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Upon submission of your application assessment, successful candidates will be offered the opportunity to proceed to the next stage.

1 Application Assessment

Select the service or partnership package that’s the best fit for your business needs.

2 Partnership Invitation

After choosing your preferred partnership package, you will be directed to the payment page where you can complete your payment securely online or opt for an invoice. Once payment is received, our team will promptly finalise your application.

3 Complete Payment

We will welcome you to the Australian Owned community through a series of onboarding communications, and present multiple opportunities to promote and expose your business certification.

4 Partnership Onboarding

The Application Process:  Only 5 minutes to complete, no complex information required.

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"Joining a community of like-minded businesses, entrepreneurs and great thinkers that exists within the Australian Owned community is a privilege. Being able to display our Australian Owned badge on our website, email signatures and all marketing material we believe shows our dedication to the Australian market and its future."

"The AO logo quickly communicated to customers that we have local based support to get you through things only local people would understand."

"Having the AO logo goes right to the heart of what we believe in. Supporting small, family owned Australian farms has been what we’ve built our business on. Australia owns 53% of the world’s organic farmland and puts us in the position to be a world-leading industry." 

"For clients, the AO licence is a reinforcement of our credentials as an Australian owned business. These customers value localised service, data hosting in Australia and high levels of security compliances that only an Australian company can meet" 

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A business must be at least 80% owned by Australian citizens to qualify.

What is the minimum Australian ownership percentage required to get certified?

Of course, 100% owned by Australian citizens and 100% based in Australia.

Is Australian Owned owned by Australians?

We are not a government body and we don’t receive government funding.  We operate under a social enterprise model. We are cause-driven with a mission to support the Australian business community.  There is no government agency that certifies genuine Australian ownership and our ACCC lodged certification rules and IP was created as a measure to consumers, business and government  to identify genuine Australian Owned business.

Are you a government agency?

Australian Owned has a team of qualified compliance professionals and uses a range of resources to certify genuine Australian ownership in accordance with our ACCC lodged certification rules.

Who completes the certification?

There is a nominal one-off application fee that covers the cost incurred by us to complete the relevant due diligence checks that are required in accordance with our certification rules.  If successful, the licence to the trademark that is unique and individually designed for each successful applicant (displaying the business unique identifier number) is charged annually.  In addition to the licence to the trademark, the successful applicant also receives other high valued business and marketing assets and access to opportunities with Australian Owned.  Our current prices are available via our website.