| ABARES | Australian Bureau of Agricultural Resource Economics and Sciences |
| ABS | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
| ABR | Australian Business Register |
| ACARA | Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority |
| ACBPS | Australian Customs and Border Protection Service |
| ACER | Australian Council for Educational Research |
| ACT | Australian Capital Territory |
| ADI | Authorised Deposit-taking Institutions |
| AEC | Australian Electoral Commission |
| AIHW | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| ANZDATA | Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant Registry |
| AOFM | Australian Office of Financial Management |
| APRA | Australian Prudential Regulation Authority |
| ARA | Australasian Railway Association |
| ASAC | Australian Statistics Advisory Council |
| ATO | Australian Taxation Office |
| ATSB | Australian Transport Safety Bureau |
| BITRE | Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics |
| BoM | Bureau of Meteorology |
| BREE | Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics |
| CER | Clean Energy Regulator |
| COAG | Council of Australian Governments |
| CPI | Consumer Price Index |
| Dept | Department |
| DHS | Department of Human Services |
| DIBP | Department of Immigration and Border Protection |
| DoHA | Department of Health and Ageing |
| DSS | Department of Social Services |
| FMA | Fisheries Management Area |
| GA | Geoscience Australia |
| GCCSA | Greater Capital City Statistical Area |
| GDP | Gross Domestic Product |
| GSP | Gross State Product |
| GST | Goods and Services Tax |
| IMF | International Monetary Fund |
| LFSS | Labour Force Supplementary Surveys |
| LGA | Local Government Area |
| MDB | Murray Darling Basin |
| Met/Ex-Met | Metropolitan/Ex-Metropolitan |
| MPHS | Monthly Population Household Survey |
| MPS | Monthly Population Survey |
| NCVER | National Centre for Vocational Education Research |
| NHPF | National Health Policy Forum |
| NRM | Natural Resource Management |
| NSW | New South Wales |
| NT | Northern Territory |
| NWC | National Water Commission |
| OECD | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| PPI | Producer Price Indexes |
| QLD | Queensland |
| RBA | Reserve Bank of Australia |
| RBDM | Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages |
| RFC | Registered Financial Corporation |
| RSE | Relative Standard Error |
| SA | South Australia |
| SDDS | Special Data Dissemination Standard |
| SE | Standard Error |
| SEARS | Survey of Employment Arrangements, Retirements and Superannuation |
| SEEA | System of Environmental-Economic Accounting |
| SEWPaC | Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities |
| Tas. | Tasmania |
| UN | United Nations |
| UNESCO | United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation |
| UNFAO | Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations |
| UNFCCC | United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change |
| UNODC | United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime |
| VET | Vocational Education and Training |
| Vic. | Victoria |
| VIC DoJ | Victorian Department of Justice |
| WA | Western Australia |