Australia's AI economy, measured rather than guessed.
What it costs, what the law now requires, and which regulators reach your use of it. Every figure here carries the source it came from, the date it was checked, and whether it is a fact from that source or our reading of one.
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Four things, done properly.
We would rather cover four subjects with a source on every figure than twenty with none.
Where to start
The eight questions Australian businesses actually ask: what the law requires, which tools you may use, what it costs, and whether you need someone in-house.
Read the answers →Who regulates you
62 obligations across 31 bodies. Pick your industry and see which reach your use of AI, what each requires in plain English, and where to read it.
Open the navigator →What models cost
Input, output, cache and batch prices for 58 models, with origin, licence and what each vendor actually says about Australian data residency.
Compare models →What it will cost you
Describe your workload in plain terms and see the monthly and annual bill in Australian dollars, priced across every model that publishes a rate.
Open the calculator →What changed
Every Australian AI, privacy and data-centre policy movement that matters to business. Dated, sourced, and separated into what the source says and what it may mean.
Read the tracker →Does the December duty apply?
Two questions decide it. A fair number of businesses find the answer is no, and knowing that is a useful result.
Run the check →Fact and interpretation, kept apart.
Australia has no AI Act. The National AI Plan of December 2025 confirmed the government will rely on existing technology-neutral law rather than a single AI statute, and the proposed mandatory guardrails for high-risk AI were dropped. Of the 62 obligations we track, 38 name AI or automated decision-making, and 24 do not mention it at all.
The absence of an AI Act is not the relief it sounds like. One statute would give you one compliance project with one commencement date. Instead every regulator that already governs you now reads its existing rules as covering your AI, so the obligation arrives with no transition period and no notice that it applies to something new.
National AI Plan, Department of Industry, Science and Resources, December 2025. Obligation counts from our own register, verified 7 September 2026. How we classify evidence
If you would rather not write it yourself.
Five editable documents that turn the National AI Centre's six essential practices and the December disclosure duty into a policy, a tool register, a one-page data rule and a board brief. Every clause that depends on official wording carries its source.
Written for businesses with 20 to 200 staff and no legal team. The Department publishes a free policy template and we point you to it. Buy this if you also want the data-classification matrix, the register and the board brief already drafted.
Everything on this site is general information. It tells you which door to knock on, not what to do behind it. Before you rely on any of it, have it checked against your business, your industry rules and your contracts by a qualified adviser.
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