Skip to main content
Start of main content.

Drupal & GovCMS for government websites in Australia

As Australia's only Top Tier Drupal Certified Partner, we design, build and support secure digital platforms.

Our work has seen us partner with local, state and federal government agencies across the country.

We've worked inside government since 2009. That’s long enough for us to appreciate and understand the pressures that come with public sector delivery. 

  • Strict budgets. 
  • Procurement panels. 
  • Accessibility obligations. 
  • Security sign-off. 
  • Multiple stakeholders. 

We’ve built an agency designed to navigate these challenges, and without losing sight of your end goals. 

  • Service NSW
  • State Library of South Australia
  • NSW Government
  • Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
  • Major Projects - NSW Planning Portal - NSW Government
  • Australian Digital Health Agency

Award-winning government work

The Drupal community has independently judged the quality of our work:

 

Winner of Splash Awards logo
Winner 2026

Best in Government, Best in Show, Drupal South Wellington 2026 Splash Awards: Cancer Australia

Winner of Splash Awards logo
Winner 2024

Winner of the Government category, Best in Show, DrupalCon Singapore 2024 Splash Awards: Mentally Healthy Workplaces Platform

Related projects

Walsh Bay Arts Precinct homepage
Walsh Bay Arts Precinct

Walsh Bay Arts Precinct

Walsh Bay Arts Precinct launched its visually stunning Drupal site with new branding, a dynamic 'What’s On' section, and an advanced editorial experience designed for flexibility and ease of use.

ANSTO project to connect Drupal webforms to SAP
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation

Connecting Drupal webforms to SAP C4C

Using a CRM to manage user submissions makes it easier for ANSTO to manage its many web forms. To make this happen, our task was to create an automated connection between the webforms on their Drupal site and SAP.

Screenshot of Service NSW homepage and range of services
Service NSW

Fostering digital growth

Service NSW have made changes to provide users and administrators with a unified approach to exemplary customer service. Now, SNSW are synonymous with digital growth and excellence and are constantly pivoting to meet customers’ needs wherever they are.

Mentally healthy workplaces platform homepage screenshot
National Mental Health Commission

The Mentally Healthy Workplaces Platform

The award-winning Mentally Healthy Workplaces platform was our inaugural Drupal 10 project. The result is a site that provides a single credible avenue to contributed and curated information, resources and learning facilitated by lightning-fast natural language search. It enables and informs, encouraging organisations and individuals to create a mentally healthy workplace utilising trusted information. 

Screenshot of OneCX program and section pull outs
NSW Government

The OneCX Program

Using the Digital NSW Design System as a foundation, NSW Government sites are consolidating onto nsw.gov.au to create a consistent user experience. Applying custom development, we have developed multiple features under the OneCX banner as part of this amalgamation. 

An illustration representing systems and stacks
Undisclosed

Driving website revenue in five sprints

We were able to help our government client meet their unique requirements for a modern and secure revenue-generating website within just five sprints. Our work is cemented by ongoing support and hosting through Skpr.

ADHA Feature Banner
Australian Digital Health Agency

A consolidated digital presence for the ADHA using GovCMS PaaS

The Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) plays a vital role in the immediate and future health of all Australians. 

In 2020, we helped them consolidate their ageing websites into a single GovCMS PaaS platform, empowering them to talk directly with Australians amid the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

Australian Digital Health Agency website homepage
Australian Digital Health Agency

Running Discovery

The Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) wanted to reposition itself to better support the needs of all Australians. We were approached to engage target users of the website in order to test and validate assumptions and provide recommendations for a new website. The outcome would more fully represent ADHA's vision, direction and Digital Strategy.

The Department of Planning and Environment Planning Portal homepage with pull outs of features
The Department of Planning, Industry and Environment

Major Projects: A modernised user interface

Major Projects was designed to sit within the existing NSW Planning Portal and deal specifically with significant developments in the state. Together, we turned a site with low user engagement, poor user experience and user interface into a modernised platform that delivers quality in customer experience.

Brisbane City Council homepage with key features highlighted
Brisbane City Council

Enhancing user interaction

Whilst hitting timelines, we were able to help Brisbane City Council achieve the intuitively designed site they needed using a phased approach. The end result was a site that provided enhanced options for user interaction with Council.

SLSA Feature Large
State Library of South Australia

Designing pathways to content

During a site upgrade for the State Library of South Australia, we identified an opportunity to reimagine their site navigation and information architecture. This played a significant role in highlighting and signposting the wealth of information and the Collections available to view–online and in person at the library.

ANSTO Feature Image
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation

Boosting engagement using Drupal

The ANSTO website is a key driver of the organisation’s external relations. In order to increase this engagement, ANSTO needed an up-to-date site that followed web standards. To reach that goal, we partnered to develop a new website on Drupal 8.

Feature
The NSW Department of Customer Service

Evolving the online customer experience

With our help, DCS set out to integrate a fluid design system into an updated Drupal 8 site. This improved both the customer and content editor experiences, and also enabled developers to share a consistent look and functionality across several government websites.

Service NSW feature image
Service NSW

Drupal 8 Transition

Service NSW was established to provide a unified approach to customer service by the New South Wales government. This included new branding, building dedicated customer service centres and call centres, and the development of a digital services portal.

State Library of South Australia Website
State Library of South Australia

Consistent user experience

The State Library of South Australia is the state's largest public reference library, with a collection focused on South Australian information and general reference material for information and research purposes. The library engaged us to research their customers' needs and design a new modern, engaging and accessible website in Drupal 8.

