Geoscience Australia Strategy 2026–2036 Strategic shifts

We collaborate to understand stakeholders’ needs and leverage our full range of capabilities to meet them.

Working in partnership seamlessly: We partner with our key stakeholders (internally and externally), ensuring that we properly understand their needs and co-design effective solutions to achieve shared goals.

Maximising value for our users: By bringing together our diverse capabilities around the needs of key stakeholders, we make our world-class applied geoscience more impactful and easier to access and use.

We integrate our ways of working, systems and outputs to maximise impact.

Addressing Australia’s challenges and opportunities: By taking cross-functional, inter-disciplinary and integrated approaches, we bring together the best of our expertise (including scientific and other specialist knowledge), data and technology to help address Australia’s complex challenges and opportunities.

Maximising the impact of our applied science: Scientific advances increasingly come from integrating different inputs and perspectives. We are leaders in applied geoscience insights through cross-disciplinary collaboration that drives innovation.

We use our unique capabilities to transform data into actionable insights.

Enabling better and faster decision-making: By transforming data into actionable insights, we will support accelerated, evidence-based decision-making in a complex and rapidly changing environment.

Extending our unique capabilities along the data value chain: By extending our offerings along the data value chain where we can make the biggest difference, we leverage our combination of expertise, technology and data to deliver unique products and services that benefit stakeholders and advance our strategic priorities.

We optimise our approach for shared success and sustainability.

Delivering sustainably: We continue to be effective stewards of public resources and ensure our delivery is sustainable over the long term for the benefit of all Australians.

Operating with agility and resilience: We thrive in an increasingly complex and dynamic environment through whole-of-enterprise approaches, robust systems and efficient operations.