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ARA Retail Institute

Association

Source · AusTender (Department of Finance)

Executive Summary
Source-backed

This profile contains verified Australian Government public records relating to ARA Retail Institute.

Folio currently holds verified records covering government procurement, drawn from 1 official publisher. No verified records for parliamentary interests, political donations, and lobbying registrations are currently linked.

Evidence Overview

Every evidence domain currently in scope for this profile. Each item links to its full section below.

Official Australian Business Register
ABR Verified
Official legal name
AUSTRALIAN RETAIL COUNCIL
ABN
99 064 713 718
Entity type
Other Incorporated Entity
ABN status
Active(since 11 Apr 2000)
GST
Registered from 1 July 2000
ASIC / ACN
—
State
NSW · 2000
ABR record updated
—

Business names

ARC Legal & Workplace Advisory
ARC Retail Academy
ARC Retail Legal Services
ARC Legal
ARC Legal Services
ARC Retail Institute
AUSTRALIAN RETAIL COUNCIL
AUSTRALIAN RETAILERS ASSOCIATION FLORISTRY AND DESIGN
ARA HAIR AND BEAUTY
Major Retail Alliance
Retail Ready
ARA RETAIL INSTITUTE
ARA INSURANCE SERVICES
Publisher: Australian Business RegisterVerified: 19 Aug 2026View on ABR Lookup
Coverage Matrix

The complete official-record landscape considered by Folio. Empty domains are shown honestly — they never imply absence of activity, only that no record has been identified from currently ingested datasets.

  • Parliamentary Interests

    Interests declared on the Senate or House Register of Interests.

    No records currently linked

    Publisher: Parliament of Australia

  • Political Donations

    Gifts and donations disclosed to the AEC.

    No records currently linked

    Publisher: Australian Electoral Commission

  • Government Procurement

    Contracts awarded to or by Australian Government agencies.

    Records available · 20 records

    Publisher: AusTender · Department of Finance

  • Government Grants

    Grants awarded by Australian Government agencies.

    Configured, not yet populated

    Publisher: GrantConnect · Department of Finance

  • Lobbying Registrations

    Registered lobbying relationships between representatives and clients.

    No records currently linked

    Publisher: Federal Register of Lobbyists · Attorney-General's Department

  • Timeline

    Chronology of dated public-record events already linked to this profile.

    Records available · 60 records

    Publisher: Multiple government publishers

  • Relationship Network

    Connections established from official records, never from inference.

    Records available · 20 records

    Publisher: Derived from official records

  • Official Government Documents

    Every underlying document that supports this profile.

    Records available · 20 records

    Publisher: Original publishers

  • State & Territory Registers

    State and Territory interest and lobbyist registers.

    Dataset not yet enabled

    Publisher: State & Territory parliaments

  • Ministerial Diaries

    Ministerial diary disclosures published by portfolio departments.

    Dataset not yet enabled

    Publisher: Prime Minister & Cabinet

Investigation Opportunities

Available evidence you can drill into now, plus datasets that will contribute automatically once matching records are identified.

Currently available

Watching for

  • Parliamentary Interests

    Publisher: Parliament of Australia

  • Political Donations

    Publisher: Australian Electoral Commission

  • Government Grants

    Publisher: GrantConnect · Department of Finance

  • Lobbying Registrations

    Publisher: Federal Register of Lobbyists · Attorney-General's Department

Additional evidence will appear automatically when matching records are identified. Absence of a record does not imply absence of activity.

Official Government Records
1 of 4 registers

This profile of ARA Retail Institute combines information only from verified Australian Government transparency registers. Every claim below links back to an original source document.

Verification: Source-backedPublishers: 1Last updated: 21 May 2018
Public Record Summary

Cross-dataset overview

ARA Retail Institute currently appears across 1 Australian Government transparency dataset.

First recorded 15 Nov 2007Latest activity 8y ago (21 May 2018)
Coverage Matrix

Dataset coverage

Present in 1 of 7 supported Australian transparency datasets.

DatasetPublisherRecordsFirstLatest
AEC Transparency Register
Australian Electoral Commission—Not presentNot present
AusTender Contract Notices (Commonwealth)
Department of Finance208 Apr 20087 Feb 2014
State & Territory Procurement
State/Territory procurement publishers—Not presentNot present
GrantConnect — Australian Government Grants
Department of Finance—Not presentNot present
Federal Lobbyist Register
Attorney-General's Department—Not presentNot present
House of Representatives Register of Interests
Parliament of Australia—Not presentNot present
Senate Register of Interests
Parliament of Australia—Not presentNot present

Datasets marked "Not present" have no matching records in the currently ingested public data. This does not imply the organisation is absent from that register — only that Folio's ingested snapshot contains no matching rows.

