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 "dataset": "Australian building insurance",
 "source": "Each brand's and insurer's own Product Disclosure Statement, Key Facts Sheet, Target Market Determination and product pages (policies, cover, underwriter); APRA's list of registered general insurers (authorisation); ASIC's Australian Financial Services Licensee register on data.gov.au (licence, ABN)",
 "licence_note": "APRA authorisation is from APRA's list of registered general insurers, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (© Australian Prudential Regulation Authority). Licence fields are from ASIC's AFS Licensee dataset on data.gov.au, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia licence. Policies, their cover and their underwriters are facts read from each brand's and insurer's own published documents, and every one carries the URL and the sentence it was read from. Policies change, and the document that applies to a policy is the one issued with it. This is reference data, not advice about which policy to buy.",
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        "last_modified": "2026-11-11T20:51:07.739275",
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       "status": "found",
       "at": "2026-11-13T00:55:57+00:00"
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