National Framework for the Assurance of AI in Government

Why it matters for NETEVO

This is the AU intergovernmental anchor for AI assurance in government — signed at the June 2024 Data and Digital Ministers Meeting by the Commonwealth and every state and territory, and licensed under CC BY 4.0 for open citation. It sits above the NSW AI Assurance / Assessment Framework in the AU intergovernmental hierarchy, with state-level frameworks operating as the delivery layer for the principles this national framework establishes.

The single most directly-binding AU AI assurance framework for government supply chains. Where the AI Ethics Principles 2019 anchor baseline ethics thinking and the Voluntary AI Safety Standard anchors non-government voluntary adoption, the National Framework anchors government-sector AI use across all AU jurisdictions. Any AU enterprise tendering for Commonwealth or state and territory government work needs to demonstrate alignment with this instrument.

One template, multiple regulatory hooks. The framework cross-walks cleanly onto the NSW AI Assurance / Assessment Framework, the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, the NIST AI 600-1 Generative AI Profile, and the EU AI Act. NSW's framework expressly aligns with the National Framework plus the EU AI Act; the National Framework itself cross-walks to NIST AI RMF. For the integration thesis NETEVO operationalises through ISO/IEC 42001, this adds the AU intergovernmental assurance regime as a further hook, sitting between the international standards layer and the operational state-government layer.

NETEVO's Law-to-Code Methodology applied against the NSW framework is the operational form; the National Framework is the policy frame supplier officers and procurement teams read before any AI procurement decision is taken.