Australian Street Locality Reference

Identifies Australian physical addresses using structural street-number + street-name regex combined with road-type, state/territory, and postcode corroborative evidence. Covers the implemented road-type endings: the standard abbreviated set plus the declared extended endings (Rise, View, Gardens, Loop, Trail, Track, Pass, Heights) — not the full GNAF classification list.

Type

regex

Engine

universal

Confidence

low

Confidence justification

Low confidence standalone: street number + name is too broad without road-type and geographic context. Multi-evidence tiers with postcode validation improve precision.

Detection quality

Mixed

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

Scope

wide

Risk rating

3

Platform compatibility

Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Compatible, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Compatible, Netskope: Unsupported

Pattern

\b\d{1,5}[A-Za-z]?\s+[A-Za-z][A-Za-z\s'\-]{2,50}\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

street, road, avenue, drive, crescent, place, court, highway, parade, terrace, close, circuit, lane, way, Access, ACCS, Alley, [object Object], Alleyway, ALLY (+302 more)

Proximity: 500 characters

Should match

• 42 Wallaby Way Sydney NSW 2000 — Full address with street number, name, city, state, postcode
• 7B George Street — Low-tier probe - street structure without locality evidence
• 7B George Street Sydney — Medium-tier probe - street structure with a recognised metro locality
• 123 Queen Street Melbourne VIC 3000 — Melbourne address with state and postcode
• Unit 4, 12 Ocean Rise, Redcliffe QLD 4020 — Extended road-type ending (Rise) with full geography; the primary begins matching at the street number
• Level 2, 7B George Street, Sydney NSW 2000 — Level-prefixed address; the existing primary matches from the 7B street number without prefix grammar

Should not match

• quarterly financial report for fiscal year 2024 — Business text with no address elements
• the meeting is scheduled for next Tuesday morning — Scheduling text with no address terminology
• Road to success in 2024 — Road used metaphorically
• Ocean levels rise by 12 centimetres. — Prose containing rise without number-name-roadtype address structure

Known false positives

• Street names in business names or landmarks. Mitigation: Require structural patterns with road-type and geographic corroboration.
• Navigation references mentioning road types without actual addresses. Mitigation: Use proximity-based evidence to ensure numeric components appear alongside keywords.

References

• Australia Physical Addresses entity definition - Microsoft Learn