# Australia's AI opportunity starts with data

DevFeed: [Australia's AI opportunity starts with data](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/australia-s-ai-opportunity-starts-with-data-31487.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.elastic.co/blog/australia-parliamentary-ai-showcase>)

Author: Sean MacKirdy

Published: 2026-09-17T01:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Elastic Blog - Elasticsearch, Kibana, and ELK Stack](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/elastic-blog-elasticsearch-kibana-and-elk-stack.md>)

Topics: [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [AI Strategy](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-strategy.md>)

Tags: [agentic-ai-government](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic-ai-government.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-adoption](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-adoption.md>), [australia](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/australia.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/platform.md>), [public-sector-media-entertainment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/public-sector-media-entertainment.md>)

## AI overview

Elastic's participation in Australia's first Parliamentary AI Industry Showcase emphasized that data is a central constraint on AI performance and a prerequisite for deploying AI that is effective, safe, and trusted.

## Source excerpt

Elastic, a Founding Partner at Australia's first Parliamentary AI Industry Showcase, highlights that data, not just models, is the key to deploying safe, effective, and trusted AI.