| ABN | Australian Business Number |
| ABS | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
| ALCI | Analytical Living Cost Index |
| ANZSIC | Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification |
| APR | arithmetic mean of price relatives, also referred to as the Carli formula |
| APRA | Australian Prudential Regulation Authority |
| ATO | Australian Taxation Office |
| AWE | average weekly earnings |
| CAGR | Compound Annual Growth Rate |
| CCB | Child Care Benefit |
| CCTR | Child Care Tax Rebate |
| COICOP | Classification of Individual Consumption According to Purpose |
| COLI | Cost of Living Index |
| CPI | Consumer Price Index |
| CRA | Commonwealth Rent Assistance |
| DEEWR | Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations |
| DoHA | Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing |
| EEH | Survey of Employee Earnings and Hours |
| FAO | Family Assistance Office |
| FISIM | financial intermediation services indirectly measured |
| GDP | gross domestic product |
| GM | geometric mean |
| GST | goods and services tax |
| HEC | Household Expenditure Classification |
| HELP | Higher Education Loan Program |
| HES | Household Expenditure Survey |
| HESA | Higher Education Support Act 2003 |
| HFCE | household final consumption expenditure |
| HPI | House Price Index |
| ILO | International Labour Organization |
| IPD | implicit price deflator |
| ITPI | International Trade Price Indexes |
| LPI | Labour Price Index |
| PBLCI | Pensioner and Beneficiary Living Cost Index |
| PBS | Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme |
| PPI | Producer Price Indexes |
| RAM | random-access memory |
| RAP | relative of the arithmetic mean of prices, also referred to as the Dutot formula |
| RBA | Reserve Bank of Australia |
| SEE | Survey of Employment and Earnings |
| TAU | type of activity unit |
| TNTS | The New Tax System |
| UN | United Nations |