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Country brief

How identity verification works in Australia.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Australian identity fraud: deepfake and injection attacks on the neobank and crypto onboarding flows, state Driver Licence forgery across the 8 state / territory templates, and iGaming pressure as NSW, Victoria, and Northern Territory online wagering markets expand. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • AML/CTF Act 2006 + AML/CTF Rules
  • Privacy Act 1988 + Australian Privacy Principles (APPs)
  • APRA CPS 234 (Information Security)
  • APRA CPS 231 (Outsourcing)
  • ASIC RG 105 (AFS licensing)
  • Interactive Gambling Act 2001 (ACMA + state regulators)
  • FATF 40 recommendations
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Australia.

These are the supervisors a Australia verification flow has to answer to. One Didit hosted flow + one audit log covers every one of them — no separate integration per agency.
  • AUSTRAC

    Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre — administers the AML/CTF Act 2006 and AML/CTF Rules. Receives Suspicious Matter Reports (SMRs) and Threshold Transaction Reports (TTRs).

  • APRA

    Australian Prudential Regulation Authority — prudential supervisor for banks, insurers, friendly societies, and superannuation funds. Sets CPS 234 (Information Security) and CPS 231 (Outsourcing) standards relevant to identity-verification vendors.

  • ASIC

    Australian Securities and Investments Commission — corporate, markets, financial services, and consumer credit regulator. Maintains the ASIC Personal Name Register and administers the Australian Financial Services (AFS) licence regime.

  • OAIC

    Office of the Australian Information Commissioner — administers the Privacy Act 1988 and the Australian Privacy Principles. Notifiable Data Breaches scheme operator.

  • AGD (DVS / iDMatch)

    Attorney-General's Department — operates the Document Verification Service (DVS / iDMatch), the authoritative-source cross-check service available to regulated entities for every Australian credential type.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Australia database cross-check — composed on one workflow, billed per success, returned in one report.
01 · ID

Capture and read the ID.

Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.

  • state / territory Driver Licence, Australian Passport (with the chip read on e-Passports), Medicare Card, ImmiCard, Citizenship Certificate, Australian Visa, Centrelink Concession Card, and state-issued Birth / Marriage / Change-of-Name Certificates.
  • Returns the name, document number, date of birth, address, and state / territory of issue.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Driver Licence (8 state / territory templates)
  • Passport · Medicare · ImmiCard · Citizenship Certificate
  • Visa · Birth / Marriage / Change-of-Name Certificate
02 · Biometric

Match the face. Prove it's a real person..

Selfie confirmed live and matched against the ID portrait.

  • Duplicate check: 1:N face search across existing users. Free.
  • Active liveness ($0.15) for elevated-risk flows — user turns or blinks.
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Stage 02Match the face. Prove it's a real person.
  • Selfie on any phone or laptop camera
  • Mobile-handoff QR when the user starts on desktop
03 · AML

Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media.

Didit screens the user's name against the global pool of 1,300+ sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), and adverse-media lists, plus every named Australian regulatory watchlist (DFAT Consolidated Sanctions, Australian National Security Listed Terrorist Organisations, AUSTRAC Infringement Notices, AUSTRAC Warnings, plus the Department of Climate Change, Ministry of Justice, CASA, and ASIC enforcement registers).

Severity-scored. Ongoing monitoring ($0.07/user/yr) re-checks daily and fires a webhook on new hits.

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Stage 03Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media

Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media — see the docs for the full module surface.

04 · Registry

Cross-check against the DVS (iDMatch).

After the ID is captured, Didit runs the Document Verification Service (DVS / iDMatch) cross-check against the authoritative source for every Australian credential type — the same authoritative-source check AUSTRAC reporting entities expect.

  • The DVS Driver Licence check (aus_australia_driver_licence, $0.45, 100% coverage) returns full-match data from the issuing state / territory authority.
  • The DVS Passport (aus_australia_passport, $0.45, 100%), DVS Medicare Card (aus_australia_medicare_card, $0.45, 100%), DVS ImmiCard (aus_immicard, $0.45, 100%), DVS Citizenship Certificate (aus_citizenship_certificate, $0.45, 100%), DVS Visa (aus_australia_visa, $0.45, 100%), and DVS Centrelink Card (aus_centrelink_card, $0.45, 100%) all run on the same POST /v3/database-validation/ shape.
  • The Credit Bureau (aus_credit_bureau, $0.70, ~75%) and Electoral Roll (aus_electoral_roll, $0.45, 100%) layer on as the AUSTRAC-recognised electronic-data-source checks.
  • Lower-cost lookups — Birth Certificate (aus_birth_certificate, $0.04), Death Check (aus_death_check, $0.05), Consumer (aus_consumer, $0.06), Citizens (aus_citizens, $0.30), and Residential (aus_residential, $0.32) — round out the surface.
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Stage 04Cross-check against the DVS (iDMatch)

Cross-check against the DVS (iDMatch) — see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Australia document Didit accepts.

