosed as separate items in the PBS, but the
budget papers foreshadow shared ‘hubs’ to provide corporate services and to
deliver community and business grants: BP4, p. 3.
|
[0.700]
Not disclosed in PBS
|
–
|
$0.7m
as part of cross-portfolio ‘Shared and Common Services’ above.
|
Health Portfolio
|
|
|
|
Department
of Health
PSMF
measures are not disclosed as separate items on PBS p. 36. The
budget papers foreshadow shared ‘hubs’ to provide corporate services and to
deliver community and business grants, and the Data Integration Partnership
for Australia: BP4, pp. 2-3.
|
[0.700]
[15.600]
Not disclosed in PBS
|
–
|
$0.7m
as part of cross-portfolio ‘Shared and Common Services’ above.
$15.6m
for ‘Data Integration Partnership for Australia (DIPA) Better
Health and Ageing Data: Strengthen analytical capabilities of health and
aged care datasets, to enable Health to better target services for
individuals and communities to contribute to long-term health reform’.
|
Australian
Institute of Health and Welfare
For
the T&I measure, ‘the Government will provide $3.4 million over three
years’: PBS, p. 208.
|
3.400
|
–
|
$3.4m
as part of ‘Data Integration Partnership for Australia (DIPA) - Infrastructure:
Provide the core technical infrastructure functionality and tools to bring
together data assets from multiple sources from across the APS, to better
link and integrate data’.
|
Australian
Sports Anti-Doping Authority
For
the AS measure, ‘the Government will provide $0.8 million’: PBS, p. 246.
|
–
|
0.800
|
$0.8m
for ‘Tenancy refit and relocation expenses: Fund the relocation and
fit-out of a new, smaller premises at the end of the ASADA's current lease,
to ensure that its operating premises remains sustainable and fit for purpose’.
|
Australian
Sports Commission
For
the AS measure, ‘the Government will provide $0.4 million’: PBS, p. 273.
|
–
|
0.400
|
$0.4m
for ‘Transferring websites onto the govCMS platform: Transfer the
ASC's websites onto the Australian government govCMS platform’.
|
National
Health and Medical Research Council
For
the AS measure, $8.5m to facilitate implementation of two Research Impact and
Grant Application Assignment prototype apps that ‘automate resource intensive
and repetitive tasks within the grants administration process’: PBS, p. 390.
|
–
|
8.500
|
$8.5m
for ‘Enhancing grant administration: Support enhancements to the
NHMRC's specific grants processes and to streamline its internal
administrative processes’.
|
‘In
2017-18, an additional $3.9 million in capital will be provided through [PSMF]
agency sustainability’. The PBS is not clear—this $3.9m may be included in
the $8.5m above, and may relate to ‘capital expenditure relating to an
Enhanced Reporting System, Cloud Computing solution, and Digital Transition
project’: PBS, p. 393.
|
|
|
Not
included.
|
Immigration
and Border Protection Portfolio
|
|
|
|
Department
of Immigration and Border Protection
‘Funding
of $0.7 million in 2019–20 for this measure has already been provided for by
the Government’: PBS, p. 18 note (b).
|
0.700
|
–
|
$0.7m
as part of cross-portfolio ‘Shared and Common Services’ above.
|
Industry,
Innovation and Science Portfolio
|
|
|
|
Department
of Industry, Innovation and Science
For
the T&I measure, ‘$20.0 million in departmental expenses and
$4.4 million in capital over the forward estimates’: PBS, pp.18–20 note (f).
|
Departmental
20.000
Capital
4.400
|
–
|
$10.7m
as part of cross-portfolio ‘Shared and Common Services’ above.
$1.6m
as part of ‘Digital Records Management Platform: Develop a
whole-of-government digital records management solution to modernise the
common function of record-keeping across the APS’.
$12.0m
for ‘Streamlining Grants Administration – Business Grants Hub:
Fast-track the consolidation and modernisation of grants administration to
support the delivery of a simplified and more sustainable operating model’.
|
For
the AS measure, ‘$8.2 million over the forward estimates’: PBS, pp. 18–20 note (e).
|
–
|
8.200
|
$8.2m
as part of cross-portfolio ‘Shared and Common Services [for] some
small and medium entities’ above.
|
Australian
Institute of Marine Science
‘Equity
injections of $1.6 million and $0.2 million for 2017–18 and 2018–19
respectively ... will be applied to the installation of a Solar Photovoltaic
System’: PBS, pp. 68 note (a) and 75.
|
–
|
1.800
|
$1.8m
for ‘Increasing utilisation of the National Sea Simulator: Support the
operation of the National Sea Simulator, SeaSim at increased capacity’.
|
CSIRO
‘This
measure will provide $3.1 million in 2017–18, $6.6 million in 2018–19 and
$6.1 million in 2019–20’: PBS, p. 115 note (a).
