Australia

Australia is ranked 5th overall on the Index and achieves above average scores for all indicators.

Summary chart of Australia's scores in the 2019 InCiSE index. GBR NZL CAN FIN DNK NOR NLD SWE KOR USA EST CHE IRL AUT FRA ESP BEL DEU LTU MEX CHL LVA JPN ITA SVN ISR POL ISL CZE PRT TUR SVK HRV BGR ROU GRC HUN AUS InCiSE 0.87 0.52 Capabilities Crisis and risk management Digital services Fiscal and financial management HR management Inclusiveness Integrity Openness Policy making Procurement Regulation Tax administration

Australia’s crisis and risk management score is noteworthy. It is ranked 5th overall and achieves the maximum score for all metrics assessing the evaluation and communications themes, and for all but one of the metrics on preparedness.

Australia also does well on policy making and regulation (ranked 7th for both). Within the policy making indicator, Australia achieves the maximum score for one of the quality of advice metrics and also a metric assessing central government policy coordination. On regulation, Australia achieves the maximum score for two evaluation metrics.

Australia’s highest ranking attribute scores are for integrity and inclusiveness (both ranked 8th). On integrity, Australia achieves the maximum score for the metric assessing the existence of post-employment cooling-off systems.

Cross-referencing note

This content was presented as section 4.1 in the original 2019 publication.