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The register
Link verification pass, 20 August 2026. Every row that had not been tested against its live source has now been tested: the Australian Retailers Association row (whose publisher this register previously named incorrectly as the Australian Retail Council), the National Retail Association row, and the ABS media release, which is the one ABS release cited by the industry files rather than by the fact check. All three hold. The Sydney Children's Hospitals Network row now carries a public URL and has lost the one claim that could not be confirmed.
| Publisher | Year | What it actually measures | Read it | Used on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Bureau of Statistics | 2026 | Characteristics of Australian Business 2024–25, released 25 June 2026. AI use by Australian businesses: 12% of all businesses, up from 1% in 2022–23; about 11% of small and micro; 19% of innovation-active small businesses against 4% of those that are not. By division: 3% agriculture, forestry and fishing; 9% manufacturing; 12% administrative and support services; 18% mining; 24% professional, scientific and technical services. Also: 59% reported supply-chain disruption; 51% used social media; 35% reported a skills shortage, of whom 16% said recruitment was too slow. Verified against the live source 20 August 2026. | ABS source | Homepage §8 · industry pages §7, all 12 |
| Australian Bureau of Statistics | 2026 | Media release: business adoption of artificial intelligence accelerates 2024–25, released 25 June 2026. Around 12% of businesses overall; about 11% of small and micro; 19% of innovation-active small businesses against 4% of those that are not; 35% large and 22% medium. Survey of nearly 7,000 businesses, October 2025 to February 2026. Verified against the live source 20 August 2026. | ABS source | Homepage §8 · industry pages §7 |
| Australian Bureau of Statistics | 2026 | Counts of Australian Businesses to June 2026, released 18 August 2026. 2,814,778 actively trading businesses at 30 June 2026; construction up 3.4% in 2025–26. Verified against the live source 20 August 2026. | ABS source | Construction and trades §7 |
| Master Builders Australia | 2026 | Facts and stats, using ABS data: 59.1% of construction businesses have no employees; 98.5% have fewer than 20. About 1.5%, roughly 7,100 firms, have 20 or more. | Master Builders Australia source | Construction and trades §7 |
| Productivity Commission | 2025 | Harnessing data and digital technology, interim report. Average construction firm 2.7 employees excluding sole traders and owner-managers. | Productivity Commission source | Construction and trades §7 |
| Services Australia | 2025 | Annual Report 2024–25. 479.6 million digital Medicare transactions out of 480.6 million services processed. | Services Australia source | Healthcare and allied health §7 · the claim module page |
| Sydney Children's Hospitals Network | 2023 | "SCHN commits to 'Axe the Fax'", published 10 January 2023. States that "over 80 per cent of referrals to hospitals are still sent via fax, post or hand-delivered". The Network's own statement about hospital referrals generally, not a measured national figure and not a count of referrals to this Network; the page says so. Verified against the live source 20 August 2026. A companion claim about My Health Record connection rates for specialists was carried by the fact check, could not be confirmed against any public source, and has been removed from this register and from the healthcare industry page. | Sydney Children's Hospitals Network source | Healthcare and allied health §7 |
| Australian Institute of Health and Welfare | 2026 | General practice and primary care. 167.2 million GP attendances in 2024–25. | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare source | Healthcare and allied health §2 · wizard defaults |
| RACGP | 2025 | Health of the Nation 2025. 7,132 accredited general practices; 40,375 GPs by headcount; average practice 5.7 GPs by headcount, 4.2 FTE. | RACGP source | Healthcare and allied health §2 · wizard defaults |
| Australian Retailers Association | 2024 | Published 15 January 2024, reporting Salesforce State of Commerce: 80% of Australian ecommerce organisations using AI, 33% fully implemented, 47% experimenting, 14% evaluating. Methodology: 2,700 ecommerce practitioners, 6 October to 8 November 2023. Not an Australian 5 to 50 staff estimate, and the page says so. Verified against the live source 20 August 2026. | Australian Retailers Association source | Retail §7 |
