Australian State Boundaries from Geoscape Administrative Boundaries

Australian state and territory boundaries derived from authoritative cadastre data by each jurisdiction. The dataset is built and maintained by Geoscape Australia and includes seven themes such as ABS boundaries, electoral boundaries, and local government areas. It was last updated on data.gov.au in April 2026 and is available under a CC BY 4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Map creation and visualization based on official Australian administrative boundaries.
• Spatial analysis for policy or service planning using state and local government area themes.
• Data integration for systems requiring authoritative geographic reference frames like GDA94 or GDA2020.

Strengths

• Built from authoritative government cadastre data from each state and territory jurisdiction.
• Available under an open Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
• Offers coordinate data in both the GDA94 and newer GDA2020 geodetic datums.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Geoscape Australia, using data from state and territory jurisdictions.

Collection Method

Derived from cadastre data.

Time Range

Snapshot as of November 2019 for the described datum options.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-04 18:00:23.437915; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australia (states and territories).