At the ICSM Permanent Committee on Geodesy (PCG) meeting in February there was much discussion and agreement for the implementation of a new datum (static) for Australia. The preliminary name is "GDA 2020" with a proposed initial release in January 2017, with implementation by jurisdictions to follow (date/s to be determined).
There is nothing official on the new datum yet as it hasn't been approved by ANZLIC (the peak government body for spatial information in Australia and New Zealand). The PCG are working towards getting this approval by July so until then there won’t be any formal statement. The establishment of an implementation working group will follow to coordinate promotion and implementation of the new datum.
The new datum will be accompanied with new tools to enable users to transform datasets to/from GDA94 and any ITRF epoch (just as there are now eg 14 parameter transformation) and it is expected that software providers will increasingly implement these transformation capabilities.
There has been a one page write-up earlier this year that is in the Feb/Mar Position magazine on page 48. Some of the senior state geodetic managers did not want this article to be published until after our Permanent Committee on Geodesy meeting in February as the article could then be more informed rather than making assumptions about how the new datum will be implemented that are simply misleading.