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Asia-PacificVerified 2026-09-01

AI regulation in Australia

Proposed / draft legislationNothing binding yet. The direction is visible enough to design against, but the text can still change.

Australia has published a Voluntary AI Safety Standard and proposed mandatory guardrails for high-risk AI use, which have not yet been enacted as binding law.

The instrument

Voluntary AI Safety Standard + proposed mandatory guardrails

Administered by Department of Industry, Science and Resources.

Not yet mapped to obligation level

AIC has verified Australia's regulatory position — the status, the instrument and the administering body above are checked against primary sources. What is not here is the clause-by-clause breakdown of what the instrument requires, because we have not done that work for this jurisdiction yet.

We would rather leave that visible than write a plausible-sounding summary nobody checked. If Australia matters to your organisation, tell us and it moves up the queue.

This page is a general orientation guide built from public sources, not legal advice, and it does not establish that any organisation complies with Australia's requirements. AIC certifies governance against its own published standard; that is a different question from legal compliance, and neither substitutes for the other. Back to the map.