| National Retail Association | 2024 | National Retail Survey, March 2024. Online survey of 350 businesses, two thirds of them SMEs, 43% in regional areas. Ecommerce adoption 5% regional and rural against 18% metro; 49% reported high or extreme transport and logistics cost pressure. Verified against the live source 20 August 2026. | National Retail Association source | Retail §7 |
| OAIC | 2026 | Consultation on guidance for transparency in automated decision-making. Privacy Act APP 1.7 to 1.9 commence 10 December 2026; the small business exemption does not apply to health service providers holding health information. | OAIC source | Trust §8 · Privacy |
| Department of Industry, Science and Resources | 2025 | Guidance for AI Adoption, which replaced the Voluntary AI Safety Standard on 21 October 2025. Voluntary; there is no binding AI-specific law in Australia as at August 2026. | Department of Industry, Science and Resources source | Trust §6 |
| ACMA | 2026 | Avoid sending spam. Spam Act 2003: express or inferred consent, accurate sender identification, functional free unsubscribe operative for 30 days. | ACMA source | Trust §8 · the message and review modules |
| Ahpra | 2026 | Registration renewal, annual on a fixed date per profession: 31 May nurses and midwives, 30 September medical practitioners, 30 November the other 14 professions. October 2024 guidance holds practitioners responsible for any AI used and requires documented informed consent before patient data is entered. | Ahpra source | Healthcare and allied health §8 · the credential module page |
| Fair Work Ombudsman | 2026 | Record-keeping obligations, annual leave loading guidance, and the award pay guides. Used to establish that a module has a real obligation behind it, never as an adoption figure. | Fair Work Ombudsman source | Module pages · industry pages §8 |
| Australian Taxation Office | 2026 | Tax invoice and business record-keeping requirements; super guarantee at 12% since 1 July 2025. | Australian Taxation Office source | Module pages · wizard defaults |
| Research gaps. Some of the 12 industries have no adoption figure of their own, so they have no industry row here and run the national small-business figure instead. The wizard's per-unit time defaults also each need a row and none can be supplied: no Australian source publishes minutes per booking, per claim or per referral, and there is no independent Australian dataset on small-business inbound call volumes. Those defaults ship as the visitor's own input with a suggested starting number, never as a cited industry figure. | ||||
Australian Bureau of Statistics
2026Characteristics of Australian Business 2024–25, released 25 June 2026. AI use by Australian businesses: 12% of all businesses, up from 1% in 2022–23; about 11% of small and micro; 19% of innovation-active small businesses against 4% of those that are not. By division: 3% agriculture, forestry and fishing; 9% manufacturing; 12% administrative and support services; 18% mining; 24% professional, scientific and technical services. Also: 59% reported supply-chain disruption; 51% used social media; 35% reported a skills shortage, of whom 16% said recruitment was too slow. Verified against the live source 20 August 2026.
ABS sourceUsed on: Homepage §8 · industry pages §7, all 12
Australian Bureau of Statistics
2026Media release: business adoption of artificial intelligence accelerates 2024–25, released 25 June 2026. Around 12% of businesses overall; about 11% of small and micro; 19% of innovation-active small businesses against 4% of those that are not; 35% large and 22% medium. Survey of nearly 7,000 businesses, October 2025 to February 2026. Verified against the live source 20 August 2026.
ABS sourceUsed on: Homepage §8 · industry pages §7
Australian Bureau of Statistics
2026Counts of Australian Businesses to June 2026, released 18 August 2026. 2,814,778 actively trading businesses at 30 June 2026; construction up 3.4% in 2025–26. Verified against the live source 20 August 2026.
ABS sourceUsed on: Construction and trades §7
Master Builders Australia
2026Facts and stats, using ABS data: 59.1% of construction businesses have no employees; 98.5% have fewer than 20. About 1.5%, roughly 7,100 firms, have 20 or more.
Master Builders Australia sourceUsed on: Construction and trades §7
Productivity Commission
2025Harnessing data and digital technology, interim report. Average construction firm 2.7 employees excluding sole traders and owner-managers.
Productivity Commission sourceUsed on: Construction and trades §7
Services Australia
2025Annual Report 2024–25. 479.6 million digital Medicare transactions out of 480.6 million services processed.
