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