Funding
aims to expand the role of Data61 to ‘deliver a data integration platform
that supports law enforcement and regulatory agencies to better detect,
prevent and disrupt illicit activities within Australia and overseas’: BP4, p. 2.
|
15.800
|
–
|
$13.9m
for ‘Data61 Data Integration: Deliver a common, tested, secure and
supported platform to enhance data integration across government, with a
focus on border protection, regulatory and national security functions’.
$1.9m
for ‘Data Integration Partnership for Australia (DIPA) - Technical
Oversight: Provide an assurance and advisory role during the DIPA build
phase, to test the robustness of the systems developed and ensure the proper
management and handling of data privacy’.
|
Geoscience
Australia
‘This
measure will provide $6.0 million in 2017–18 and $9.3 million in 2018–19’:
PBS, p. 146. The
budget papers note that ‘Geoscience Australia will deliver a platform that
provides insights from satellite data into the changing Australian landscape
and coastline’: BP4, p. 2.
|
15.300
|
–
|
$15.3m
for ‘Interactive Digital Earth for Australia: Create a single point of
access for reliable and standardised satellite data on the changing
Australian landscape and coastline, to benefit industry, researchers and the
Australian community’.
|
Infrastructure and Regional Development Portfolio
|
|
|
|
Department
of Infrastructure and Regional Development
The PSMF
measures are not disclosed as separate items in the PBS, but the
budget papers foreshadow shared ‘hubs’ to provide corporate services and to
deliver community and business grants: BP4, p. 3.
|
[0.700]
Not disclosed in PBS
|
–
|
$0.7m
as part of cross-portfolio ‘Shared and Common Services’ above.
|
National Capital Authority
The AS measure capital funding is for ‘business and
ICT transformation and improvements to NCA managed buildings’: PBS, p. 176.
‘Additional
funding in 2017–18 to ... undertake essential maintenance of Commonwealth
assets and for strategic investment in improved asset management systems. The
expenditure for this measure is not for publication (nfp) due to
commercial-in-confidence sensitivities’: BP2, p. 135; PBS,
p. 169.
|
–
|
[5.800]
Not disclosed in PBS
|
$3.3m
for ‘Business/ICT/digital transformation: Transform the NCA's ICT
platform and business services through implementing end-to-end technology
based processes and solutions’.
$2.5m
for ‘Building improvements: Upgrade the Deck restaurant at Regatta
Point to enhance its financial viability as a revenue generating venue’.
|
Parliamentary
departments
|
|
|
|
No
PSMF measures.
|
–
|
–
|
Not
included.
|
Prime
Minister and Cabinet Portfolio
|
|
|
|
Department
of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
Quantum
and purpose of PSMF funding are not disclosed in PBS, pp. 23–24. The
budget papers foreshadow shared ‘hubs’ to provide corporate services and to
deliver community and business grants, the Data Integration Partnership for
Australia, and funding to ‘drive further uptake of Behavioural Economics ...’: BP4, pp. 2-3.
|
[45.300]
Not
disclosed
|
–
|
$1.4m
as part of cross-portfolio ‘Shared and Common Services’ above.
$17.1m
for ‘Data Integration Partnership for Australia (DIPA) – Oversight
and Analysis: Establish six data analytical hubs and engage with the
community to ensure appropriate data controls are in place which enhance
public trust’.
$12.3m
for ‘the Behavioural Economics Team of the Australian Government
(BETA): Help drive innovation in policy, program and service delivery design
via behavioural economics’.
$9.5m
for ‘CabNet: Redevelop the Government’s secure Cabinet document
management system’.
$5.0m
for ‘Digital First Briefing System: Develop an enhanced government
communications capability, to provide real-time information and advice from
departments and integrate with other business processes’.
|
Australian
Public Service Commission
For
the T&I measure, ‘appropriations will increase in 2017–18 [and decrease
to] lower levels in 2018–19 and 2019–20’: PBS, p. 117.
Details not disclosed in PBS, p. 110.
