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Australian Accounting Standard governing revenue from contracts with customers : AASB 15
As at 2022. Source: Australian Accounting Standards Board . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Australian businesses reporting use of AI in the workplace (up from 1% in 2022-23) : 12%
As at 2024-25. Source: ABS Characteristics of Australian Business 2024-25 . Verified 25 Aug 2026
AI use rate in the Information, Media and Telecommunications industry, the highest of any Australian industry (up from 8% in 2021-22) : 38%
As at 2024-25. Source: ABS Characteristics of Australian Business 2024-25 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
AI adoption rate among innovation-active Australian businesses, against 6% for non-innovation-active businesses : 20%
As at 2024-25. Source: ABS Characteristics of Australian Business 2024-25 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Large Australian businesses using AI (up from 9% in 2021-22) : 35%
As at 2024-25. Source: ABS Characteristics of Australian Business 2024-25 . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Medium-sized Australian businesses that had adopted AI (up from 3% previously) : 22%
As at 2024-25. Source: ABS Characteristics of Australian Business 2024-25 . Verified 25 Aug 2026
AI adoption rate among innovation-active small businesses in Australia : 19%
As at 2024-25. Source: ABS Characteristics of Australian Business 2024-25 . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Australian business R&D expenditure on AI (up from $276.3 million in 2021-22) : $668.3 million
As at 2023-24. Source: ABS Business R&D release (2025) . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Total Australian business expenditure on research and development (up 18% from 2021-22) : $24,410 million
As at 2023-24. Source: ABS Research and Experimental Development, Businesses, Australia 2023-24 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Share of Australian business R&D expenditure in the research field of information and computing sciences : 42%
As at 2023-24. Source: ABS Research and Experimental Development, Businesses, Australia 2023-24 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Business entry rate in Australia in 2025-26 (460,461 entries; exit rate 13.8%) : 16.9%
As at 2025-26. Source: ABS Counts of Australian Businesses, including Entries and Exits, July 2022 - June 2026 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Australian businesses that reported experiencing barriers to innovation (down from 42% in 2022-23) : 35%
As at 2024-25. Source: ABS Characteristics of Australian Business 2024-25 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Australian businesses reporting use of cloud technology : 59%
As at 2021-22. Source: ABS Characteristics of Australian Business 2021-22 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Share of businesses hit by a cyber security incident in 2024-25 that were adversely impacted (most commonly lost time, financial loss and downtime) : 63%
As at 2024-25. Source: ABS Characteristics of Australian Business 2024-25 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Share of Australian businesses that experienced a cyber security incident in 2024-25 : 21%
As at 2024-25. Source: ABS Characteristics of Australian Business 2024-25 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Australian businesses that actively collected or analysed data to make informed decisions (down from 24% in 2021-22) : 10%
As at 2024-25. Source: ABS Characteristics of Australian Business 2024-25 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Australian businesses reporting use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) : 85%
As at 2021-22. Source: ABS Characteristics of Australian Business 2021-22 . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Australian businesses reporting being innovation-active : 46%
As at 2024-25. Source: ABS Characteristics of Australian Business 2024-25 . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Australian businesses reporting lack of access to additional funds as a barrier to innovation, the most common barrier (lack of skilled persons 11%, cost of development 11%) : 15%
As at 2024-25. Source: ABS Characteristics of Australian Business 2024-25 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Australian businesses citing a lack of skilled persons within the business as a barrier to innovation : 11%
As at 2024-25. Source: ABS Characteristics of Australian Business 2024-25 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Innovation-active Australian businesses that collaborated or used a fee-for-service arrangement for innovation : 32%
As at 2024-25. Source: ABS Characteristics of Australian Business 2024-25 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Australian businesses reporting their internet met most or all of their business needs : over 91%
As at 2024-25. Source: ABS Characteristics of Australian Business 2024-25 . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Australian businesses that measured the contribution of digital activities to overall business performance (3% in 2021-22) : 7%
As at 2024-25. Source: ABS Characteristics of Australian Business 2024-25 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Australian businesses that introduced a new good or service (28% introduced a new process) : 23%
As at 2024-25. Source: ABS Characteristics of Australian Business 2024-25 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Share of Australian businesses with no measures in place to prevent cyber security incidents in 2024-25 : 28%
As at 2024-25. Source: ABS Characteristics of Australian Business 2024-25 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Australian businesses reporting placing online orders : 61%
As at 2021-22. Source: ABS Characteristics of Australian Business 2021-22 . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Australian businesses that used predictive analysis to plan business activities (down from 18% in 2021-22) : 6%
As at 2024-25. Source: ABS Characteristics of Australian Business 2024-25 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Australian businesses receiving orders online : 32%
As at 2024-25. Source: ABS Characteristics of Australian Business 2024-25 . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Share of Australian businesses reporting a shortage of skills within the business in 2024-25 : 35%
