We design learning that helps government teams deliver with clarity, confidence and consistency across departments, disciplines and communities. From high-security units to marine science labs, from environmental compliance to LGBTIQA+ inclusion, we’ve worked with local, state, federal and international government agencies to create learning that moves people to act. We know the challenges: high expectations, multiple stakeholders, strict standards and stretched teams. We bring the structure, energy and know-how to get the learning done right. How we support government teams:
- Translate policy and legislation into practical learning
- Build onboarding programs for large, diverse workforces
- Design courses that meet accessibility and inclusion standards
- Deliver cultural capability, risk, data and systems training
- Support health, justice, education and environment portfolios
- Blend eLearning with job aids, facilitator kits and comms
- Align programs with national frameworks and capability models
- Build learning that performs under audit and scales across regions
Recent government projects.
We’ve worked across more than 20 departments, councils and agencies, delivering learning that supports policy, reform, and frontline services. Projects include:
- — Emergency animal disease response, and foot-and-mouth and lumpy skin disease surveillance, with QRGs on tracing and movement controls
- Marine Strandings — Marine strandings response learning map and priority modules
- Department of Education WA — Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: strategies for effective educators, online module and SCORM
- Workplace Injury Commission (Vic) — Compliance eLearn suite, including the ‘Who Wears It’ Rise prototype and campaign concepts
- — Core Cultural Learning, Core Ethics and culturally responsive teaching, with scripts and video
- Australian Taxation Office — Instructional Design Essentials: launch workshop facilitator guide, ADDIE toolkit, learning architecture, job aids, QRGs and SCORM
- Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner — Administering the FOI Act (modules 1 to 4), core and advanced exemptions, and the Privacy and Data Protection Act
- — Interpreters and translators, corporate induction with a manager QRG, and the NSW Settlement Strategy mentee guide
- NSW Ageing and Disability Commission — Responding to abuse of older people and adults with disability: four modules, summary booklets, fact sheets and reflective practice resources
- DCCEEW and NSW Treasury — Climate risk modules on the governance, strategy, risk management and metrics and targets pillars, with SCORM
- Youth Justice NSW — Bail supervision and remand intervention training, learning design strategy and a bail training package
- Corrections Victoria — Barwon induction and all-sites mandatory modules
- City of Adelaide — Disability access and inclusion eLearning plus a SharePoint resource hub covering easy read, universal design, accessible events and inclusive customer service
- City of Monash — LGBTIQA+ inclusion eLearning, and the Preventing Violence Against Women module
- Seqwater — Apprentice, trainee and water treatment plant operator programs, supervisor orientation checklist and the graduate accountant booklet
- Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust – burials induction, the toolbox series, CX induction and the ‘Elevate’ train-the-trainer, PeopleStreme, Urbanise and Log It system training
- Queensland Health – Voluntary assisted dying and clinical system simulations
- IPWEA — Local government roads and public works: phase 1 report, revised course outline and participant workbook
- VLSB+C — Vicarious trauma eLearning for the Victorian Legal Services Board and Commissioner, with storyboard, QRG and evaluation strategy
- Victorian DJSIR — Psychosocial risk microlearns on low autonomy and low trust, and unreasonable time pressure, with video scripts
- Austroads — National Heavy Vehicle Driver Competency Framework: LR, MR, HR and HC trainer guides, classroom slides, in-class assessments, test and trial plan and an independent report
- NDIS — Data literacy eLearning with chart descriptors and an APS data literacy guide, and a DCOP quick reference guide
- World Health Organization – — modules and animation storyboard for GOARN
- PHRN — Data linkage training: four phases with reports and infosheets
- Metropolitan Memorial Parks — WHS e-form rollout with posters, fact sheet, SOP template and toolbox talk leader guide; finance system tutorials and workbook; ID strategy and toolbox
We also design reusable learning strategies, editable templates, and internal toolkits, so your team can deliver confidently well beyond the initial rollout.
Government learning programs.
Government teams who don’t settle for boring training.
Government case studies.
City of Melton
About the client Melton City Council is a local government organisation serving one of Australia’s fastest-growing and most diverse communities in Melbourne’s west. The Council delivers a wide range of community services, programs, and initiatives focused on inclusion, wellbeing, equity, and community safety. Through its commitment to gender equality and the prevention of family violence, […]
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