In
the budget papers, it is stated that ‘funding will also be provided ... to
support digital skill training for public sector staff’: BP4, p. 3.
|
[4.600]
Not disclosed in PBS
|
–
|
$4.6m
as part of ‘Building Digital Capability in the APS: Provide enhanced
digital capability across government through targeted capability development
via a mix of direct and online methods’.
|
Digital
Transformation Agency
Details
not disclosed in PBS p. 135.
In the
budget papers, it is stated that ‘funding will also be provided ... to support
digital skill training for public sector staff’. Further, the DTA is
committed to improving ‘Tell us once’ service, and ‘develop[ing] a Federated
Data Exchange platform that removes the need to build and maintain bespoke
point-to-point data exchanges between agencies’: BP4, p. 3.
|
[44.300]
Not disclosed in PBS
|
–
|
$9.3m
as part of ‘Building Digital Capability in the APS’ above.
$33.5m
for ‘Whole-of-government digital platforms: Deliver a pilot set of
services using whole-of-government platforms, with the pilots being used as a
blueprint by other entities for the development of their own services’.
$1.5m
for ‘Modernisation Fund assurance: Provide oversight and assurances
for high-profile Modernisation Fund initiatives’.
|
Torres
Strait Regional Authority
Details
not disclosed in PBS, p. 300. The
budget papers note AS measure funding for ‘the replacement of the Torres
Strait Regional Authority land and sea management facility on Thursday
Island’: BP4, p. 3.
|
–
|
[3.000]
Not disclosed in PBS
|
$3m
for ‘Replacement of critical infrastructure: Capital works on the land
and sea management facility located on Thursday Island, to ensure that the
infrastructure remains sustainable and fit for purpose’.
|
Social
Services
|
|
|
|
Social
Services
‘The
lead entity for the measure: Public Service Modernisation Fund -
transformation and innovation stream is Cross Portfolio. The full measure
description and package details appear in Budget Paper No. 2 under Cross
Portfolio [p. 75]. DSS
will receive funding of $16.263m in 2017-18, $26.026m in 2018-19 and $11.394m
in 2019-20’: p. 27 note (c).
|
53.683
|
–
|
$0.7m
as part of cross-portfolio ‘Shared and Common Services’ above.
$29.8m
for ‘Data Integration Partnership for Australia (DIPA) – Enhancing
Data Exchange (DEX): Enhance the ICT components of DEX to allow it to
integrate with DIPA and provide access to a wider range of datasets by
stakeholders.’
$23.2m
for ‘Streamlining Grants Administration – Community Grants Hub:
Fast-track the consolidation and modernisation of grants administration to
support the delivery of a simplified and more sustainable operating model’.
|
Australian
Institute of Family Studies
The
lead entity for the measure: Public Service Modernisation Fund – agency
sustainability is Cross Portfolio. The full measure description and package
details appear in Budget Paper No. 2 under Cross Portfolio [p. 76]. AIFS
will receive funding of $1.158m in 2017-18’: p. 113 note (a).
|
–
|
1.158
|
$1.2m
for ‘New lease arrangements: Fund the fit out and relocation expenses associated
with moving to a more financially sustainable, longer-term arrangement’.
|
Treasury
Portfolio
|
|
|
|
Department
of the Treasury
T&I
measure and AS measure funding ‘to support the consolidation of shared
corporate services arrangements. The funding impacts of these two measures
are as follows: $7.7 million in 2017–18; $10.0 million in 2018–19 and $7.7
million in 2019–20’: PBS, p. 21 note (b).
|
[12.000]
|
[13.400]
|
$12.0m
as part of cross-portfolio ‘Shared and Common Services’ above.
$13.4m
as part of cross-portfolio ‘Shared and Common Services [for] some
small and medium entities’ above.
|
Australian
Bureau of Statistics
$37.7m
over three years from 2017–18 for T&I measure purposes: PBS, p. 57 note (a).
|
37.700
|
–
|
$37.5m
as part of ‘Data Integration Partnership for Australia (DIPA) - Infrastructure:
Provide the core technical infrastructure functionality and tools to bring
together data assets from multiple sources from across the APS, to better
link and integrate data’.
|
Australian
Securities and Investments Commission
$0.725m
in 2019–20: PBS, p. 152 note (a).
|
0.725
|
–
|
$0.7m
as part of cross-portfolio ‘Shared and Common Services’ above.
|
Not
for publication
|
|
|
|
Not
disclosed in a PBS.
|
–
|
[8.200]
|
$8.2m
for a purpose ‘Not for publication’.
|
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