| 2008 SNA | 2008 System of National Accounts manual |
| ABN | Australian Business Number |
| ABR | Australian Business register |
| ABS | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
| ACC | Australian Crime Commission |
| ACBPS | Australian Customs and Border Protection Service |
| AFP | Australian Federal Police |
| AIC | Australian Institute of Criminology |
| AIHW | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| ANZSIC | Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification |
| ASNA | Australian System of National Accounts |
| ATO | Australian Taxation Office |
| Auspost | Australia Post |
| BPM6 | Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual, Sixth Edition |
| CoE | compensation of employees |
| EDRS | The Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting System |
| FISIM | Financial Intermediation Services Indirectly Measured |
| g | gram |
| GDP | gross domestic product |
| GDP(E) | expenditure approach to measuring GDP |
| GDP(I) | income approach to measuring GDP |
| GDP(P) | production approach to measuring GDP |
| GFCE | government final consumption expenditure |
| GFCF | gross fixed capital formation |
| GMI | gross mixed income |
| GOS | gross operating surplus |
| GST | goods and services tax |
| GVA | gross value added |
| HES | Household Expenditure Survey |
| HFCE | household final consumption expenditure |
| HPOFU | household production own final use |
| IDDR | Illicit Drug Data Reports |
| IDRS | Illicit Drug Reporting System |
| IHS | Inmate Health Survey |
| IU | Intermediate Use |
| kg | kilogram |
| LSD | Lysergic acid diethylamide |
| LVT | low value threshold |
| MDMA | 3,4–methylenedioxy–N–methylamphetamine |
| MIMIC | Multiple Indicators Multiple Causes |
| NDARC | National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre |
| NDSHS | National Drug Strategy Household Survey |
| NOE | non–observed economy |
| NSW | New South Wales |
| OECD | Organisation for Economic Co–operation and Development |
| SITS | Survey of International Trade Services |
| SNA | System of National Accounts |
| SU | supply use |
| TIU | total intermediate use |