Updated 24 Sep 2026 · 144 new this week

Australian companies in external administration

A creditor's register of liquidations, voluntary administrations, small business restructurings and winding-up applications — built from the notices practitioners must publish with ASIC, and refreshed three times a day.

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Today's notice board

The latest ASIC publishing day, sorted by the regime behind each notice, with a one-line note on what that regime means if the company owes you money.

Publishing day24 September 2026
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Companies1
1 appointment

A Federal Court or state Supreme Court order, usually won by a creditor after an unpaid statutory demand. The court appoints an official liquidator to take over.

Other regimes not in today's notices
  • Voluntary administration — Part 5.3A. An independent administrator takes the keys from the directors, investigates, and reports before the section 439A meeting, where creditors vote for a deed, liquidation or handing control back.
  • Small business restructuring — Part 5.3B, for companies owing less than $1 million. Directors keep trading while a small business restructuring practitioner helps them put a plan to creditors, who vote on it without a meeting.
  • Creditors' voluntary liquidation — Members (or creditors at a 439A meeting) have resolved to wind up an insolvent company. The liquidator sells assets, examines the directors' conduct and pays a dividend only if funds allow.
  • Winding-up application — A creditor has filed to have the company wound up. It is not in liquidation yet; the notice gives the hearing, and anyone planning to appear must first file a notice of appearance.
  • Deed of company arrangement — Creditors accepted a binding deal instead of a winding up. A deed administrator supervises it and unsecured creditors are bound by its terms, whether or not they voted yes.
  • Receivership — A secured lender has put a receiver in charge of the charged assets. Receivers answer mainly to that lender and notify ASIC on Form 505. Such appointments rarely appear as published notices.
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Reading the register: stages, sources and what to do next

Every row on this site is a company named in a notice published on ASIC's notices website. Under the Corporations Act 2001 and the Insolvency Practice Rules, an external administrator has to advertise there when they are appointed, when they call a creditors' meeting, when they invite proofs of debt and before they declare a dividend. Put together, those notices are the most timely public signal that a company is in trouble.

This register began collecting on 23 September 2026. Totals will look small at first and grow with each publishing day; monthly and state figures only cover notices captured since then.

Finding a company

Type a name or ACN into the search box, or narrow the table by state and stage. Each company has its own page with its notice trail, the appointee, and any deadline for proofs or proxies. Where one notice covers a whole group, each group company gets its own entry.

A short glossary

External administrator — the umbrella term for a liquidator, administrator, deed administrator or restructuring practitioner. Registered liquidator — a practitioner registered by ASIC to take these appointments. Proof of debt — your written claim, needed to vote and to share in any dividend. Section 439A meeting — the second creditors' meeting in an administration, where the company's fate is decided. Form 505 — the form practitioners use to tell ASIC about an appointment or its end.

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Questions creditors ask

Where does this list come from? +
From ASIC Published Notices, the website where registered liquidators, administrators and restructuring practitioners must advertise appointments, meetings, calls for proofs of debt and dividends. We read ASIC's daily feed, group the notices by ACN and add each company's business location from ABN Lookup.
How current is it? +
ASIC's feed only ever shows the latest publishing day, so we read it three times a day and keep everything we capture. A notice usually appears here within hours of being published; nothing older than the day we started collecting is included.
Does a winding-up application mean the company is in liquidation? +
No. It means a creditor has asked the court for a winding-up order. The company can still pay, settle or oppose the application. Only if the court makes the order does a liquidator take over — the company then reappears under a court liquidation notice.
A company on this list owes me money. What should I do first? +
Contact the external administrator named in the notice and lodge a proof of debt. For administrations, also lodge a proxy if you want a vote at the meeting. Former employees should ask about the Fair Entitlements Guarantee.
Are sole traders or personal bankruptcies included? +
No. Only companies with an ACN appear. Personal insolvency — bankruptcies, debt agreements and personal insolvency agreements — is handled by AFSA and never enters this register.
Something here is wrong. How do I get it corrected? +
Email us with the company's ACN and the page address. If the error is ours we fix it promptly; if the original ASIC notice is wrong, the practitioner who lodged it has to correct it with ASIC, and we update once the feed reflects the change.
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Across the country

Each marker is a company, pinned near its state capital. Pick a state to zoom in; the map follows the table filters.

Approximate, state-level positions · Map © OpenStreetMap, © CARTO · Source: ASIC Published Notices (CC BY 3.0 AU)