Do Australia "post code" geographies correspond to ABS "postal areas"?

[fredzannarbor]

This article recommends using only ABS postal area maps to correspond to post codes. Is that what Alteryx does?

http://all-things-spatial.blogspot.com.au/2010/09/australian-postcodes-user-guide.html

http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/by%20Subject/1270.0.55.003~July%202016~Main%20Feature...

[EricM · Accepted solution]

Hi @fredzannarbor, 

The postal geographies included with the Australia/New Zealand Spatial bundle are sourced from TomTom.  As the Australia Bureau of Statistics notes, post code geographic boundaries are often not defined by the postal authority, and therefore are modeled by third parties (this is also the case in the US).