Australian Government IDs

Comprehensive Australian government identifier detection. Covers tax, healthcare, immigration, welfare, education, and business identifiers.

Jurisdictions
au
Regulations
privacy-act-1988
Patterns
14

Patterns in this collection

Australian Branch Routing Code

Identifies Australian Bank State Branch (BSB) routing codes in 3-digit dash 3-digit or continuous 6-digit formats. Supports space separator. Requires corroborative financial-institution keywords.

Type
regex
Confidence
low

Australian Business Number

Detects Australian Business Numbers (ABNs), which are unique 11-digit identifiers issued by the Australian Business Register to entities carrying on a business in Australia. ABNs are commonly formatted as groups of 2-3-3-3 digits separated by spaces or hyphens. The ABN includes a check digit mechanism, but this pattern relies on format matching combined with corroborative evidence rather than algorithmic validation.

Type
regex
Confidence
medium

Centrelink Customer Reference Number

Detects candidate Centrelink Customer Reference Numbers consisting of 9 digits followed by a letter. The bare shape is not unique and requires a CRN/Centrelink label for enforcement.

Type
regex
Confidence
low

Australian Citizenship Certificate

Detects Australian Citizenship Certificate number patterns including prefixed formats (ACC, CDM, ACS, CAS followed by 4-8 digits) and numeric-only formats (0 + 10 digits).

Type
regex
Confidence
medium

Australian Company Number

Detects Australian Company Number patterns. This pattern is based on a Microsoft Purview built-in sensitive information type. Users already running Purview may prefer to enable the built-in SIT directly, or use this version as a starting point for customisation.

Type
regex
Confidence
medium

Individual Healthcare Identifier

Detects Individual Healthcare Identifier (IHI) patterns. The IHI is a 16-digit number starting with the prefix 800360; the official format carries a Luhn check digit (not enforced here).

Type
regex
Confidence
medium

Australian Medicare Number

Detects Australian Medicare card numbers, which are issued to Australian citizens and permanent residents for access to subsidised healthcare under the Medicare system. The number consists of 10 digits: the first digit is between 2 and 6, followed by 8 additional digits and a single check digit. Numbers are commonly formatted as groups of 4-5-1 digits separated by spaces or hyphens.

Type
regex
Confidence
medium

Medicare Provider Number

Detects Medicare Provider Number patterns. An 8-character code consisting of 6 digits, a location character, and a check character. Validated by location and check character sets.

Type
regex
Confidence
medium

Australian Driver's Licence Number

Discovery-only compatibility coverage for Australian driver's licence number candidates across all states and territories. The stable au-motor-vehicle-permit slug is retained for catalogue, collection, workbook, and package compatibility. State and territory enforcement belongs to the eight au-*-driver-licence-number SITs. Microsoft Purview tenants can instead select the free built-in Australia Driver's License Number entity (1cbbc8f5-9216-4392-9eb5-5ac2298d1356); this compatibility pattern is not a custom clone of that built-in.

Type
regex
Confidence
low

NDIS Participant Number

Detects NDIS Participant Number patterns. A 9-digit number starting with the prefix 43.

Type
regex
Confidence
low

PBS Prescriber Number

Detects PBS Prescriber Number patterns. A 7-digit number whose check digit uses weights [0,5,8,4,2,1], mod 11 (checksum NOT enforced in this regex-only pattern; structural detection only).

Type
regex
Confidence
low

Australian Taxation Identifier

Identifies Australian Tax File Numbers (TFNs) — unique nine-digit identifiers issued by the Australian Taxation Office. Uses an inline mod-11 Checksum validator with AllDigitsSameFilter and TextMatchFilter to exclude known test values.

Type
regex
Confidence
high

Australian Passport Number

Identifies candidate Australian passport numbers using a broad one- or two-letter prefix followed by seven digits. The regex does not validate an issued passport series; Australian travel-document and issuing-nation evidence are required for enforcement.

Type
regex
Confidence
low

Unique Student Identifier

Detects Unique Student Identifier (USI) patterns. A 10-character alphanumeric code (uppercase letters and digits) mandatory since January 2023 for higher education in Australia. The Purview design inventories the broad bare shape at 65, enforces a labelled value in education context at 75, and reserves 85 for labelled values with authoritative USI/VET record context.

Type
regex
Confidence
low