Connected Government

Agencies contracted with

5 agencies · $807,687 in total contract value across AusTender records.

AgencyContractsTotal valueLatest contract
Workplace Authority
1$467,3818 Apr 2008
CRS Australia
15$324,9067 Oct 2011
Department of Education Employment and Workplace Relations
1$15,40026 June 2009
Department of Human Services
2$019 Dec 2012
Attorney-General's Department
1$07 Feb 2014

AusTender + State/Territory Government · source-backed

Government procurement history

Commonwealth
Verified · Official publisher
Contracts
20
Amendments
0
Total value
$807,687
Largest
$467,381
Jurisdictions
1
Agencies
5
Standing Offers
0
Panels
0
Coverage
8 Apr 2008 – 7 Feb 2014
JurisdictionPublishedContractAgencyValueAmendmentSource
Commonwealth7 Feb 2014
Development of online training tool
Attorney-General's Department——AusTender ↗
Commonwealth19 Dec 2012
<p>Certificate II Retail for CRS Australia jobseekers - Fairfield NSW</p>
Department of Human Services——AusTender ↗
Commonwealth20 Mar 2012
<P>Certificate II Retail for CRS Australia jobseekers - Mt Druitt, NSW</P>
Department of Human Services——AusTender ↗
Commonwealth7 Oct 2011
<P>ARA Certificate II in Retail</P>
CRS Australia——AusTender ↗
Commonwealth7 Oct 2011
<P> <P>Certificate&nbsp;II in&nbsp;Retail programme</P></P>
CRS Australia——AusTender ↗
Commonwealth7 Oct 2011
<P>ARA Certificate II in Retail</P>
CRS Australia——AusTender ↗
Commonwealth7 Oct 2011
<P>ARA Certificate II in Retail</P>
CRS Australia——AusTender ↗
Commonwealth7 Oct 2011
<P>ARA Certificate II in Retail</P>
CRS Australia——AusTender ↗
Commonwealth7 Sept 2010
ARA Cert II in Retail - WA payment
CRS Australia$14,250—AusTender ↗
Commonwealth20 July 2010
<P>Final Instalment Certificate II Reatail Program</P>
CRS Australia$14,250—AusTender ↗
Commonwealth20 July 2010
<P> <P>Cert II in Retail program - job seeker training commencing from 31.5.10 to 2.7.10</P></P>
CRS Australia$16,250—AusTender ↗
Commonwealth20 July 2010
Training
CRS Australia$16,250—AusTender ↗
Commonwealth20 July 2010
<P>Certificate II in Retail - Qld Div Office</P>
CRS Australia$28,501—AusTender ↗
Commonwealth20 July 2010
Training
CRS Australia$30,382—AusTender ↗
Commonwealth20 July 2010
Training
CRS Australia$57,000—AusTender ↗
Commonwealth20 July 2010
Training
CRS Australia$57,000—AusTender ↗
Commonwealth20 July 2010
Training
CRS Australia$62,523—AusTender ↗
Commonwealth20 July 2010
<P>Cert II in Retail Gold Coast 31/05/10</P>
CRS Australia$28,500—AusTender ↗
Commonwealth26 June 2009
Job Seeker Training
Department of Education Employment and Workplace Relations$15,400—AusTender ↗
Commonwealth8 Apr 2008
Employer Advisor Programme
Workplace Authority$467,381—AusTender ↗
Government Grants

Australian Government grants received

Publisher: GrantConnect (Department of Finance) · Every record links back to grants.gov.au.

Official register
No official Australian Government grant records have been identified for ARA Retail Institute.

AEC transparency register

No official AEC transparency-register returns beyond simple donations reference this organisation. Filings would appear here as the annual disclosure archive is ingested.

Connected Political Activity

Donations, lobbying and parliamentary mentions

A combined view of how ARA Retail Institute appears across AEC donations, the Federal Lobbyist Register and parliamentary registers of interest.

No political donations, lobbying registrations or parliamentary interest mentions are currently on record for this organisation across the Australian datasets ingested by Folio.

Relationship Network

How does ARA Retail Institute connect to other entities on the public record?

0 verified connections

This profile currently connects to 0 verified entities across 1 official government publisher.

20

Contracts

Public Profile

Public Records

20 verified records

Government Sources

1 official publisher

Timeline

60 events

Relationship Network

20 verified relationships

Official sources

1

verified publisher

Relationships

20

verified relationships

Timeline

60

recorded events

Organisations

None linked

No linked organisations identified from current official records

People

None linked

No linked individuals identified from current official records

Latest activity

19 Aug 2026

Most recent public record

Key people mentioned

Top individuals linked through official public records, ranked by relationship strength.