As at 2024-25. Source: ABS Characteristics of Australian Business 2024-25 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Australian businesses using social media for their online presence : 51%
As at 2024-25. Source: ABS Characteristics of Australian Business 2024-25 . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Australian businesses with a skills shortage that attributed it to specialist skills or knowledge being required (48% cited wage or salary costs) : 57%
As at 2024-25. Source: ABS Characteristics of Australian Business 2024-25 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Actively trading Australian businesses that employ staff (of 2,814,778 businesses in total) : 996,203
As at 30 June 2026. Source: ABS Counts of Australian Businesses, including Entries and Exits, July 2022 - June 2026 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Business exit rate in Australia in 2025-26 (375,331 exits) : 13.8%
As at 2025-26. Source: ABS Counts of Australian Businesses, including Entries and Exits, July 2022 - June 2026 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Actively trading Australian businesses with 200 or more employees : 5,366
As at 30 June 2026. Source: ABS Counts of Australian Businesses, including Entries and Exits, July 2022 - June 2026 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Actively trading Australian businesses with 20-199 employees (medium businesses) : 68,325
As at 30 June 2026. Source: ABS Counts of Australian Businesses, including Entries and Exits, July 2022 - June 2026 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Australians who reported using a language other than English at home (2021 Census) : 22.8%
As at 2021. Source: ABS 2021 Census, Cultural diversity of Australia . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Australians who spoke English not well or not at all (2021 Census) : 3.4%
As at 2021. Source: ABS Cultural diversity of Australia (2021 Census) . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Australia's resident population born overseas (2021 Census) : 27.6%
As at 2021. Source: ABS 2021 Census, Cultural diversity of Australia . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Digital activity value added to the Australian economy (equal to 6.1% of total value added) : $118.0 billion
As at 2020-21. Source: ABS Digital activity in the Australian economy 2020-21 . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Number of Australians with disability (21.4% of the population, up from 4.4 million in 2018) : 5.5 million
As at 2022. Source: ABS Disability, Ageing and Carers, Australia: Summary of Findings 2022 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Australia's 20-year average annual labour productivity growth rate (1.8% in 2003-04) : 0.8%
As at 2023-24. Source: ABS Measuring What Matters, Productivity . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Online non-food sales as a proportion of total non-food retailing in Australia : 19.0%
As at June 2025. Source: ABS Retail Trade, Australia (cat. 8501.0) . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Online sales as a proportion of total retail turnover in Australia : 12.7%
As at June 2025. Source: ABS Retail Trade, Australia (cat. 8501.0) . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Australia's estimated resident population at 31 December 2025 : 27,801,023
As at 31 December 2025. Source: ABS National, state and territory population, December 2025 . Verified 21 Oct 2026
Australians aged 65 years and over (15.9% in 2018) : 17.1%
As at 2022. Source: ABS Disability, Ageing and Carers, Australia: Summary of Findings 2022 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Total actively trading businesses in the Australian economy : 2,814,778
As at 30 June 2026. Source: ABS Counts of Australian Businesses (cat. 8165.0) . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Maximum pecuniary penalty for a corporation under the Australian Consumer Law for conduct on or after 28 March 2026 (the greater of this amount, 3x the benefit, or 30% of adjusted turnover) : $100,000,000
As at 2026. Source: ACCC, Fines and penalties . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Price threshold (including GST) under which a product or service bought for business use is covered by Australian Consumer Law consumer guarantees : less than $100,000
As at 2026. Source: ACCC, Consumer rights and guarantees . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Average download speed for fixed-line NBN connections during the busy evening period, as a share of plan speed : 99.4%
As at 2026. Source: ACCC, Measuring Broadband Australia (2026) . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Reported losses to payment redirection scams in Australia in 2025, the second-largest scam loss category after investment scams ($837.7m) : $166.8m
As at 2025. Source: ACCC National Anti-Scam Centre, Targeting Scams 2025 (media release, March 2026) . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Total reported financial losses to scams by Australians in calendar 2025 across Scamwatch, ReportCyber, AFCX, IDCARE and ASIC (274,577 reports with losses) : $2.18 billion
As at 2025. Source: ACCC National Anti-Scam Centre, Targeting Scams 2025 (media release, March 2026) . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Number of scam reports Australians made (a 17.8% decrease from 2023) : 494,732
As at 2024. Source: ACCC / National Anti-Scam Centre Targeting Scams Report 2024 . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Total combined reported losses to scams in Australia (a 25.9% decrease from 2023) : $2.03 billion
As at 2024. Source: ACCC / National Anti-Scam Centre Targeting Scams Report 2024 . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Date from which proposing, using or relying on unfair contract terms in standard form contracts became prohibited and subject to penalties : 9 November 2023
As at 2023. Source: ACCC, Contracts (unfair contract terms) . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Employee ceiling for a small business to be covered by unfair contract terms protections in standard form contracts (or under $10 million annual turnover), from 9 November 2023 : fewer than 100 employees
