With the establishment of the world’s largest network of marine protected areas, Australia is now uniquely placed to develop standardised national approaches to monitor these Australian Marine Parks (AMPs). Monitoring at the national scale requires standardisation so that results are comparable and collatable across AMPs through time, while still allowing for differences among equipment, vessels, and environmental conditions. Due to the large geographic area, diverse flora and fauna, and range of environmental conditions represented by the AMPs, a single method of sampling is neither practical nor desirable. As part of the NESP Biodiversity Hub, we will form working groups and leverage off existing networks to develop and promote standard protocols for six key marine benthic sampling platforms (identified based on frequency of use in previous monitoring programs): Multibeam sonar (MBES), Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), Baited Remote Underwater Video (BRUVs), towed video, grabs and boxcores, and sleds and trawls. Each of these platforms has particular advantages and limitations that will be described. These field manuals will help guide the standardisation of long-term data acquisition and post-processing (from field to data resource) to appropriately monitor Australia’s AMPs.