Australia — ABR / ASIC Lookup

Live, direct-to-government access to Australian Business Register (ABR) — ABN Lookup, Australian Taxation Office.

Single-country variant of the cross-border Cross-Border UBO Chain Walker. Use this skill when the user is explicitly focused on Australia.

What you get

• Direct query to ABR / ASIC. Every tool call hits Australian Business Register (ABR) — ABN Lookup, Australian Taxation Office at the moment you ask. No nightly scrape, no aggregator middle layer.
• Unmodified responses. Field names, status codes, and (where available) raw filing bytes are returned exactly as the registry's own system emits them.
• Native ID format support. 11-digit ABN or 9-digit ACN (e.g. ABN 33 123 456 789, ACN 004 028 077 for BHP Group Limited).
• Sample entity: BHP Group Limited.

Available tools (jurisdiction = AU)

search_companies, get_company_profile

For every tool, pass jurisdiction: "AU" (case-insensitive).

Example prompts

Find BHP Group Limited's ABN and confirm GST/operating status

Look up Commonwealth Bank of Australia by ABN

Search for all Pty Ltd with 'Coal' in the name in NSW

Workflow

Step 1 — Resolve the entity

search_companies({ jurisdiction: "AU", query: "<name or ID>" })
get_company_profile({ jurisdiction: "AU", company_id: "<id>" })

Step 2 — Pull the relevant register slice

Pick from the available tools list above. For UBO walks across borders, return to the Cross-Border UBO Chain Walker.

Quirks specific to Australia

• ABR (ABN Lookup) is the open public dataset; full ASIC company data (officers, shareholders, registered addresses) is paid-only via ASIC's commercial channels.
• ABN ≠ ACN. ABN is for tax/business; ACN is for incorporated companies (subset of ABNs).
• GST registration date is in the ABR record — useful indicator of operational status.
• Indigenous corporations (CATSI) and partnerships also have ABNs — filter by entity_type in profile.

Provenance

• Registry: Australian Business Register (ABR) — ABN Lookup, Australian Taxation Office
• Government URL: <https://abr.business.gov.au/>
• OpenRegistry jurisdiction code: AU
• Underlying MCP server: https://openregistry.sophymarine.com/mcp

See also

• KYC & Cross-Border Due Diligence — full statutory dossier across multiple jurisdictions
• Cross-Border UBO Chain Walker — flagship multi-jurisdiction UBO trace
• Director Search & PEP Screening — find every company a person has run

OpenRegistry is a platform by Sophymarine. Skills licensed CC-BY-4.0.