As at 2023. Source: ACCC, Contracts (unfair contract terms) . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Australian adults with internet access : 99.7 per cent
As at 2025. Source: ACMA, Communications and media in Australia research (media release, February 2026) . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Australians on at least one communication or social media website or app : 98%
As at 2024. Source: ACMA research reveals media and communications trends (December 2024) . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Australian adults using mobile internet daily (90% in 2024) : 92 per cent
As at 2025. Source: ACMA, Communications and media in Australia research (media release, February 2026) . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Numbers on the Do Not Call Register : 12.6 million
As at April 2025. Source: ACMA media release, April 2025, ACMA welcomes $1.5m penalty in Federal Court telemarketing case . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Australian adults with a home internet connection : 93%
As at June 2022. Source: ACMA, Communications and media in Australia: How we use the internet (2023) . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Number of services affected that defines a major telecommunications outage under the ACMA's outage communications rules : 100,000
As at 2024. Source: ACMA, New telco industry rules for major outages . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Australian adults who used a digital platform in the first half of 2025 and believe they encountered misinformation on a platform : 72 per cent
As at 2025-H1. Source: ACMA media release, November 2025, Majority of Australians encountering misinformation online . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Australian adults accessing the internet via a mobile phone (95% in 2024) : 97 per cent
As at 2025. Source: ACMA, Communications and media in Australia research (media release, February 2026) . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Australians who used an online service to watch video content : 91%
As at 2024. Source: ACMA research reveals media and communications trends (December 2024) . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Customer update cadence telcos must meet during the first 24 hours of a major or significant local outage : every 6 hours
As at 2026. Source: ACMA, Rules for significant and major outages . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Australian adults who used paid subscription streaming services : 68 per cent
As at 2025. Source: ACMA media release, March 2026, Streaming remains Australia's favourite way to watch or listen . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Maximum court penalty per day for a company breaching spam rules without a prior record (rising to $3,130,000 per day with a prior record), at October 2024 penalty-unit values : $626,000 per day
As at October 2024. Source: ACMA media release, October 2024, Commonwealth Bank pays $7.5m for more spam breaches . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Penalties Australian businesses paid for spam and telemarketing breaches over the 18 months to July 2026 : more than $12 million
As at January 2025 to July 2026. Source: ACMA media release, July 2026, TAB pays $2.7m for telemarketing and spam breaches . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Time within which a commercial electronic message sender must honour an unsubscribe request under the Spam Act 2003 : 5 working days
As at 2026. Source: ACMA, Avoid sending spam . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Australians aged 75 and over who are digitally excluded (54.5% of those who did not complete secondary school; 45.2% of public housing residents) : 66.5%
As at 2025. Source: Australian Digital Inclusion Index 2025 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
National Digital Ability score in the Australian Digital Inclusion Index 2025 (up 8.7 points since 2023) : 73.6
As at 2025. Source: Australian Digital Inclusion Index 2025 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Australians who are digitally excluded or highly excluded (9.2% highly excluded), Australian Digital Inclusion Index 2025 : 20.6%
As at 2025. Source: Australian Digital Inclusion Index 2025 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Digital inclusion gap between people with disability and people without disability, Australian Digital Inclusion Index 2025 : 11.4 points lower
As at 2025. Source: Australian Digital Inclusion Index 2025 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
First Nations people who are digitally excluded, Australian Digital Inclusion Index 2025 : 40.9%
As at 2025. Source: Australian Digital Inclusion Index 2025 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Australians who are highly digitally excluded, Australian Digital Inclusion Index 2025 : 9.2%
As at 2025. Source: Australian Digital Inclusion Index 2025 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Australians who are mobile-only internet users (up from 9.6% in 2021) : 10.5%
As at 2023. Source: Australian Digital Inclusion Index 2023 (Summary) . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Australia's national Australian Digital Inclusion Index score (up from 67.5 in 2020) : 73.2
As at 2023. Source: Australian Digital Inclusion Index 2023 (Summary) . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Number of Privacy Act Review proposals progressed by the Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2024 (in effect from 10 December 2024) : 23 proposals
As at 2024. Source: Attorney-General's Department, Government response to the Privacy Act Review Report . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Verified transactions through the Australian Government Digital ID System (AGDIS), more than triple the prior year : 80 million
As at December 2025. Source: Minister for Finance media release (December 2025) . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Commencement date of APRA's Prudential Standard CPS 230 Operational Risk Management : 1 July 2025
As at 2025. Source: APRA, Operational risk management (CPS 230) . Verified 16 Sept 2026
CPS 230 deadline to notify APRA of an operational risk incident likely to have a material impact : 72 hours
As at 2026. Source: APRA, Prudential Standard CPS 230 Operational Risk Management . Verified 16 Sept 2026