ANSTO Website
Australia's Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation

A foundational design system

We helped ANSTO to design and deliver their new website built on Drupal 8, coinciding with their brand relaunch.

ICPEN Feature Image
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

Redeveloping the ICPEN website

We worked with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) on the redevelopment of the International Consumer Protection and Enforcement Network (ICPEN) website. 

Feature Image for ANSTO
Australia's Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation

Developing a consolidated site

Having recently merged with the Australian Synchatron, ANSTO was in the perfect position to redevelop their site and upgrade to Drupal 8.

Screenshots of BCC website on desktop mobile and tablet
Brisbane City Council

Driving community engagement

As the largest local government body in Australia, Brisbane City Council (BCC) guides the city’s future growth and development. We rebuilt BCC’s website on aGov, the open Drupal platform for Australian Government websites.

Transport for NSW Desktop Feature Image
Transport for NSW

Consolidating Multiple Government Websites

We came onboard as the department's Drupal build partner to develop a new Drupal 8 platform that consolidates myriad websites across the organisation.

Screenshots Wyndham City site desktop mobile and tablet
Wyndham City

A host of new features

Wyndham City, a local government organisation based in the southwest region of Melbourne, undertook a competitive tender selection for the redevelopment of their website and chose us to deliver this new site on Drupal.

Sport and Rec website screenshots of desktop mobile and tablet
NSW Office of Sport

New Sport and Recreation website

Sport and Recreation, run by the NSW Government Office of Sport, brought us on board to redesign and redevelop their website in Drupal. 

Screenshots of EME on desktop tablet and mobile
Energy Made Easy

Helping Australians choose their energy provider

The Australian Energy Regulator (AER) oversees energy markets and networks and assists the ACCC with consumer energy-related issues. We were powered up by the AER for the Drupal redevelopment of their Australian Government website, Energy Made Easy.

Screenshots of the Red Cross Information Bureau Centenary of Anzac website
State Library of South Australia

Red Cross ANZAC Records

We worked with the State Library of South Australia on the Drupal development and design of the Red Cross Information Bureau Centenary of Anzac website.

Why government agencies choose us

Tried and tested security and compliance

Our platforms undergo penetration testing and security reviews before launch. We’ve never had a critical security incident across our entire government portfolio.

Accessibility by default

We develop every build to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) standards. Public sector sites need to work for everyone, not almost everyone.

Australian sovereignty

A 100% Australian, permanent employee team. Your data and your platform stay onshore, with no offshore dependency.

Value for money

Our senior-only team takes fewer hours to reach the same outcome, with no junior developers learning on your project.

Design standards fluency

We build to GovCMS, NSW Government Design System, and agency-specific design systems, so your site fits the broader government digital ecosystem.

“They were a pleasure to deal with, always responsive and managed the many stakeholders professionally throughout. We are thrilled with the outcome." – Heather Clarke, Precinct Manager, Walsh Bay Arts Precinct

Why Drupal is government’s platform of choice

Government agencies need a digital platform that will:

  • outlast procurement cycles
  • remain consistent throughout machinery-of-government changes, and
  • continue to meet and exceed rigorous security standards. 

That need has shaped a clear pattern across Australian public sector digital teams and is why Drupal remains their clear choice.

Five reasons for choosing Drupal

  • It's the basis of GovCMS itself. GovCMS is built on Drupal, so agencies can share a common, supported platform instead of each running something different. Choosing Drupal means choosing the same foundation as hundreds of other government sites.
  • No licence, no lock-in. There's no vendor licence fee, and no single supplier controls the code. If a panel arrangement changes or a supplier relationship ends, your agency isn't left renegotiating access to your own platform.
  • It meets government security expectations. Drupal has a dedicated security team and a formal, coordinated disclosure process. This is the kind of governance model procurement and ICT security teams expect to see before sign-off.
  • It scales across a whole-of-government footprint. The same platform that runs a small council site can run a high-traffic federal agency – and it does it consistently.
  • The code is auditable. Government agencies can commission independent security reviews of the underlying platform. Not just of custom code layered on top, but of Drupal itself.

GovCMS, from strategy through to support

As a founding member of the Drupal Services Panel, we've been part of the GovCMS ecosystem since its earliest days. That means we know its constraints and its opportunities better than most.

Our GovCMS work spans the full lifecycle:

  • Discovery workshops and user experience research
  • Softwware-as-a-Service (SaaS) implementations for agencies who need to move fast within a managed environment
  • Custom development on Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for agencies with more complex integration or compliance needs
  • Ongoing enhancement, support and hosting once your platform is live.

Whichever path suits your agency, you're working with a team that's delivered both – not one that's guessing.

Walsh Bay Arts Precinct logo colour
Walsh Bay Arts Precinct

Walsh Bay Arts Precinct

Walsh Bay Arts Precinct launched its visually stunning Drupal site with new branding, a dynamic 'What’s On' section, and an advanced editorial experience designed for flexibility and ease of use.

ANSTO Teaser
User Experience Case Study

ANSTO: Design System

ANSTO is one of Australia’s largest public research organisations working to find solutions to some of the biggest questions in science. To coincide with their brand relaunch in 2018, PreviousNext was engaged to design and deliver their new website built on Drupal 8.

Ready to talk about your project?

Talk to our government website delivery team.

Contact us today.