In this short seminar Andrew Treloar, the Director of Platforms and Software for the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), will talk about the ARDC, its role in the Australian research ecosystem, its thematic approach to building a research data commons, and the Australian National Research Software Agenda. He will provide a perspective from another national infrastructure and its latest activities to compare to the NFDI. The seminar aims to open up further discussions about similar activities being undertaken in Australia by the ARDC and in Germany by the NFDI related to research software and digital infrastructures.