CPS 230 deadline to notify APRA of a disruption to a critical operation outside tolerance : 24 hours
As at 2026. Source: APRA, Prudential Standard CPS 230 Operational Risk Management . Verified 16 Sept 2026
CPS 234 deadline to notify APRA of a material information security control weakness that cannot be remediated in a timely manner : 10 business days
As at 2026. Source: APRA, Prudential Standard CPS 234 Information Security . Verified 16 Sept 2026
CPS 234 deadline for APRA-regulated entities to notify APRA of a material information security incident : 72 hours
As at 2026. Source: APRA, Prudential Standard CPS 234 Information Security . Verified 16 Sept 2026
People employed by small businesses in Australia (39% of the private-sector workforce) : over 5 million
As at 2023-24. Source: ASBFEO, Contribution to Australian Employment (July 2025) . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Value added to GDP by small businesses (employing fewer than 20 people), nearly one third of total GDP : over $590 billion
As at 2023-24. Source: ASBFEO, Contribution to Australian GDP (July 2025) . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Small businesses (0-19 employees) as a share of all Australian businesses : 97.2%
As at June 2024. Source: ASBFEO, Number of small businesses in Australia (August 2024) . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Share of self-reported business cybercrime that was business email compromise fraud resulting in financial loss (email compromise with no loss 19%, identity fraud 11%) : 15%
As at FY2024-25. Source: ASD/ACSC, Annual Cyber Threat Report 2024-25 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Average self-reported cost of cybercrime per report for businesses overall in FY2024-25 : $80,850
As at FY2024-25. Source: ASD/ACSC, Annual Cyber Threat Report 2024-25 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Times ASD's ACSC notified critical infrastructure entities of potential malicious cyber activity in FY2024-25 : 190
As at FY2024-25. Source: ASD/ACSC, Annual Cyber Threat Report 2024-25 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Share of cyber security incidents ASD's ACSC responded to in FY2024-25 that involved critical infrastructure : 13%
As at FY2024-25. Source: ASD/ACSC, Annual Cyber Threat Report 2024-25 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Growth in publicly reported common vulnerabilities and exposures in FY2024-25 : 28%
As at FY2024-25. Source: ASD/ACSC, Annual Cyber Threat Report 2024-25 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Share of FY2024-25 incidents against critical infrastructure entities that involved DoS/DDoS, versus all incidents : 31%
As at FY2024-25. Source: ASD/ACSC, Annual Cyber Threat Report 2024-25 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
DoS/DDoS incidents ASD's ACSC responded to in FY2024-25 : 200
As at FY2024-25. Source: ASD/ACSC, Annual Cyber Threat Report 2024-25 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Incidents associated with attacks on edge devices observed by ASD's ACSC in FY2024-25, and the share that succeeded : 120
As at FY2024-25. Source: ASD/ACSC, Annual Cyber Threat Report 2024-25 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Calls received by the Australian Cyber Security Hotline in FY2024-25 : 42,500
As at FY2024-25. Source: ASD/ACSC, Annual Cyber Threat Report 2024-25 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Times ASD's ACSC notified entities of potentially malicious cyber activity in FY2024-25 : 1,700
As at FY2024-25. Source: ASD/ACSC, Annual Cyber Threat Report 2024-25 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Malicious domains blocked by the Australian Protective Domain Name System in FY2024-25 : 334 million
As at FY2024-25. Source: ASD/ACSC, Annual Cyber Threat Report 2024-25 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Share of incidents reported to ASD's ACSC in which phishing was recorded : 60%
As at FY2024-25. Source: ASD/ACSC, Annual Cyber Threat Report 2024-25 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Share of FY2024-25 ransomware incidents discovered because ASD's ACSC warned the entity first : 39%
As at FY2024-25. Source: ASD/ACSC, Annual Cyber Threat Report 2024-25 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Share of ASD's ACSC incident responses in FY2024-25 that included ransomware : 11%
As at FY2024-25. Source: ASD/ACSC, Annual Cyber Threat Report 2024-25 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Cyber security incidents ASD responded to (an 11% increase) : over 1,200
As at FY2024-25. Source: ASD Annual Cyber Threat Report 2024-25 . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Average self-reported cost of cybercrime per report for a large business (up 219% year-on-year) : $202,700
As at FY2024-25. Source: ASD Annual Cyber Threat Report 2024-25 . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Average self-reported cost of cybercrime per report for a medium business (up 55% year-on-year) : $97,200
As at FY2024-25. Source: ASD Annual Cyber Threat Report 2024-25 . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Average self-reported cost of cybercrime per report for a small business (up 14% year-on-year) : $56,600
As at FY2024-25. Source: ASD Annual Cyber Threat Report 2024-25 . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Cybercrime reports Australians made to ReportCyber (about one every 6 minutes) : over 84,700
As at FY2024-25. Source: ASD Annual Cyber Threat Report 2024-25 . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Ransomware incidents ASD responded to : 138
As at FY2024-25. Source: ASD Annual Cyber Threat Report 2024-25 . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Annual turnover threshold from which Australian businesses must report ransomware payments under the mandatory regime that began 30 May 2025 (critical infrastructure entities also covered) : $3 million or more
As at 2025. Source: ASD/ACSC, Annual Cyber Threat Report 2024-25 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
SOCI Act deadline to notify ASD's ACSC of a critical cyber incident with a significant impact on the availability of a critical infrastructure asset : 12 hours
As at 2026. Source: ASD/ACSC, Report a cyber security incident . Verified 16 Sept 2026
SOCI Act deadline to notify ASD's ACSC of a cyber incident with a relevant impact on a critical infrastructure asset : 72 hours
