Migration agent in AU
What this register publishes today, what is missing, and the smallest change that would move it up.
What was found
The authority publishes a searchable register of every registered agent and calls it the only true source for finding one, and its own user guide tells applicants to be careful of unlawful persons pretending to be registered agents. That sentence is this lab’s entire problem statement, written by a government office, in a help document, for a trade where the victim is usually a migrant paying a stranger. There is no file and no interface behind it.
What it publishes
| Check | Answer | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| A public page per licence | Yes | Gives a reader something to look at and a checker something to archive and attest against. |
| A bulk export | No | Lets a consumer hold the whole list instead of fetching one licence at a time, and lets anyone hash it. |
| Machine readable | No | A CSV or JSON rather than a page built for a browser. Decides whether checking can be automated at all. |
| Signed | No | Makes the file impossible to forge or mirror convincingly. Nothing reaches grade A without it. |
The next step
Give every licence a stable address
The register exists but lives behind a search form, so there is nothing to link to, nothing to archive and nothing to attest against. A permanent address per licence costs little and moves this row to grade C on its own.
A grade describes a register, not the authority behind it and not the quality of its supervision. An authority can run an excellent register and still sit at grade D because it is a search form.
If this row is wrong, it gets corrected with the correction published beside it. The index is useful only if it can be argued with. Tell the lab.