Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Australia Sanctions List from DFAT
The Australia sanctions list is the Consolidated List kept by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. It names people and entities subject to targeted financial sanctions and travel bans under Australian law, covering both UN Security Council sanctions and Australian autonomous sanctions.
Current version in OfacScanner
LoadedEntries in the current version
4,009
- Published
- Oct 7, 2026
- Checked
- Oct 11, 2026, 15:47 UTC
- Programs
- 29
- Screened on
- Growth, Scale and Enterprise
What is the Australia sanctions list
Australia applies sanctions under two laws. The Charter of the United Nations Act 1945 puts UN Security Council sanctions into Australian law. The Autonomous Sanctions Act 2011 lets Australia impose its own sanctions as a matter of foreign policy, often together with partners such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and the EU.
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, known as DFAT, keeps one Consolidated List of all people and entities designated under both frameworks. The Australian Sanctions Office, which sits within DFAT, is the government regulator for sanctions. It gives guidance, handles permits and promotes compliance.
Because the list combines UN and autonomous designations, it is a convenient single file for anyone who must follow Australian sanctions law.
What Australian targeted financial sanctions mean
Targeted financial sanctions generally make it an offence to use or deal with an asset owned or controlled by a designated person or entity, and to make an asset available to them, directly or indirectly, unless a permit allows it. Travel bans stop designated individuals from entering or passing through Australia.
Australian sanctions law applies to activity in Australia and to Australian citizens and Australian bodies corporate overseas. Serious breaches can be criminal offences, so businesses that hold assets or move money for others treat screening as a basic control.
Asset holders who find that they hold a frozen asset are expected to freeze it and notify the regulator. As with the OFAC SDN list, ownership and control can matter even when a company is not named itself.
What a DFAT Consolidated List entry contains
Fields vary by entry. Use every one of them when you review a possible match.
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Name and type
The name of the individual or entity and whether it is a person or an organization.
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Aliases
Other names and spellings recorded for the same party.
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Regime and instrument
The sanctions regime and the legal instrument that made the designation.
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Personal details
Date and place of birth and citizenship for individuals.
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Addresses
Known addresses and countries.
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Additional information
Free text with background, identity documents and listing notes.
Current Australia sanctions list data in OfacScanner
Live figures from the DFAT Consolidated List version we screen against, with recent changes and the largest regimes.
Official source
- Issuing authority
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- List
- Australian Consolidated Sanctions List
- Data file we read
- www.dfat.gov.au/sites/default/files/Australian_Sanctions_Consolidated_List.xlsx (XLSX)
- Update checks
- Checked against the official source every 30 minutes
- Last check
- Oct 11, 2026, 16:29 UTC
Entries by type
| Type | Active entries |
|---|---|
| Individuals | 2,575 |
| Organizations | 1,075 |
| Vessels | 359 |
Recent versions and changes
| Published | Checked | Entries | Added | Removed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 2026 | Oct 11, 2026, 15:47 UTC | 4,009 | First version stored, baseline for later changes | |
A new row appears each time the official file changes. Monitoring re-screens your saved records against every added entry.
Largest sanctions programs on this list
| Program | Active entries |
|---|---|
| Autonomous (Russia) | 1,039 |
| Autonomous (Ukraine) | 841 |
| 1267 (ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida) | 336 |
| Autonomous (Vessels) | 299 |
| Autonomous (Iran) | 240 |
| 1718 (DPRK) | 214 |
| Autonomous (Syria) | 143 |
| 1988 (Taliban) | 141 |
| 1737 (Iran) | 121 |
| Autonomous (Thematic - Human Rights) | 112 |
| 1373 (2001) | 101 |
| 1518 (Iraq) | 74 |
One entry can sit under several programs, so the program counts add up to more than the entry total.
How to screen against the Australia sanctions list
Australia is screened in the same check as the OFAC lists and the other global lists on Growth and higher.
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Enter or upload names
Check one name in the web app or upload a CSV file with customers, suppliers or payees.
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Add what you know
Country, date of birth and entity type help separate real matches from namesakes.
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Review the result
Candidates show the list, the regime, the matched alias and a 0 to 100 score with a Clear, Review, Likely match or Exact match rating.
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Monitor what you keep
Add saved records to ongoing sanctions monitoring and get an alert when a new DFAT version brings a match.
The list changes when governments act
The Consolidated List changes when the UN Security Council lists or delists a party and when Australia makes or revokes an autonomous designation. Changes often arrive in groups. OfacScanner checks the official DFAT file every 30 minutes and records each change as a new version. The results support your compliance decisions, and OfacScanner is not affiliated with the Australian Government.
Australia sanctions list questions
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