One row per accepted credential — flag, document name, document type. Live from the Didit Business Console.
Authoritative datasets

Civil-registry and AML coverage for Australia.

One card per dataset Didit cross-checks against — civil registries on the Database Validation API plus the global AML watchlist pool. Each card links to the technical docs.
aus_australia_driver_licence

DVS - Australia Driver Licence

Source: Attorney-General's Department Document Verification Service (DVS / iDMatch). $0.45 per successful query. End-user consent required. Coverage 100%.

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aus_australia_passport

DVS - Australia Passport

Source: Attorney-General's Department Document Verification Service (DVS / iDMatch). $0.45 per successful query. End-user consent required. Coverage 100%.

Read the API docs
aus_australia_medicare_card

DVS - Australia Medicare Card

Source: Attorney-General's Department Document Verification Service (DVS / iDMatch). $0.45 per successful query. End-user consent required. Coverage 100%.

Read the API docs
aus_immicard

Australia DVS - ImmiCard

Source: Attorney-General's Department Document Verification Service (DVS / iDMatch). $0.45 per successful query. End-user consent required. Coverage 100%.

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aus_citizenship_certificate

Australia DVS - Citizenship Certificate

Source: Attorney-General's Department Document Verification Service (DVS / iDMatch). $0.45 per successful query. End-user consent required. Coverage 100%.

Read the API docs
aus_australia_visa

DVS - Australia Visa

Source: Attorney-General's Department Document Verification Service (DVS / iDMatch). $0.45 per successful query. End-user consent required. Coverage 100%.

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aus_centrelink_card

Australia DVS - Centrelink Card

Source: Attorney-General's Department Document Verification Service (DVS / iDMatch). $0.45 per successful query. End-user consent required. Coverage 100%.

Read the API docs
aus_birth_certificate

Australia DVS - Birth Certificate

Source: Attorney-General's Department Document Verification Service (DVS / iDMatch). $0.04 per successful query. End-user consent required. Coverage 100%.

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aus_marriage_certificate

Australia DVS - Marriage Certificate

Source: Attorney-General's Department Document Verification Service (DVS / iDMatch). $0.45 per successful query. End-user consent required. Coverage 100%.

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aus_change_of_name_certificate

Australia DVS - Change of Name Certificate

Source: Attorney-General's Department Document Verification Service (DVS / iDMatch). $0.45 per successful query. End-user consent required. Coverage 100%.

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aus_travel_document

Australia DVS - Travel Document

Source: Attorney-General's Department Document Verification Service (DVS / iDMatch). $0.45 per successful query. End-user consent required. Coverage 100%.

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aus_vevo

Australia VEVO (Visa Entitlement Verification Online)

Source: Department of Home Affairs — VEVO. $0.32 per successful query. End-user consent required. Coverage 100%.

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aus_credit_bureau

Australia Credit Bureau

Source: Australian consumer credit bureau. $0.70 per successful query. End-user consent required. Coverage ~75%.

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aus_electoral_roll

Australia Electoral Roll

Source: Australian Electoral Commission Electoral Roll. $0.45 per successful query. End-user consent required. Coverage 100%.

Read the API docs
aus_citizens

Australia Citizens

Source: Australian civil records aggregator. $0.30 per successful query. Coverage ~55%.

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aus_residential

Australia Residential

Source: Australian residential identity aggregator. $0.32 per successful query. Coverage ~65%.

Read the API docs
aus_residential_lookup

Australia Residential Lookup

Source: Australian residential phone + address lookup. $0.32 per successful query. Coverage ~65%.

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aus_personal_name_register

Australia - ASIC Personal Name Register

Source: Australian Securities and Investments Commission. $0.12 per successful query. Coverage ~15%.

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aus_consumer

Australia Consumer

Source: Australian lead-generation consumer database. $0.06 per successful query. Coverage ~10%.

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aus_death_check

Australia Death Check (BDM)

Source: Australian state Births, Deaths and Marriages registries. $0.05 per successful query. Coverage 100%.

Read the API docs
aus_phone

Australia Phone

Source: Australian telco billing records. $0.12 per successful query. Coverage ~15%.

Read the API docs
aus_superannuation_payroll

Australia Superannuation & Payroll

Source: Australian superannuation and payroll registries. $0.67 per successful query. End-user consent required. Coverage ~50%.

Read the API docs
aus_tenancy_register

Australia - TICA Tenancy Register

Source: Tenancy Information Centre of Australia. $0.84 per successful query. Coverage ~25%.

Read the API docs
aml-screening

AML lists screened in Australia

1,300+ sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), and adverse-media lists, plus the country's regulatory watchlists and PEP registries.

Read the AML coverage docs
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