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.
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.
Award-winning government work
The Drupal community has independently judged the quality of our work:
Winner 2026
Best in Government, Best in Show, Drupal South Wellington 2026 Splash Awards: Cancer Australia
Winner 2024
Winner of the Government category, Best in Show, DrupalCon Singapore 2024 Splash Awards: Mentally Healthy Workplaces Platform
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.
What our clients say
“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.
Related projects
Cancer Australia
Unifying Cancer Australia’s websites through a GovCMS consolidation
The Cancer Australia corporate site was a collaboration between PaperMoose and PreviousNext. It consolidates Cancer Australia’s various websites into a unified, modern platform. The result is a GovCMS PaaS platform with significant Drupal integrations.
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.