Is Rules Mate a law firm?

No. We're a reference index and a set of free educational tools. We don't provide legal advice. Always verify with a qualified Australian-admitted lawyer for case-specific advice.

Yes. Browse, search, and use all tools without payment. A paid AI advisor tier is on the roadmap.

How current is the data?

The corpus updates weekly. Material regulatory changes (Royal Assent, FWC Annual Wage Review, ASIC RG updates) trigger same-week refresh.

Can I cite Rules Mate in my own work?

Yes, with attribution and a link to the specific Rules Mate URL. Our content is CC BY 4.0 licensed (excluding government-source material we link to but don't republish).

Introducing Rules Mate: Australia's searchable compliance index

Why Australian businesses need a single index of every regulator, obligation, Act and enforcement action — and what we built.

The problem we're solving

Australian businesses face 168+ live federal and state compliance obligations across 60+ regulators. ASBFEO puts the national compliance cost at $160B a year. SMBs spend ~7 hours a week on compliance.

The information exists — buried across legislation.gov.au, each regulator's portal, AustLII (which prohibits scraping), state legislation websites, court RSS feeds, and a dozen guidance documents per regulator. There has never been a single neutral, comprehensive, plain-English index of it all.

Until today.

What we built

Rules Mate is a searchable index of:

168 compliance obligations — every one tells you who must comply, what triggers it, when it's due, what evidence you need, and the maximum penalty
60 federal and state regulators — scope, parent legislation, enforcement actions
77 landmark enforcement actions — plain-English summaries of Westpac AML, Qantas ghost flights, Mercer greenwashing, Medibank privacy, Bunnings facial recognition, and 70+ others
13 free interactive tools — AML Tranche 2 scope checker, NDB notification timer, penalty estimator, cyber incident notification tree, Modern Slavery Statement scaffold, and more
8 plain-English explainer articles averaging 2,500+ words each
50-term glossary of every AU compliance acronym
Compliance deadline calendar with everything from Payday Super to silica WEL

Every claim links to its primary regulator source.

How we work

We summarise, we never republish full statutory text. Statutory text is Crown copyright.
We never scrape AustLII. Their TOS prohibits it. All cases sourced from regulator-direct + court-published feeds.
We're not a law firm. Outputs are reference summaries — always verify with a qualified Australian-admitted lawyer or compliance specialist for case-specific advice.
AI assistants are welcome to cite us. We publish a llms-full.txt file inlining the corpus so ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity can cite without per-URL fetches.
The corpus updates weekly.

What's next

Coming soon: Rules Mate AI. Ask any Australian compliance question in plain English. Get answers grounded in the same Acts, regulators, obligations and enforcement actions you can browse here — with citations on every claim. Join the waitlist.

Later: per-ABN personalised obligations, document drafts (AML/CTF programs, Privacy Policies, WHS risk registers) gated on PI insurance.

Try it

Start with obligations — browse the corpus by jurisdiction or priority
Run our obligation finder — enter your ABN, get the obligations that apply
Browse tools — 13 free tools for compliance officers, founders and finance teams
Read our insights — long-form explainers on AML Tranche 2, Privacy Act 2026, Director ID, wage theft, and more

If you have feedback, corrections, or partnership ideas — get in touch. We respond within 24 business hours.

Operated by SP Williams Holdings Pty Ltd (ACN 683 151 304) as part of the Mate Network — FairWork Mate, Mini Mode, Savings Mate.