Australia legal data from official sources, structured for AI and legaltech.
Access 86,025+ Australian Commonwealth acts, regulations and legislative instruments from the Federal Register of Legislation, Australia's authoritative legislation portal, issued by 138 federal authorities. Search Australian legal data directly or connect it to your AI agent, legaltech product or research workflow through Lawstronaut's API and MCP server. Every record is linked to its official source and structured in the same format used across more than 150 jurisdictions.
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Which legislative instrument provides the Australian Government Disaster Recovery Payment for ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred in New South Wales?
The Social Security (AGDRP—Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred—New South Wales) Determination (No. 3) 2025 — a legislative instrument issued by the Department of Home Affairs, last amended 14 March 2025 and currently in force.
Source: Department of Home Affairs — https://www.legislation.gov.au/F2025L00379/asmade
Retrieved: 2026-04-26 · Version: 1 · Cited in-turn
The official Australian sources we cover
Lawstronaut collects Australian legal materials from the Federal Register of Legislation (legislation.gov.au), the Australian Government's authoritative source for Commonwealth law. Each record links back to its original source, with metadata such as issuing authority, publication date, legal link, portal, content type, and version where available.
Source categories: general legislation · federal parliament and government · acts, regulations and legislative instruments · official source
- Australia Federal Register of Legislation (legislation.gov.au)
Australian legal source types covered
Australian legal coverage centres on Commonwealth primary and secondary legislation — acts, regulations, and legislative instruments — from the Federal Register of Legislation, with regulatory instruments, legislative history, and case law where available.
Legislation & Regulations
Commonwealth acts, regulations, rules, and legislative instruments, taken directly from the Federal Register of Legislation (legislation.gov.au), the authoritative whole-of-government legislation source.
Legislative History
As-made and amended versions of Commonwealth instruments, amendment and repeal records, and compilation history from the Federal Register where available, version by version, each tied to its source.
Regulatory Guidance & Enforcement
Registered regulatory instruments — determinations, guidelines, codes, and standards — issued by federal departments and agencies such as the Attorney-General's Department and the Department of Home Affairs, where published on the Federal Register.
Case Law
Australian court decisions are not yet part of the covered portal set. Team and Enterprise customers can request official court sources — such as the High Court of Australia and the Federal Court — for prioritized onboarding.
One Australian legal data layer. Four ways to use it.
Lawstronaut API
Query Australian acts, regulations, legislative instruments, and regulatory materials through a REST API. Use structured metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and version history to power legaltech products, compliance workflows, and internal research tools.
GET /v2/contents?iso=AU&limit=20Lawstronaut MCP
Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, and other AI agents to Australian legal sources. Questions become live searches against the corpus and return citation-ready answers grounded in official Australian materials — deployable in minutes, with no integration work.
AI Agent Integration
Give your legal AI agent same-turn provenance: it retrieves current Australian legal materials — official source links, metadata, and full text — before generating an answer, with a citation and timestamp on every response.
Build with Lawstronaut
Build Australian legal search, monitoring, compliance, research, and legal AI features without crawling, parsing, normalizing, and updating official sources yourself. We handle source discovery, ingestion, normalization, versioning, and change detection; you build the product.
What you can do with Australian legal data
- Retrieve legal metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and original source files where available
- Filter by jurisdiction, portal, issuing authority, authority type, language, status, and dates
- Access official legal links for citation and audit trails — citation, timestamp, and source link returned in the same turn
- Track point-in-time versions and article-level changes across Australian legal materials
- Run Horizon Scanning — track what changed in Australian law, when, and where, without manual monitoring
- Connect AI agents to official Australian sources through MCP; use the API for search, monitoring, compliance, and AI ingestion workflows
- Build internal Australian legal research tools without maintaining your own crawler stack
Why Lawstronaut for Australian legal research
Australian legal information is spread across the Commonwealth's Federal Register of Legislation, parliamentary materials, dozens of federal regulators, the courts, and separate legislation systems in each state and territory. For humans, that means slow research. For AI systems, it's a bigger problem: fragmented source access, inconsistent formats, missing provenance, and weak citation trails.
Lawstronaut turns those sources into one structured legal data layer — source links, metadata, full text, versioning, and API/MCP access. Your product or agent retrieves the legal source directly instead of relying on generic web search or unverified model memory. Every answer carries a citation, a timestamp, and a link to the official document — the provenance that makes a legal research platform defensible to auditors and regulators.
About Australia legal coverage
Australia is a common-law federation. Commonwealth legislation — acts, regulations, and legislative instruments — is published in authoritative form on the Federal Register of Legislation (legislation.gov.au), maintained by the Office of Parliamentary Counsel. Lawstronaut's Australian federal coverage is drawn from that register, spanning instruments issued by 138 federal authorities, from the Attorney-General's Department to the Department of Home Affairs. Each of Australia's six states and two territories maintains its own legislation system; Western Australia is covered as a separate Lawstronaut jurisdiction. Records are published in English.
Commonwealth law changes constantly: compilations on the Federal Register are updated as amendments commence, instruments are made and repealed year-round, and reform programs — from privacy reform of the Privacy Act 1988 to financial services and migration rule-making — keep the statute book moving. Point-in-time data straight from the register, with repeal status and amendment dates on every record, is what keeps an Australian legal research answer correct today.
Built for
Legaltech companies
Build Australian legal search, monitoring, drafting, compliance, and AI research features without maintaining your own legal source pipeline.
Compliance & GRC teams
Monitor Australian regulatory materials, guidance, enforcement updates, and legal changes across official sources — without a manual monitoring rota.
AI builders
Ground legal AI answers in official Australian legal text, source links, and metadata — answers that survive an auditor.
Internal legal teams
Give lawyers and business users faster access to Australian legal sources through AI agents and internal tools, without hiring a researcher per jurisdiction.
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