Services Australia sourceUsed on: Healthcare and allied health §7 · the claim module page
Sydney Children's Hospitals Network
2023"SCHN commits to 'Axe the Fax'", published 10 January 2023. States that "over 80 per cent of referrals to hospitals are still sent via fax, post or hand-delivered". The Network's own statement about hospital referrals generally, not a measured national figure and not a count of referrals to this Network; the page says so. Verified against the live source 20 August 2026. A companion claim about My Health Record connection rates for specialists was carried by the fact check, could not be confirmed against any public source, and has been removed from this register and from the healthcare industry page.
Sydney Children's Hospitals Network sourceUsed on: Healthcare and allied health §7
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
2026General practice and primary care. 167.2 million GP attendances in 2024–25.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare sourceUsed on: Healthcare and allied health §2 · wizard defaults
RACGP
2025Health of the Nation 2025. 7,132 accredited general practices; 40,375 GPs by headcount; average practice 5.7 GPs by headcount, 4.2 FTE.
RACGP sourceUsed on: Healthcare and allied health §2 · wizard defaults
Australian Retailers Association
2024Published 15 January 2024, reporting Salesforce State of Commerce: 80% of Australian ecommerce organisations using AI, 33% fully implemented, 47% experimenting, 14% evaluating. Methodology: 2,700 ecommerce practitioners, 6 October to 8 November 2023. Not an Australian 5 to 50 staff estimate, and the page says so. Verified against the live source 20 August 2026.
Australian Retailers Association sourceUsed on: Retail §7
National Retail Association
2024National Retail Survey, March 2024. Online survey of 350 businesses, two thirds of them SMEs, 43% in regional areas. Ecommerce adoption 5% regional and rural against 18% metro; 49% reported high or extreme transport and logistics cost pressure. Verified against the live source 20 August 2026.
National Retail Association sourceUsed on: Retail §7
OAIC
2026Consultation on guidance for transparency in automated decision-making. Privacy Act APP 1.7 to 1.9 commence 10 December 2026; the small business exemption does not apply to health service providers holding health information.
OAIC sourceUsed on: Trust §8 · Privacy
Department of Industry, Science and Resources
2025Guidance for AI Adoption, which replaced the Voluntary AI Safety Standard on 21 October 2025. Voluntary; there is no binding AI-specific law in Australia as at August 2026.
Department of Industry, Science and Resources sourceUsed on: Trust §6
ACMA
2026Avoid sending spam. Spam Act 2003: express or inferred consent, accurate sender identification, functional free unsubscribe operative for 30 days.
ACMA sourceUsed on: Trust §8 · the message and review modules
Ahpra
2026Registration renewal, annual on a fixed date per profession: 31 May nurses and midwives, 30 September medical practitioners, 30 November the other 14 professions. October 2024 guidance holds practitioners responsible for any AI used and requires documented informed consent before patient data is entered.
Ahpra sourceUsed on: Healthcare and allied health §8 · the credential module page
Fair Work Ombudsman
2026Record-keeping obligations, annual leave loading guidance, and the award pay guides. Used to establish that a module has a real obligation behind it, never as an adoption figure.
Fair Work Ombudsman sourceUsed on: Module pages · industry pages §8
Australian Taxation Office
2026Tax invoice and business record-keeping requirements; super guarantee at 12% since 1 July 2025.
Australian Taxation Office sourceUsed on: Module pages · wizard defaults
Research gaps. Some of the 12 industries have no adoption figure of their own, so they have no industry row here and run the national small-business figure instead. The wizard's per-unit time defaults also each need a row and none can be supplied: no Australian source publishes minutes per booking, per claim or per referral, and there is no independent Australian dataset on small-business inbound call volumes. Those defaults ship as the visitor's own input with a suggested starting number, never as a cited industry figure.
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How a figure is updated or retired
When a publisher issues a newer release, the entry is updated and the old value stays beside it with the date it stopped being current. A figure we can no longer stand behind comes off the site the same day it is retired here, not left to age.
Two standing rules. A figure that measures a wider population than the page it sits on says so in the sentence, not in a note underneath. And a claim the research marks unverified does not appear on the site at all, hedged or otherwise.