Australian Person-Linked Residential Address

Detects a populated Australian residential street address linked to a labelled person. Bare address structure is available for discovery, the balanced tier requires person and residential context plus Australian geography, and the strict tier requires state and postcode corroboration.

Type: regex
Engine: boost_regex
Confidence: medium
Confidence justification: Medium confidence: enforcement requires a populated Australian street structure, a labelled person, an explicit residential relationship, and geographic corroboration. The high tier additionally requires complete state/postcode evidence, while bare structures remain discovery-only.
Jurisdictions: au
Regulations: AML/CTF Act (Cth), HRIPA (Cth), IPA 2009 (Qld), My Health Records Act 2012 (Cth), NDB Scheme (Cth), Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), TIA Act 1979 (Cth)
Frameworks: ISO 27001, ISO 27701
Data categories: pii, contact-information, location
Scope: narrow
Risk rating: 6
Platform compatibility: Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Compatible, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported

Pattern

(?i)\b\d{1,5}[A-Z]?(?:\s*[-/]\s*\d{1,5}[A-Z]?)?\s+[A-Z][A-Z'-]{1,30}(?:\s+[A-Z][A-Z'-]{0,30}){0,5}\s+(?:Street|St|Road|Rd|Avenue|Ave|Drive|Dr|Place|Pl|Court|Ct|Crescent|Cres|Close|Cl|Lane|La|Way|Parade|Pde|Boulevard|Blvd|Terrace|Tce|Circuit|Cct|Highway|Hwy|Grove|Gv|Square|Sq|Esplanade|Esp|Rise|View|Gardens|Loop|Trail|Track|Pass|Heights)\b

Corroborative evidence keywords

resident, tenant, occupant, home address, residential address, principal place of residence, postcode, Access, ACCS, Alley, [object Object], Alleyway, ALLY, Amble, [object Object], Approach, APPR, Arcade, [object Object], Arterial (+16171 more)

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

7B George Street — Exact 65 probe - populated street structure without person or residential context
Resident: Alex Nguyen; residential address: 18 Church Street, Parramatta 2150 — Exact 75 probe - person-linked residence with locality and postcode but no state
Resident: Alex Nguyen; residential address: 18 Church Street, Parramatta NSW 2150 — Exact 85 probe - person-linked residence with state and postcode
Tenant: Grace Osei; principal place of residence: Unit 4, 12 Ocean Rise, Redcliffe QLD 4020 — Unit-prefixed person-linked Australian residence
Resident: Priya Sharma; residential address: 18 Boronia Street, Abbeywood QLD 4613 — Registry-locality high probe - non-major suburb corroborated by the consolidated suburbs and localities registry

Should not match

Resident: Alex Nguyen; residential address: — Person and residential labels without a populated address
Contact: Alex Nguyen; office address: 18 Church Street, Parramatta NSW 2150 — Person-linked business address without a residential relationship must not enforce
The conference speaker is Alex Nguyen at 200 George Street, Sydney NSW 2000 — Named person near a public venue without labelled person or residential relationship
Resident: Full Name; residential address: 18 Church Street, Parramatta NSW 2150 — A populated address with a blank-form name placeholder must not establish person linkage
Documentation example: Resident: Alex Nguyen; residential address: 18 Church Street, Parramatta NSW 2150 — Complete but explicitly documented example is excluded from enforcing tiers
The tenant rights guide explains how to update an address. — Residential topic without a populated address value

Known false positives

A person name and valid address can refer to a business contact, venue, or correspondence destination rather than a residence. Mitigation: Require an explicit resident, tenant, occupant, home-address, or place-of-residence relationship for enforcement.
Completed example records in forms, documentation, or training material can look genuine. Mitigation: Apply the shared template-exclusion NOT-group to the 75 and 85 tiers.