As at 2026. Source: ASD/ACSC, Report a cyber security incident . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Payment term for eInvoices received by Australian Government agencies under the Supplier Pay On-Time policy, from 1 July 2022 : 5 days
As at 2022. Source: ATO, eInvoicing news and resources . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Instant asset write-off limit for small businesses (aggregated turnover under $10 million) for assets first used or installed ready for use from 1 July 2023 : $20,000
As at 2025-26. Source: ATO, Instant asset write-off for eligible businesses . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Australian businesses registered on the Peppol eInvoicing network : over 400,000
As at 2026. Source: ATO, About eInvoicing . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Period Australian businesses must keep most business records : 5 years
As at 2026. Source: ATO, Overview of record-keeping rules for business . Verified 11 Oct 2026
Australian online shoppers already using AI for shopping advice (6 in 10 are comfortable using AI) : 32%
As at 2025. Source: Australia Post eCommerce Report 2026 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Number of Australian households shopping online : 9.8 million
As at 2025. Source: Australia Post eCommerce Report 2026 . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Australian shoppers using marketplace apps, compared with 78% using retailer websites : 69%
As at 2025. Source: Australia Post eCommerce Report 2026 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Total amount Australian shoppers spent online in the calendar year (up 14% year-on-year) : $82.6 billion
As at 2025. Source: Australia Post eCommerce Report 2026 . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Millennials buying online once a week or more, against an average of 35% across all shoppers : 47%
As at 2025. Source: Australia Post eCommerce Report 2026 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Date AML/CTF regulation extends to 'tranche 2' entities (real estate, lawyers, accountants, conveyancers, dealers in precious metals and virtual asset service providers) : 1 July 2026
As at 2026. Source: AUSTRAC, About the AML/CTF reforms . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Number of critical infrastructure sectors covered by the Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018 (SOCI Act) : 11 sectors
As at 2026. Source: Department of Home Affairs, Cyber and Infrastructure Security Centre, SOCI Act 2018 overview . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Average revenue growth Australian businesses reported for each AI-enabled solution implemented : $361,315
As at 2022-23. Source: CSIRO / National AI Centre, AI ecosystem report (2023) . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Default licence for Australian Government public data under the Public Data Policy Statement : Creative Commons By Attribution
As at 2015. Source: Australian Government Public Data Policy Statement (7 December 2015) . Verified 29 Sept 2026
Minimum publication standard for Australian Government data under the Public Data Policy Statement: machine-readable, with freely available API access, kept up to date in an automated way : machine-readable with API access
As at 2015. Source: Australian Government Public Data Policy Statement (7 December 2015) . Verified 29 Sept 2026
Default release position for non-sensitive Australian Government data under the Public Data Policy Statement : open by default
As at 2015. Source: Australian Government Public Data Policy Statement (7 December 2015) . Verified 29 Sept 2026
Date the Australian Government Public Data Policy Statement declared government data a strategic national resource for growing the economy, improving service delivery and transforming policy outcomes : 7 December 2015
As at 2015. Source: Australian Government Public Data Policy Statement (7 December 2015) . Verified 29 Sept 2026
myIDs (Australian Government Digital ID) held one year after the Digital ID Act 2024 commenced : 15 million
As at December 2025. Source: Minister for Finance media release (December 2025) . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Australian Government funding for the network of AI Adopt Centres that help small and medium enterprises adopt AI : $17 million
As at 2026. Source: DISR, Australian Government response to the Senate Select Committee on Adopting AI (2026) . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Number of guardrails in the Australian Voluntary AI Safety Standard : 10 guardrails
As at 2024. Source: Department of Industry, Science and Resources . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Australian Government funding over four years from 2025-26 to establish the Australian AI Safety Institute ($7.9 million per year ongoing from 2029-30) : $29.8 million
As at 2025-26. Source: DISR, Australian Government response to the Senate Select Committee on Adopting AI (2026) . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Number of essential practices in the Guidance for AI Adoption (published 21 October 2025), which evolves the Voluntary AI Safety Standard : 6 essential practices
As at 2025. Source: DISR, Voluntary AI Safety Standard . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Launch date of the Australian Government's National AI Plan : 2 December 2025
As at 2025. Source: DISR, National AI Plan . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Effective date of version 2.0 of the Australian Government Policy for the responsible use of AI in government (v1.1 took effect 1 September 2024) : 15 December 2025
As at 2025. Source: DTA, Policy for the responsible use of AI in government v2.0 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Number of standards Australian Government agencies must comply with under the Digital Experience Policy : 4 standards
As at 2026. Source: DTA, Digital Experience Policy . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Number of criteria in the Australian Government Digital Inclusion Standard : 5 criteria
As at 2026. Source: DTA, Digital Inclusion Standard . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Number of criteria in the Australian Government Digital Service Standard : 10 criteria
