Hansard Attribution and Source

1. Source and attribution

auspol.ai is built on the official Hansard record of the Parliament of Australia — the verbatim transcript of proceedings of the House of Representatives, the Senate, and parliamentary committees. Hansard transcripts and related parliamentary materials are sourced from the Parliament of Australia website at aph.gov.au, including the ParlInfo database, which is published as part of the Parliament of Australia website.

With the exception of the Commonwealth Coat of Arms and where otherwise noted, material on the Parliament of Australia website is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. We attribute the source as Parliament of Australia website, in line with the attribution string requested by the Parliament. auspol.ai does not use the Commonwealth Coat of Arms.

2. How we use Hansard

We use Hansard to make Australian parliamentary proceedings easier to search, follow, and understand. Specifically:

• We index Hansard transcripts so they can be queried via natural language. Indexing involves storing copies of the source text in our retrieval systems for the sole purpose of search and citation.
• Where we display Hansard to users, we display it in its original verbatim form and link back to the official record on aph.gov.au. Our internal retrieval index adds short contextual headers (date, chamber, speaker) to chunks of the source to improve search accuracy; these helper headers are not redistributed and do not appear in the source text shown to users.
• We do not train artificial intelligence models on Hansard content. Hansard is supplied to large language models only at query time, as retrieval-augmented context, to ground answers in the official record.
• AI-generated outputs — including topic summaries, podcast episodes, and chat answers — are produced on demand and are our own analysis, review, and reporting of the underlying parliamentary proceedings. They are not redistributions of the source.

3. Legal basis — fair dealing

auspol.ai relies on the fair dealing provisions of the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) as the legal basis for using Hansard, rather than on the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence under which the Parliament publishes its website. In particular, our use is for the purposes of:

• Research or study (s 40)
• Criticism or review (s 41)
• Reporting news (s 42)

In each case we make sufficient acknowledgement of the source — the Parliament of Australia — and provide direct links back to the original record. Hansard itself is published by the Parliament for the express purpose of public information about parliamentary proceedings, and the broader public interest in informed political participation underpins our approach.

We do not assert that our use complies with the NonCommercial or NoDerivatives terms of CC BY-NC-ND 4.0; instead, we acknowledge the licence under which the Parliament publishes Hansard and rely on fair dealing for our own activities.

4. What you pay for

Hansard is freely available to the public via the Parliament of Australia. auspol.ai does not charge for access to Hansard transcripts.

What we charge for is the AI compute that powers our products: the tokens consumed by large language models when generating topic summaries, podcast episodes, and chat answers, together with the engineering, hosting, and infrastructure required to deliver those features at scale. Pricing details are available on our pricing page.

5. No affiliation or endorsement

auspol.ai is an independent service operated by Launch Lab Pty Ltd (ABN 11 603 903 868). We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or connected in any official capacity to:

• The Parliament of Australia, the House of Representatives, or the Senate;
• The Department of Parliamentary Services or any parliamentary department;
• The Commonwealth of Australia or any Commonwealth, State, or Territory agency;
• Any individual member of Parliament, political party, or political organisation.

The official Hansard, published by the Parliament of Australia, remains the authoritative record of parliamentary proceedings.

6. Accuracy of AI-generated content

AI-generated audio, summaries, and chat responses produced by auspol.ai may contain errors, omissions, or inaccuracies. They are not a substitute for the official Hansard. Where accuracy matters, you should verify any AI-generated content against the original record on aph.gov.au. This is consistent with the disclaimer in Section 9 of our Terms and Conditions.

7. Corrections, takedowns, and contact

If you believe that any content on auspol.ai is inaccurate, breaches a third party's rights, or should otherwise be reviewed, please contact us. We take such requests seriously and will respond promptly.