Data Portals/data.gov.au

data.gov.au

Australia's central open data catalog, aggregating datasets from federal, state, and territory governments, with extensive spatial coverage.

data.gov.au is the Australian Government's central catalog of open data, federating datasets from Commonwealth, state, and territory agencies. It includes a strong spatial component, with boundaries, addresses, environment, and statistical data widely available.

Most datasets are released under Creative Commons licensing, free to reuse with attribution. For authoritative national base data such as elevation and Earth observation, data.gov.au is complemented by Geoscience Australia.

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Commonwealth agencies plus state and territory governments, making it a single discovery point across Australian jurisdictions.

Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) is the most common licence, allowing free reuse with attribution; some datasets use other terms.

Geoscience Australia provides authoritative national elevation, geology, and Earth observation products, discoverable alongside data.gov.au.

Details

AgencyAustralian Government
LevelNational
RegionOceania
CoverageAustralia
LicenseCreative Commons / varies
Formats
CSVGeoJSONShapefileAPI
Update FrequencyContinuous
Categories
AustraliaNationalOpen Data
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