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Data Integration Partnership for Australia

To provide funding for initiatives that will facilitate the analysis of data by collecting, sharing and linking data from multiple sources by electronic means, including by:

(a) creating integrated data analytical units; and

(b) creating integrated datasets; and

(c) enhancing the Data Exchange, which is a platform used by certain entities that receive government funding to report on their performance; and

(d) enhancing the Enterprise Data Warehouse, which is a platform which holds data for health and aged care programs; and

(e) implementing a National Education Evidence Base; and

(f) providing trusted third parties with access to integrated datasets; and

(g) promoting public understanding of the benefits of analysing data from multiple sources.

This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to providing funding for activities:

(a) involving the use of telegraphic, telephonic, or other like services (within the meaning of paragraph 51(v) of the Constitution); or

(b) for the collection, analysis, dissemination or use of statistics (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xi) of the Constitution); or

(c) that are incidental to the provision of invalid or old-age pensions (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xxiii) of the Constitution); or

(d) that are incidental to the provision of maternity allowances, widows' pensions, child endowment, unemployment, pharmaceutical, sickness or hospital benefits, medical or dental services, benefits to students or family allowances (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xxiiiA) of the Constitution); or

(e) peculiarly adapted to the government of a nation and that cannot otherwise be carried out for the benefit of the nation; or

(f) in the exercise of the executive power of the Commonwealth.