Australian research resources
(see main resources page for general links on philanthropy and international research)

At FR&C we specialise in prospect research on individuals, companies, and foundations for clients in charities, the arts and education.

The list below is a summary of research resources in Australia intended to assist not-for-profits wanting to know the key resources for prospect research in these areas. We decided to publish this for free here on our website to make the knowledge we've acquired in many years of prospect research available to Australian not-for-profits.  Resources you have to pay for are marked ($)

Note on business information:  many of these are excellent research resources, but many of them include a proportion of out of date information; we advise that wherever possible you always re-verify business directory information with a primary source, eg the website of the relevant company.

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 General resources for researching individuals and businesses
  
*  Who's Who in Australia, Who's Who in Business in Australia  ($)  - print and online
    http://www.connectweb.com.au
        
*  News aggregators ($):
    Lexis Nexis         http://www.lexisnexis.com.au/
    Factiva                 https://professional.dowjones.com/factiva/#services                                                                
    Newsbank          https://www.newsbank.com/
    PressReader       https://www.pressreader.com/
    Proquest              https://about.proquest.com/

*  Giftsearch ($) - FR&C's own searchable database of donations recorded in the public domain in  Australia  - over 750,000              recorded donations with a cumulative value of over $15 billion                                
​    www.fundraisingresearch.com.au

*  Online news archives ($)- Newscorp and Fairfax archives can be searched on their websites

*  Newspapers.com ($): international digital archive. Includes 4 Australian newspapers.              
​    https://www.newspapers.com/

*  Trove is a search tool developed by the National Library of Australia to provide access to a range of digital collections held by        the NLA as well as the various State Libraries in Australia.  A range of digital Australian newspapers, as well as photographs,          archived websites, and archival materials are available    
    http://trove.nla.gov.au

*  Web search engines, especially Google, bing, and dogpile. Don't rely only on Google.


Researching businesses

*  Connect4 ($) - ASX listed company annual reports, director and remuneration information
     http://www.connect4.com.au

*  Ibis ($) -   In-depth research on top 2000 Australian companies                                                  
    https://www.ibisworld.com.au

*  Company 360 ($) offers in-depth business information on Australia’s leading 50,000
    private and public companies. Often useful for otherwise hard to find private company information
    but accuracy and up-to-date-ness varies.  Publisher illion is the former Dun & Bradstreet
    http://www.company360.com.au

*  Morningstar DatAnalysis($)
    https://datanalysis.morningstar.com.au/

*  Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) ($) - company director listings, 
    filed company documents and financials
    https://asicconnect.asic.gov.au/

*  Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) website – public companies   
    http://www.asx.com.au       
   
*  Companies’ own annual reports and websites



Researching individuals
                                                                                                                               
*  ASIC ($) - company directors listings  https://asicconnect.asic.gov.au/ 

* CITEC Confirm ($) - Data broker - includes a personal extract search                                                             

*  Linkedin – increasingly useful for researching professionals    www.linkedin.com                

*  Australian Honours Lists
    https://www.pmc.gov.au/government/its-honour

*  The Australian Governor General's website has lists of all Australian honours awarded,  with some
    excellent biographical detail on awardees
    ​https://www.gg.gov.au/australian-honours-and-awards/australian-honours-lists

* List of living Australian Knights and Dames http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Australian_knights_and_dames
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*  ACNC – the federal Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission has a register of charities
    which includes many foundations and PAFs, often with trustee names, details of areas of interest, and assets.
​    http://www.acnc.gov.au/

*  Chief Executive Women    http://www.cew.org.au 

*  Prominent women: Australian Women’s Register               
     http://www.womenaustralia.info/browse.html 

* Australian government online directory including judiciary 
    https://www.directory.gov.au/
                    
*  Remuneration tribunal - public service remuneration
    http://www.remtribunal.gov.au 
                                                                               
*  Residential property ownership ($)
    https://online.nswlrs.com.au (NSW example)
 
* RP Data ($) - Property ownership - access and available information varies by state: https://www.corelogic.com.au/

*  Residential property prices: websites including onthehouse, domain, etc

​* Rural property  Graincentral lists recent rural property sales – lists sale price, land size, information about the land,
  and in  many cases, the buyer  https://www.graincentral.com/property-sales/results/

*  Forbes Rich List for Australia and New Zealand   www.forbes.com/lists
                                           
*  The Mayne Report Rich List – 1,500 names of Australians estimated to be worth more than  $20 million.
     Has some recent updates but last published in full about 2012
     www.maynereport.com/lists/index.html.
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*   AFR Rich 200  - and other AFR rich lists.  Formerly the BRW Rich List, the Rich 200 and other AFR lists are now published  by the  Australian Financial Review.
     https://www.afr.com/rich-list
 
* The Australian Rich 250 - launched in 2019, the Richest 250 is published in March each year
     https://www.theaustralian.com.au/topics/richest-250​

* Deceased - The Ryerson Index                                                     
    Contemporary death notices and obituaries in Australian newspapers
    www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nswsdps/dpsindex.htm

Additional resources for due diligence research:

*  Political donations - Australia
    http://www.aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/financial_disclosure/index.htm
    https://transparency.aec.gov.au/
    http://www.democracy4sale.org/
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* Directors’details and list of banned/disqualified directors
   ASIC company directors listings:    https://asicconnect.asic.gov.au/

*  Researching court cases:  AustLii: http://www.austlii.edu.au/
 
*  Shop Ethical! company and product research: https://guide.ethical.org.au
 
*  Anti-corruption Commissions by State:
    ICAC (NSW): https://www.icac.nsw.gov.au/
    ICAC (NT): https://icac.nt.gov.au/
    CCC (QLD): https://www.ccc.qld.gov.au/
    ICAC (SA): https://icac.sa.gov.au/
    Integrity Commission (TAS): https://www.integrity.tas.gov.au/
    IBAC (VIC): https://www.ibac.vic.gov.au/
    CCC (WA): https://www.ccc.wa.gov.au/
 
 *  Refinitiv World-Check One ($)
      https://www.refinitiv.com/en/products/world-check-kyc-screening/world-check-one-kyc-verification

   
Researching trusts, foundations and grants

*  ACNC – the federal Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission has a register of  charities which includes
    many foundations and PAFs, often with trustee names, details of areas of interest, and assets.
​    http://www.acnc
*  ATO list of DGRs (includes all PAFS)    http://www.abn.business.gov.au/DgrListing.aspx
​*  GEM Portal  - grants calendar ($) - tailored service to non-profits http://www.strategicgrants.com.au
*  PAF Guide: ($) Searchable database of PAFs and PuAFs:  https://pafguide.com.au

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