An open-access Symposium on FAIR vocabularies across domains, followed by an invitation-only Workshop on vocabulary service development were held at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra during November 2022. The purpose of the Symposium was to bring together users, creators and publishers of vocabularies across domains and sectors in Australia, to share experiences and identify requirements for FAIR vocabularies underpinning cross-domain data. governing vocabularies. The workshop focused on developing a program for how to promote movement from the current state of Australian vocabularies toward a future state that meets next generation vocabulary requirements (FAIR and well governed). This is a report on those events