What changed on the public record, week to 1 November 2026
In the seven days to 1 November 2026, the registers Catchwind reads recorded 129,189 changes. Of those, 37,931 were new entries and 32,303 were entries taken off.
The kinds of change an adviser hears about
- ABN status changes: 21,180
- GST status changes: 16,791
- Company name changes: 346
- Insolvency notices: 637
- External administrators appointed: 307
- Court judgments: 19
- Government contracts awarded: 1,159
- Government grants awarded: 585
- Development applications lodged: 285
- Liquor and gaming licence applications: 59
- Environmental regulator actions: 48
- Food safety offences: 16
Updated 3 November 2026: two entries first counted as taken off were later withdrawn from the record, and the counts above leave them out.
Updated 5 November 2026: nine more entries, eight first counted as GST status changes and one as taken off, were later withdrawn from the record, and the counts above leave them out.
Counts as at 1 November 2026, for the seven days ending that day (Queensland time), from public registers. No business, person or client is named here: a change about a particular client goes only to the practice that asked about that client.