This Tech Policy Spotlight, Tetris for Australia’s Future: Aligning Our National AI Priorities, was unveiled at an event on 6 August 2025 in Sydney keynoted by Senator the Hon Tim Ayres, Minister for Industry and Innovation, and Minister for Science.
To provide leadership and implementation momentum, Australia should establish a Ministerial AI Taskforce to develop – and more importantly, start immediately executing – a comprehensive National AI Strategy and Action Plan.
“Australia’s AI future is not yet written. The Tech Policy Design Institute is calling for ambitious, coordinated and decisive leadership to ensure AI delivers for all Australians. Our research shows how the different elements of national AI policy – people and planet, productivity, trusted information and institutions, regulatory courage, national capability, global governance – can either fit together or clash like Tetris pieces. Our report provides a clear framework to help Australia align these moving pieces, clicking them into place for a cohesive Australian AI Strategy. ”
To provide leadership and implementation momentum, Australia should establish a Ministerial AI Taskforce to develop – and more importantly, start immediately executing – a comprehensive National AI Strategy and Action Plan.
AI intersects with all elements of Australia’s national interest, from economic, social and environmental outcomes, to security, trade and diplomacy. This Tech Policy Spotlight outlines six interconnected priorities. Combined, they represent a vision for what Australia’s future could look like if we get AI diffusion right.
Pursuing this vision should be a bipartisan effort. Picture a game of Tetris: depending on the skill and strategy of the players, falling pieces may end up at odds or click smoothly into place. Currently, different ministers and stakeholders are controlling different priorities with no coherent overarching plan of how it all fits together, and to what exact end.
The Ministerial AI Taskforce and National AI Strategy and Action Plan will position Australia to optimally slot each priority into place – purposefully building the AI foundation our nation needs for the future.
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This Tech Policy Spotlight was made possible thanks to the sponsorship of the Tech Policy Design Fund.
This Tech Policy Spotlight was launched in Sydney by Senator the Hon Tim Ayres, Minister for Industry and Innovation, Minister for Science