As at 2026. Source: DTA, Digital Service Standard . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Date the whole-of-government Digital Experience Policy took effect (supported by four standards) : 1 January 2025
As at 2025. Source: DTA, Digital Experience Policy . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Web accessibility conformance level (WCAG 2.1 Level AA) required for Australian Government digital content : WCAG 2.1 AA
As at 2025. Source: Australian Government Style Manual (DTA) . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Minimum age below which age-restricted social media platforms must take reasonable steps to prevent Australians holding accounts, from 10 December 2025 : under the age of 16
As at 2025. Source: eSafety Commissioner, Social media age restrictions . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Maximum court-imposed fine for corporations that fail to take reasonable steps under the social media minimum age law (300,000 penalty units) : $109.2 million
As at 2026. Source: eSafety Commissioner, Social media age restrictions . Verified 21 Oct 2026
Date the National framework for the assurance of artificial intelligence in government was agreed and released by the Data and Digital Ministers Meeting : 21 June 2024
As at 2024. Source: Department of Finance, National framework for the assurance of artificial intelligence in government . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Date the Cyber Security Act 2024, Australia's first standalone cyber security legislation, received Royal Assent : 29 November 2024
As at 2024. Source: Department of Home Affairs, Cyber Security Act . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Start date of mandatory ransomware payment reporting under the Cyber Security Act 2024 : 30 May 2025
As at 2025. Source: Department of Home Affairs, Cyber Security Act . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Share of assessed occupations in national shortage on the 2025 Occupation Shortage List (down from 36% in 2023 and 33% in 2024) : 29%
As at 2025. Source: Jobs and Skills Australia, 2025 Occupation Shortage List . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Share of Australia's workforce in occupations with high automation exposure to generative AI (Jobs and Skills Australia Gen AI Capacity Study, as cited by DISR) : only 4%
As at 2025. Source: DISR, Australian Government response to the Senate Select Committee on Adopting AI (2026), citing Jobs and Skills Australia . Verified 16 Sept 2026
myGov accounts reported in the Australian Government response to the myGov User Audit : more than 26 million
As at 2023. Source: Australian Government response to the myGov User Audit Report (2023) . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Date to which the National Archives' Building trust in the public record information management policy (in force from 1 January 2021) has been extended : 31 December 2028
As at 2026. Source: National Archives of Australia, Building trust in the public record . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Australian small and medium enterprises currently adopting AI, National AI Centre AI Adoption Tracker (up 5% on the previous quarter) : 41%
As at Q1 2025. Source: Minister for Industry and Innovation media release, Australian AI Adoption Tracker (June 2025) . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Share of Australian private AI companies employing fewer than 50 staff : 85%
As at 2024. Source: National AI Centre, Australia's artificial intelligence ecosystem: growth and opportunities . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Hiring organisations in Australia that sought workers with AI-related skills in 2024 (483 organisations, 2.7%, in 2015) : 1,532 organisations (3.8% of hiring organisations)
As at 2024. Source: National AI Centre, Australia's artificial intelligence ecosystem: growth and opportunities . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Share of Australian job postings requiring technical AI-related skills (0.2% in 2015) : 0.9%
As at 2024. Source: National AI Centre, Australia's artificial intelligence ecosystem: growth and opportunities . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Objective of the NSW Government Open Data Policy: accelerate the use of data to derive new insights for better public services : better public services
As at 2016. Source: NSW Government Open Data Policy 2016 . Verified 29 Sept 2026
Areas in which the NSW Government Open Data Policy says open data has a significant impact: improving government, empowering citizens, creating opportunity and solving problems : four key areas
As at 2016. Source: NSW Government Open Data Policy 2016 . Verified 29 Sept 2026
Australians who want conditions in place (such as a right to human review) before AI is used to make a decision that might affect them : 96%
As at 2023. Source: OAIC Australian Community Attitudes to Privacy Survey 2023 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Australians who consider a right to human review essential before an organisation uses AI to make a decision about them (71% want to be told AI is being used) : 73%
As at 2023. Source: OAIC Australian Community Attitudes to Privacy Survey 2023 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Australians comfortable with businesses using AI and their personal information to make decisions about them (20% for government agencies) : 15%
As at 2023. Source: OAIC Australian Community Attitudes to Privacy Survey 2023 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Commencement date of the Privacy Act obligation to disclose automated decision-making in privacy policies (Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2024) : 10 December 2026
As at 2026. Source: OAIC, Consultation on guidance for transparency in automated decision making . Verified 16 Sept 2026
APP 1 — Open and transparent management of personal information (Australian Privacy Principle) : APP 1
As at 2026. Source: OAIC, Australian Privacy Principles quick reference . Verified 25 Aug 2026
APP 3 — Collection of solicited personal information (Australian Privacy Principle) : APP 3
As at 2026. Source: OAIC, Australian Privacy Principles quick reference . Verified 25 Aug 2026
APP 6 — Use or disclosure of personal information (Australian Privacy Principle) : APP 6
As at 2026. Source: OAIC, Australian Privacy Principles quick reference . Verified 25 Aug 2026