No people have yet been linked to this organisation from currently ingested official records.

Timeline

Chronology of every dated public record linked to ARA Retail Institute, grouped by dataset.

60 of 60 events

  1. 7 Feb 2014

    AusTender
    AusTender (Department of Finance)
    contract awarded

    Development of online training tool

    Contract from Attorney-General's Department

    Source-backedView original source

  2. 19 Dec 2012

    AusTender
    AusTender (Department of Finance)
    contract awarded

    <p>Certificate II Retail for CRS Australia jobseekers - Fairfield NSW</p>

    Contract from Department of Human Services

    Source-backedView original source

  3. 20 Mar 2012

    AusTender
    AusTender (Department of Finance)
    contract awarded

    <P>Certificate II Retail for CRS Australia jobseekers - Mt Druitt, NSW</P>

    Contract from Department of Human Services

    Source-backedView original source

  4. 7 Sept 2010

    AusTender
    AusTender (Department of Finance)
    contract awarded

    ARA Cert II in Retail - WA payment

    Contract from CRS Australia

    Value $14,250

    Source-backedView original source

  5. 20 July 2010

    AusTender
    AusTender (Department of Finance)
    contract awarded

    Training

    Contract from CRS Australia

    Value $62,523

    Source-backedView original source

  6. 20 July 2010

    AusTender
    AusTender (Department of Finance)
    contract awarded

    Training

    Contract from CRS Australia

    Value $57,000

    Source-backedView original source

  7. 20 July 2010

    AusTender
    AusTender (Department of Finance)
    contract awarded

    Training

    Contract from CRS Australia

    Value $57,000

    Source-backedView original source

  8. 20 July 2010

    AusTender
    AusTender (Department of Finance)
    contract awarded

    Training

    Contract from CRS Australia

    Value $30,382

    Source-backedView original source

  9. 20 July 2010

    AusTender
    AusTender (Department of Finance)
    contract awarded

    <P>Certificate II in Retail - Qld Div Office</P>

    Contract from CRS Australia

    Value $28,501

    Source-backedView original source

  10. 20 July 2010

    AusTender
    AusTender (Department of Finance)
    contract awarded

    <P>Cert II in Retail Gold Coast 31/05/10</P>

    Contract from CRS Australia

    Value $28,500

    Source-backedView original source
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Government Contracts

Has this entity been named in Australian Government procurement records?

20 contracts · $807,687
PublishedTitleAgencyValueSource
7 Feb 2014Development of online training toolAttorney-General's Department—AusTender
19 Dec 2012<p>Certificate II Retail for CRS Australia jobseekers - Fairfield NSW</p>Department of Human Services—AusTender
20 Mar 2012<P>Certificate II Retail for CRS Australia jobseekers - Mt Druitt, NSW</P>Department of Human Services—AusTender
7 Oct 2011<P>ARA Certificate II in Retail</P>CRS Australia—AusTender
7 Oct 2011<P> <P>Certificate&nbsp;II in&nbsp;Retail programme</P></P>CRS Australia—AusTender
7 Oct 2011<P>ARA Certificate II in Retail</P>CRS Australia—AusTender
7 Oct 2011<P>ARA Certificate II in Retail</P>CRS Australia—AusTender
7 Oct 2011<P>ARA Certificate II in Retail</P>CRS Australia—AusTender
7 Sept 2010ARA Cert II in Retail - WA paymentCRS Australia$14,250AusTender
20 July 2010<P>Final Instalment Certificate II Reatail Program</P>CRS Australia$14,250AusTender
20 July 2010<P> <P>Cert II in Retail program - job seeker training commencing from 31.5.10 to 2.7.10</P></P>CRS Australia$16,250AusTender
20 July 2010TrainingCRS Australia$16,250AusTender
20 July 2010<P>Certificate II in Retail - Qld Div Office</P>CRS Australia$28,501AusTender
20 July 2010TrainingCRS Australia$30,382AusTender
20 July 2010TrainingCRS Australia$57,000AusTender
20 July 2010TrainingCRS Australia$57,000AusTender
20 July 2010TrainingCRS Australia$62,523AusTender
20 July 2010<P>Cert II in Retail Gold Coast 31/05/10</P>CRS Australia$28,500AusTender
26 June 2009Job Seeker TrainingDepartment of Education Employment and Workplace Relations$15,400AusTender
8 Apr 2008Employer Advisor ProgrammeWorkplace Authority$467,381AusTender

Named in Parliamentary Interests

Which parliamentary interest declarations mention ARA Retail Institute?

0 declarations

No parliamentary interest declarations currently name this organisation.

Relationship Summary

ARA Retail Institute has 0 verified relationships across 0 official datasets.

