All the tools you need to find, search and track Australian legislation
TimeBase is your Australian legislation specialist. We save you time by bringing together legislation, bills and key related material across all nine Australian jurisdictions into one, comprehensive, easy-to use interface. Our innovative tools, available nowhere else, also give you the ability to keep on top of legislative change and compliance.
Reasons to love TimeBase
All jurisdictions, all in one place
Over 124,000 legislative items from across all nine Australian Federal and State jurisdictions in one easy to use interface. No more wasted time wading through multiple government and parliamentary sites or databases.
Find legislation fast
Get straight to the full text or details page of legislation through the dynamic title Lookup list. Flexible browse and search menus with multiple filters and sort options additionally help locate one or more relevant legislative items.
Unbeatable full text search
Accurately find where your search terms and phrases occur in legislation. Choose Basic or Advanced search templates, or create your own complex boolean queries. Results are highlighted in the summary and in the full text, and can be manipulated using multiple facets and filters (including by subject).
Comprehensive KEY info
Easily access all the most important details for each legislative item. The key info box aggregates links to assent, notification and commencement information, tables, bills and explanatory materials, subordinate legislation, selected cases, document downloads and more.
Customised alert emails
Receive alerts on legislative changes straight to your inbox. You can customise your alert profile to only track what is important to you - one or multiple items of legislation, over 30 subject areas and jurisdictions. For enterprise users, sharing a profile is easy, just add your colleagues' email addresses.
Bill tracking
Keep up to date on Bills as they progress through each stage of parliament. Alerts are distributed within hours of information being received and provide you with direct links to the text of the Bill, explanatory materials, second reading materials and more including selected draft tracking.
Regulatory compliance reports
The only legislation service where you can create customised legislative activity reports for your compliance register, jurisdiction or subject areas. Downloadable into excel, use the reports for legislative compliance monitoring, activity catchup and on-demand reporting over your chosen timeframe.
Any device, anytime
Access online 24 hours per day, 7 days per week from anywhere in the world. We use responsive design to optimise the presentation of information across desktop and smaller screen mobile devices.
We know legislation
Established for over 20 years, we combine subject matter expertise with innovative technology to deliver accurate, comprehensive and innovation legislation research tools. Our services are relied on by an increasing number of users from law firms, advisory firms, large and small businesses, government departments, universities and more.