Statistics
Bankruptcy numbers; bankruptcy reform
The numbers of personal insolvencies in 2025-2026 (13,465) have increased from those in 2024-25 (12,257) but they still remain low, ...
Business reporting requirements – Productivity Commission inquiry
The government has asked that the Productivity Commission to undertake an inquiry into opportunities to improve the efficiency and value ...
Insolvency regulation – of the practitioners, and the regulators?
Revised 17.7.26 Insolvency practitioner regulation has had its annual review in the UK under a co-regulatory regime that Australia thought ...
Firm regulation of insolvency practitioners
Insolvency practitioners (IPs) are regulated as individuals, not through their firm. In fact, the practitioner’s independence within the firm is ...
Insolvency aspects of the Productivity Commission’s Business Dynamism Inquiry
In its inquiry into barriers to business dynamism, the Productivity Commission has now called for submissions on a range of ...
Shedding light on the dark side of insolvency practice
The Assistant Treasury Minister Dr Andrew Leigh has given support for the need to have good data to inform and ...
Personal insolvencies trending upwards, slowly
AFSA’s provisional monthly statistics in personal insolvency show only a minor monthly increase in numbers – 71 – during December ...
“Small business” insolvency data
The regular insolvency statistics were released by ASIC (corporate) and AFSA (personal) at the end of 2025 but with a ...
Falling returns in personal insolvency agreements
In the end, the bankruptcy of Mr Hartnett following the Inspector-General in Bankruptcy’s challenge to his Part X personal insolvency ...
Who owns, and owes, what in a typical incorporated small business?
The regular insolvency statistics have been released by ASIC (corporate) and AFSA (personal), but with a current focus on insolvency ...
Personal insolvencies in September 2025 – a slow rise
Personal insolvencies increased marginally in September 2025, by 74, over last month – that is, there were 1,169 new personal ...
Insolvency statistics – steady
New personal insolvencies across Australia increased 5.3% in 2024-25, to 12,257 up from 11,644 in 2023–24. Business related personal insolvencies ...
The use of data – when we can get it – in shaping law reform
Treasury Minister Dr Andrew Leigh has spoken of the merits and the need for data to assist in shaping government ...
12,250 personal insolvencies for the year – well down on the 10-year average of 19,500
AFSA has released numbers of new personal insolvencies in the June quarter 2025, totaling 3,179, a 7.9% increase on the ...
Continuing fall in personal insolvency numbers
Personal insolvency numbers in Australia have continued their decline, with the 1,012 new personal insolvencies in June 2025 falling by ...
A quiet insolvency scene in small business
The new Minister for Small Business, the Hon Dr Anne Aly MP, will be interested in the latest insolvency figures ...
Bankruptcies on a continued decline
Bankruptcy and other personal insolvency numbers look like falling below those of last year, and well below the long-term average. ...
Legislating in the dark – continued – IMF Report
The 2023 Parliamentary Joint Committee Report on Corporate Insolvency called for the collection and analysis of data in advance of ...
A quarter of new bankruptcies to go to female trustees
The personal insolvency regulator, AFSA, has announced it will increase its gender equity target in the allocation of bankrupt estates ...
Continued fall in personal insolvency numbers
Personal insolvencies are continuing their fall in Australia with the April 2025 figures of 1,073 dropping from 1,122 in March ...
Australian “politicians’ truth crisis” – a disgrace
The ABC reports – Criminologists debunk claims of ‘youth crime crisis’ as data shows dramatic declines – that most youth crime rates ...
Increase in low bankruptcy numbers
Personal insolvencies increased in March 2025 but remain significantly lower than 5 or more years ago – 9,071 for July ...
Insolvency numbers – a positive slant
The Australian newspaper has again given a useful account of corporate insolvency numbers, although slightly premature given that personal insolvency ...
Reserve Bank report on insolvency numbers’ “little threat to financial stability”.
Increases or decreases in the number of insolvencies in Australia are used, particularly now, as some sort of political weapon ...