APP 8 — Cross-border disclosure of personal information (Australian Privacy Principle) : APP 8
As at 2026. Source: OAIC, Australian Privacy Principles quick reference . Verified 25 Aug 2026
APP 10 — Quality of personal information (Australian Privacy Principle) : APP 10
As at 2026. Source: OAIC, Australian Privacy Principles quick reference . Verified 25 Aug 2026
APP 11 — Security of personal information (Australian Privacy Principle) : APP 11
As at 2026. Source: OAIC, Australian Privacy Principles quick reference . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Number of Australian Privacy Principles under the Privacy Act 1988 : 13 APPs
As at 2026. Source: Office of the Australian Information Commissioner . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Australians who would like businesses to do more to protect their personal information : 92%
As at 2023. Source: OAIC Australian Community Attitudes to Privacy Survey 2023 (infographic) . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Statutory deadline for the OAIC to register the Children's Online Privacy Code : 10 December 2026
As at 2026. Source: OAIC, Children's Online Privacy Code . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Share of Australian data breaches caused by human error : 37%
As at 2025-H1. Source: OAIC Notifiable Data Breaches Report January–June 2025 . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Share of Australian data breaches caused by malicious or criminal attack : 59%
As at 2025-H1. Source: OAIC Notifiable Data Breaches Report January–June 2025 . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Data breach notifications received by the OAIC under the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme : 532
As at 2025-H1. Source: OAIC Notifiable Data Breaches Report January–June 2025 . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Australians told by an organisation that their personal information was involved in a data breach in the prior 12 months : 47%
As at 2023. Source: OAIC Australian Community Attitudes to Privacy Survey 2023 . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Australians who feel in control of their data privacy : 32%
As at 2023. Source: OAIC Australian Community Attitudes to Privacy Survey 2023 (infographic) . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Maximum civil penalty for a body corporate for serious or repeated interference with privacy (Privacy Act s 13G, as amended 2022) : The greater of $50 million, 3x the benefit, or 30% of adjusted turnover
As at 2026. Source: Office of the Australian Information Commissioner . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Time an entity has to assess a suspected eligible data breach under the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme : 30 days
As at 2026. Source: OAIC, Notifiable Data Breaches scheme . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Average number of individuals affected per cyber-incident data breach notified Jan-Jun 2025 : just over 10,000
As at 2025-H1. Source: OAIC, Notifiable Data Breach statistics January to June 2025 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Share of notifiable data breaches Jan-Jun 2025 reported by the health sector, the most of any sector (finance 14%, Australian Government 13%) : 18%
As at 2025-H1. Source: OAIC, Notifiable Data Breach statistics January to June 2025 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Data breaches notified to the OAIC in 2025 attributable to malicious or criminal activity (health service providers the most affected sector, 19%) : 716
As at 2025. Source: OAIC media release, Data breach notifications increase to all-time high in 2025 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Data breach notifications received by the OAIC in calendar 2025, the highest since the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme began (up 8% on 2024) : 1,205
As at 2025. Source: OAIC media release, Data breach notifications increase to all-time high in 2025 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Australians who see the protection of their personal information as a major concern in their life : 62%
As at 2023. Source: OAIC Australian Community Attitudes to Privacy Survey 2023 . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Annual turnover at or below which a business is generally a small business exempt from the Australian Privacy Principles (subject to exceptions) : $3 million annual turnover
As at 2026. Source: Office of the Australian Information Commissioner . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Commencement date of the statutory tort for serious invasions of privacy under the Privacy Act : 10 June 2025
As at 2025. Source: OAIC, Statutory tort for serious invasions of privacy . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Australians who want more control over the collection and use of their personal information : 84%
As at 2023. Source: OAIC Australian Community Attitudes to Privacy Survey 2023 . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Productivity Commission estimate of what AI will add to Australian economic activity over the next decade : more than $116 billion
As at 2025. Source: Productivity Commission, Harnessing data and digital technology interim report (2025) . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Productivity Commission estimate of annual productivity gains from improving people's ability to access data that relates to them : as much as $10 billion a year
As at 2025. Source: Productivity Commission, Harnessing data and digital technology interim report (2025) . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Decline in Australian labour productivity over the year to March 2025 : 1.0%
As at year to March 2025. Source: Productivity Commission, Quarterly productivity bulletin June 2025 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Days for large businesses to pay 95 per cent of small business invoices, January to June 2025 (up from 58 days) : 64 days
As at January-June 2025. Source: Payment Times Reporting Regulator, Regulator's update January 2026 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Average common payment terms large businesses offer small business suppliers, July to December 2025 (stable over three reporting cycles) : 29 days
