It is time for Australia to contemplate the development for a digital marketplace data & insights that permit relevant information to be obtained by relevant parties in a timely manner, all the time preserving the privacy of individual data-subjects. The Data Exchange is a technological representation and implementation of the data & insights marketplace. The data traders entities supply and purchase data & insights from the marketplace platform. The data trader entities can be organizations, collectives, data cooperatives or individuals. The data trader parties obtain authorized access to data objects in a protected manner, where data objects include: raw data, references to data, collated data and reports, metadata and insights.