The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) is Australia’s largest national online database that compiles and provides free access to biodiversity information about Australia, including data on plants, animals, viruses and fungi, from various sources like scientific communities, government, industry, citizen science and the collections sector. The ALA then makes the data public, making it accessible for research, conservation planning, and education purposes; essentially acting as Australia's central repository for biodiversity data. Recently, the ALA has made a concerted effort to help support Australia’s biosecurity sector. Here, I examine how recent ALA biosecurity initiatives can support the plant pathology sector now and into the future. I’ll highlight how use of public campaigns and biosecurity email alerts, are assisting the biosecurity community by greatly expanding the capacity of general surveillance to detect and report invasive species throughout Australia. I’ll also touch on future opportunities for biosecurity surveillance including applying a Geomodel as a form of anomaly detection to large global datasets to pick up changes in abundance or distribution of species in our region. I’ll profile new biosecurity datasets in the ALA, that are greatly expanding the taxonomic representation of biosecurity relevant species. Many of the new datasets have been added as a result of a dedicated biosecurity data mobilisation scheme, which has been successful in incentivising the biosecurity and biodiversity collections community to digitise and provide their data to the ALA. Finally, I’ll conclude by highlighting the future opportunities that exist to harvest contributions from new sources and to take advantage of new technologies that can improve data quality and taxonomic representation for the benefit of plant pathology. My aim is to profile the importance of open data infrastructures in supporting management as well as future research translation opportunities for the sector.