Organisations

0

People

0

Agencies

0

Political parties

0

Contract links

0

Lobbyist links

0

Connected Organisations

Which organisations, agencies or parties appear alongside ARA Retail Institute on the public record, ranked by evidence strength?

0 unique · 0 verified evidence rows

No other organisations, agencies or parties are yet linked to this entity from currently ingested official records.

Connected People

Which people appear alongside ARA Retail Institute on the public record, ranked by evidence strength?

0 unique · 0 verified evidence rows

No people are yet linked to this organisation from currently ingested official records.

Official Government Documents

Every document below is published by an Australian Government body and can be opened directly from its original source.

KindDatasetDateDescriptionVerify
contractAusTender — procurement7 Feb 2014Development of online training tool — Attorney-General's Department ↔ ARA Retail Instituteopen source
contractAusTender — procurement19 Dec 2012<p>Certificate II Retail for CRS Australia jobseekers - Fairfield NSW</p> — Department of Human Services ↔ The Australian Retailers Association t/a ARA Retail Instituteopen source
contractAusTender — procurement20 Mar 2012<P>Certificate II Retail for CRS Australia jobseekers - Mt Druitt, NSW</P> — Department of Human Services ↔ Australia Retail Associationopen source
contractAusTender — procurement7 Oct 2011<P>ARA Certificate II in Retail</P> — CRS Australia ↔ ARA RETAIL INSTITUTEopen source
contractAusTender — procurement7 Oct 2011<P>ARA Certificate II in Retail</P> — CRS Australia ↔ ARA RETAIL INSTITUTEopen source
contractAusTender — procurement7 Oct 2011<P>ARA Certificate II in Retail</P> — CRS Australia ↔ ARA RETAIL INSTITUTEopen source
contractAusTender — procurement7 Oct 2011<P> <P>Certificate&nbsp;II in&nbsp;Retail programme</P></P> — CRS Australia ↔ ARA RETAIL INSTITUTEopen source
contractAusTender — procurement7 Oct 2011<P>ARA Certificate II in Retail</P> — CRS Australia ↔ ARA RETAIL INSTITUTEopen source
contractAusTender — procurement7 Sept 2010ARA Cert II in Retail - WA payment — CRS Australia ↔ ARA RETAIL INSTITUTE (AUD 14250)open source
contractAusTender — procurement20 July 2010<P> <P>Cert II in Retail program - job seeker training commencing from 31.5.10 to 2.7.10</P></P> — CRS Australia ↔ ARA RETAIL INSTITUTE (AUD 16250)open source
contractAusTender — procurement20 July 2010Training — CRS Australia ↔ ARA RETAIL INSTITUTE (AUD 16250)open source
contractAusTender — procurement20 July 2010<P>Certificate II in Retail - Qld Div Office</P> — CRS Australia ↔ ARA RETAIL INSTITUTE (AUD 28501)open source
contractAusTender — procurement20 July 2010Training — CRS Australia ↔ ARA RETAIL INSTITUTE (AUD 30382)open source
contractAusTender — procurement20 July 2010Training — CRS Australia ↔ ARA RETAIL INSTITUTE (AUD 57000)open source
contractAusTender — procurement20 July 2010Training — CRS Australia ↔ ARA RETAIL INSTITUTE (AUD 57000)open source
contractAusTender — procurement20 July 2010Training — CRS Australia ↔ ARA RETAIL INSTITUTE (AUD 62522.72)open source
contractAusTender — procurement20 July 2010<P>Cert II in Retail Gold Coast 31/05/10</P> — CRS Australia ↔ ARA RETAIL INSTITUTE (AUD 28500)open source
contractAusTender — procurement20 July 2010<P>Final Instalment Certificate II Reatail Program</P> — CRS Australia ↔ ARA RETAIL INSTITUTE (AUD 14250)open source
contractAusTender — procurement26 June 2009Job Seeker Training — Department of Education Employment and Workplace Relations ↔ AUSTRALIAN RETAILERS ASSOCIATION (AUD 15400)open source
contractAusTender — procurement8 Apr 2008Employer Advisor Programme — Workplace Authority ↔ Australian Retailers Association (AUD 467380.88)open source
Official sources

Parliamentary Register of Interests (House)

0 records

No records linked yet

Parliamentary Register of Interests (Senate)

0 records

No records linked yet

Federal Register of Lobbyists

0 records

No records linked yet

AEC Donations (Declared Gifts)

0 records

No records linked yet

AusTender (Government Contracts)

0 records

No records linked yet

Key information

Name

ARA Retail Institute

Type

Association

ABN

99064713718

Jurisdiction

AU

Source datasets

1

Connected records

20

Timeline events

60

Contracts recorded

$807,687

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