Sanctions list
Australia's DFAT Consolidated List: Australian sanctions designations and how to screen against them
The DFAT Consolidated List is the Australian Government's list of every person, entity and vessel subject to targeted financial sanctions or travel bans under Australian sanctions law — Australia's own autonomous designations and its implementation of UN Security Council sanctions. CompliAPI ingests DFAT's published workbook daily and screens every listed name and alias.
- Publisher
- Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
- List type
- Sanctions
- Refresh
- Ingested daily
- API list slug
au_dfat- Official source
- DFAT Consolidated List
- Download
- Full list as CSVJSONOfficial fileNo API key required.
About this list
Australia imposes sanctions under two laws: the Autonomous Sanctions Act 2011, for measures Australia adopts itself, and the Charter of the United Nations Act 1945, which gives effect to UN Security Council sanctions. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade publishes everyone designated under either in one Consolidated List, released as an Excel workbook. Each entry names the regulation or instrument behind it and whether a targeted financial sanction, a travel ban, an arms embargo or a maritime restriction applies.
The workbook has one row per name: a party's primary name, followed by its aliases and its name in the original script, each repeating the party's details. In early November 2026 it held 4,015 parties — 2,578 individuals, 1,078 entities and 359 vessels. DFAT grades aliases as strong or weak; CompliAPI screens primary names, strong aliases and original-script names, and returns weak aliases in the match metadata without matching on them. Birth dates, citizenship and addresses are kept to separate namesakes.
Identity documents appear only in free-text notes, written out as prose, so CompliAPI does not extract them as screenable identifiers; the same notes are scanned for emails and websites, skipping links to shared platforms and government sites. Because the list includes Australia's UN implementations, many entries also appear on the UN Security Council Consolidated List.
What CompliAPI extracts
- Names and aliases of individuals, entities and vessels, including original-script spellings, screened with /screen/name
- Email addresses and websites named in the list's additional information
- Ship IMO numbers, screened with /screen/vessel
How CompliAPI handles it
Official workbook, daily
CompliAPI downloads DFAT's consolidated workbook daily and groups its rows back into parties by reference number, so a person's aliases and original-script name screen as one party.
Names first
Every primary name, strong alias and original-script name becomes screenable through /screen/name, with birth dates, citizenship and addresses kept for the match. Emails and websites from the notes are screenable through their own endpoints.
Reconciled for this list alone
Each run is reconciled for the Australian list only, so a party DFAT removes stops matching without touching any other list's data.
Screen against this list
Every /screen endpoint checks all enabled lists by default and names the list behind each match. Add the ?lists= filter to restrict a request to this source.
GET /api/v1/screen/name?name={name}&lists=au_dfat
Response
{
"value": "Jane Example",
"flagged": false,
"sanctioned": false,
"lists_checked": ["au_dfat"],
"threshold": 85,
"excluded": 0,
"matches": []
}Frequently asked questions
What is the DFAT Consolidated List?
The Australian Government's list of every person, entity and vessel subject to Australian sanctions, published by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. It covers designations made under the Autonomous Sanctions Act 2011 and those giving effect to UN Security Council sanctions under the Charter of the United Nations Act 1945, with the instrument behind each entry.
Does the Australian list include UN sanctions?
Yes. Australia implements UN Security Council sanctions through the Charter of the United Nations Act 1945, and those designations are on the Consolidated List alongside Australia's autonomous ones. A UN-designated party can therefore match both au_dfat and un_sc; CompliAPI returns one match per list.
What are strong and weak aliases on the DFAT list?
DFAT grades each alias. Strong aliases are names a party is reliably known by; weak aliases are vaguer and would match many unrelated people. CompliAPI matches primary names, strong aliases and original-script names, and returns weak aliases in the match metadata without matching on them.
Can I screen passport numbers against the DFAT list?
Not through this list. DFAT records identity documents only inside free-text notes, so CompliAPI does not extract them as identifiers. Screen the name with /screen/name, adding a birth date or country to separate namesakes; many of the same parties' documents are screenable through the UN, UK and EU lists.
Does a DFAT match set sanctioned: true?
Yes. The DFAT Consolidated List is classified as sanctions data, so a match sets both flagged and sanctioned, with the match naming au_dfat as its list and carrying the regime and designating instrument in its metadata.
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