How this was made

From the official record to a page you can read.

Parliament publishes everything — every bill, every speech, every vote — but spread across thousands of dense documents. This site collects those documents, has AI rewrite them in plain English, and then checks every claim against the originals before anything is published. Here is each step.

What we read — the official record

Bill text The full legal text of every bill, and where it is up to
Speeches Hansard — the word-for-word transcript of every speech in Parliament
Amendments Every proposed change to a bill, and whether it succeeded
Voting records Who voted yes and who voted no, in every counted vote
Explanatory memoranda The government’s own plain-language explanation of each bill
Committee reports Reviews of bills by panels of MPs and senators
The Federal Register The official record of which bills became law

Also read, for context only — news coverage

We also read what journalists report about a bill, drawing on established outlets such as:

The Australian Financial Review The Sydney Morning Herald ABC News The Guardian The Age The Canberra Times

…and other recognised mastheads. News is used for background and public reaction only — never as the source of a fact. Facts always come from the official record above.

  1. 01

    Collect

    We gather everything Parliament publishes about each bill

    For each of the 700+ bills we cover, our system downloads the bill’s text, the government’s explanation, every speech made about it, every proposed change, every vote, and every committee report — along with related news coverage for background.

  2. 02

    File

    Every document is filed with its origin attached

    Each document is stored with where it came from, who published it, and when. Nothing on this site exists without a paper trail back to an original document — that paper trail is what makes the later checking steps possible.

  3. 03

    Write

    AI rewrites the documents in plain English

    An AI model drafts each part of a bill’s page: what the bill does, what each speaker argued, what was changed, and how the votes went. The AI is only allowed to use the documents we collected — not its own memory — and it must point to the exact document behind every claim it makes.

  4. 04

    Check

    Software checks every quote and reference

    Before anything goes further, a checking program (ordinary software, not AI) goes through the draft line by line: every quote must appear word-for-word in the original document, and every reference must point to a real one. Anything that fails is thrown out.

  5. 05

    Double-check

    A second AI re-reads the page looking for mistakes

    A separate AI fact-checker reads the finished page against the original documents and flags anything they don’t actually support. We test this checker by planting deliberate errors and measuring how many it catches, so we know how reliable it is.

  6. 06

    Review & publish

    New pages are compared and reviewed before going live

    When a page is rebuilt, the new version is compared with the one already published, section by section, and reviewed. Only pages that pass this final review appear on the site.

What this means for you

Written by AI, tied to documents

The words on each page are written by AI — but only from official documents, and only after the checks above pass. We never publish a quote we could not find in the record.

News is background, not evidence

Where a page mentions public debate or media reaction, that comes from news coverage and is presented as context. The facts — what a bill says, who voted how — always come from the official record.

Not the official record

This is an independent project, not affiliated with Parliament. For the legal text of any bill or law, go to Parliament’s own site or the Federal Register of Legislation.

Mistakes are still possible

The checking reduces errors; it does not eliminate them. That is why every page links to its sources — so you can verify anything that matters to you.