data.gov.au publishes 141,297 open datasets for Australia. Browse them live in Vizzie and turn any one into a map or chart.
data.gov.au is the open-data portal for Australia. It runs on CKAN, an open catalogue standard used by many national governments. You can browse it directly at data.gov.au/data. Reuse terms are set out in the portal's terms of service (Portal-specific terms page; licence is carried per dataset.).
On data.gov.au, a majority of datasets here declare no licence at all. It's important to know that "no licence declared" is not the same as public-domain or free-to-use. Undeclared data carries no explicit permission to copy, adapt, or redistribute it — so reusers should treat it cautiously and check with the publisher before relying on it. Vizzie flags each dataset's licence (or its absence) so you can see this before you build.
Of the 30,234 datasets here whose licence Vizzie can identify, 98% can be used commercially; 2% carry a share-alike condition, so work built on them has to be published under the same terms; 2% are non-commercial only. Attribution is required by almost every open licence — Vizzie writes the attribution line for you when you export or publish.
70.6% of datasets (92,736 of 135,168) declare license_id 'notspecified' with no licence_url and no licence in extras — verified 12 Aug 2026. data.gov.au does NOT publish a blanket fallback licence. These must be…
No download, no GIS specialist. Opens in Vizzie.