There is a long list, and nobody hands it to you. Each page below covers one organisation: who usually does it, how, what they will ask for, and what happens next.
Start with the death certificate, because almost everyone else will ask for it: how to register a death and get a death certificate.
Many of these can be done at once
The Australian Death Notification Service is a free government form that tells banks, insurers, super funds, utilities and phone companies together. How it works
Register the death
Government
- How to tell Centrelink someone has died
- How to tell Medicare someone has died
- How to tell the ATO someone has died
- What happens to a myGov account when someone dies
- How to tell the Australian Electoral Commission someone has died
- How to cancel a driver licence when someone has died
- How to cancel a passport when someone has died
Banks and super
Insurance
Utilities and services
Other
Keeping track
This is one of many. The tracker holds all of them.
The notification tracker lists every organisation most families have to tell, with a place to mark each one off and keep the reference number they give you. The checklist for the weeks after a death is free, with no account needed.