As at July-December 2025. Source: Payment Times Reporting Regulator, Regulator's update August 2026 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Buy now pay later share of Australian retail payments : 2 per cent
As at 2025. Source: RBA Review of Payments System Regulation 2026, Issues Paper (June 2026) . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Share of Australian consumer payments (by number) made with cards, down from 76 per cent in the 2022 survey : 73 per cent
As at 2025. Source: RBA Bulletin — Consumer Payment Behaviour in Australia (2025 Consumer Payments Survey) . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Share of Australian consumer payments (by number) made in cash (about 13% in 2022) : 15 per cent
As at 2025. Source: RBA Bulletin April 2026, Cash Use in Australia (2025 Consumer Payments Survey) . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Share of all Australian consumer payments made by cheque : 0.02 per cent
As at 2025. Source: RBA Bulletin May 2026, Consumer Payment Behaviour in Australia (2025 Consumer Payments Survey) . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Contactless card payments as a share of in-person card transactions in Australia : 95%
As at 2022. Source: RBA Bulletin: Consumer Payment Behaviour in Australia (2022 Consumer Payments Survey) . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Share of Australian card payments made with a mobile device rather than a physical card (up from 31% in 2022) : 40 per cent
As at 2025. Source: RBA Bulletin May 2026, Consumer Payment Behaviour in Australia (2025 Consumer Payments Survey) . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Share of all Australian card payments (by number) made through Apple Pay, Google Pay and Samsung Pay : 45 per cent
As at December 2025. Source: RBA Review of Payments System Regulation 2026, Issues Paper (June 2026) . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Share of Australian consumers who used a mobile device to make a contactless payment during the survey week (35% in 2022) : 43 per cent
As at 2025. Source: RBA Bulletin May 2026, Consumer Payment Behaviour in Australia (2025 Consumer Payments Survey) . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Share of all consumer payments (by number) made online in Australia (18% in 2022, 4% in 2007) : 20 per cent
As at 2025. Source: RBA Bulletin May 2026, Consumer Payment Behaviour in Australia (2025 Consumer Payments Survey) . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Australian adults who read at literacy level 1 to 2, a low level (Style Manual, citing ABS PIAAC data) : about 44%
As at 2011-12. Source: Australian Government Style Manual, Literacy and access . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Reading level the Australian Government Style Manual tells writers to check content against (reading level 2, Australian year 7 equivalent) : year 7
As at 2026. Source: Australian Government Style Manual, Literacy and access . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Average sentence length the Australian Government Style Manual recommends (long sentences no more than 25 words) : 15 words
As at 2026. Source: Australian Government Style Manual, How people read . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Potential annual contribution of generative AI to the Australian economy by 2030 : up to $115 billion a year
As at projected to 2030. Source: Tech Council of Australia & Microsoft, Australia's Generative AI Opportunity (2023) . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Share of Australian workers' task hours generative AI could automate and augment at current capability : 44%
As at 2023. Source: Tech Council of Australia & Microsoft, Australia's Generative AI Opportunity (2023) . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Total technology employment in Australia : close to 1 million
As at 2025. Source: Tech Council of Australia (2026) . Verified 25 Aug 2026
National target for the number of tech jobs in Australia by 2030 : 1.2 million
As at target for 2030. Source: Tech Council of Australia (2023) . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Australian tech sector contribution as a share of national GDP : 8.9%
As at 2025. Source: Tech Council of Australia (2026) . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Australian tech sector contribution to national GDP : $248.5 billion
As at 2025. Source: Tech Council of Australia (2026) . Verified 25 Aug 2026
Decline in cheque usage in Australia over the ten years to 2024 : 90 per cent
As at 2024. Source: Treasury Ministers media release, 18 November 2024, Ensuring the future of cash and next steps in phasing out cheques . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Date by which cheque issuance ceases under Australia's Cheques Transition Plan (acceptance ceases 30 September 2029) : 30 June 2028
As at 2024. Source: Treasury, Australia's Cheques Transition Plan (November 2024) . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Commencement date of the economy-wide ban on unfair trading practices and subscription traps (Competition and Consumer Amendment (Unfair Trading Practices) Act 2026) : 1 July 2027
As at 2026. Source: Treasury Ministers media release, 2 July 2026, Unfair trading tricks and traps to be banned . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Australians who are somewhat or very uncomfortable with AI-produced news : 54 per cent
As at 2025. Source: University of Canberra News & Media Research Centre, Digital News Report: Australia 2025 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Australians naming social media as their main source of news, overtaking online news (23 per cent) for the first time : 26 per cent
As at 2025. Source: University of Canberra News & Media Research Centre, Digital News Report: Australia 2025 . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Australians who expect AI to be regulated (only 35 percent believe there are enough safeguards in place) : 70 percent
As at 2023. Source: University of Queensland, Trust in Artificial Intelligence: A Global Study 2023 (UQ and KPMG) . Verified 16 Sept 2026
Australians who trust the use of AI at work (University of Queensland and KPMG Trust in AI global study) : 40 percent
As at 2023. Source: University of Queensland, Trust in Artificial Intelligence: A Global Study 2023 (UQ and KPMG) . Verified 16 Sept 2026