Top 500 reports

ORIC's report on the top 500 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporations collates and compares a range of data provided by corporations as part of their annual reporting.

The report is an important by-product of the Registrar’s regulatory function. For external stakeholders and the general public, the top 500 reports provide an overview of the sector, which is useful for a vast range of reasons, many of which we cannot anticipate. For the Registrar and ORIC staff, it provides valuable context, helping us to perform our regulatory functions (for example anticipating service demand and/or risk by geography, operating sector or size) and—since we can track improvements over time—measure the sector’s success. The analysis work also allows for a quality assurance check of information lodged. Errors or patterns identified during the analysis may be referred for internal quality assurance, to an individual corporation for follow up, or used to inform educational and other communication activities to the whole sector or segments of it.