One page: published resources for Australia's AI Standards process

What this is. The Government has announced Australian Standards for AI, an Office of AI, and legislation in early 2027. We build operations software in which every consequential decision already works the way the announced framework says it should: a person decides, the record shows who, and model-generated conclusions are structurally separate from human determinations. Ahead of consultation, we have published the working material a drafting process needs - openly, so it can be used without us. Everything here aims at one thing: the shortest distance between a stated obligation and a verifiable one - a rule you can check by running something, not only by reading it.

Published and ready to lift:

• Defined terms glossary - drafting-instruction-ready definitions (automated system, determination, author of a determination, consent grant, capability licence, revocation, provenance record), each with its rationale. The highest-reuse artefact here.

Working reference code. A running reference implementation of the licensed-capability mechanism is published at git.meanwhile.computer/meanwhile/research - clone it and check the claims yourself.

• Policy map and predicted assembly - every input on the drafters' desk since 2023, dated and sourced, with an assessment of how it assembles into the act.
• Sovereign capability, defined by layers - what "sovereign" means past the data-centre debate, including a civic compute program proposal (community allocations, library model).
• Capability licensing research - cryptographically enforced, revocable authorisation for system capabilities, with a runnable reference implementation. The enforcement mechanism the policy stack currently asserts but does not specify.
• Worked example: the determination record - running software in commercial use where the audit trail answers "who decided" without forensics. Every determination has an author.

Three things worth doing that need no legislation:

1. Adopt the glossary's terms in agency style and drafting instructions - available today, costs nothing.
2. Run the Standards process in the open as administrative practice: submissions published, meetings logged, adopted text attributed to its source.
3. Pilot civic compute in three councils under the National AI Plan's "spread the benefits" pillar.

A target worth setting. Because the reference implementation already exists and is open, conformity can be built rather than only audited. The aim we design toward: a small business reaching its first, documentary conformity class in an afternoon, not a procurement cycle. We state it as a target, not a promise - but a reachable one, because the working example is already there to copy.

The ask. Adopt the pattern. It is specified, running, Australian and open - built to be adopted without us. We are ready to present the working system to the Office of AI or any consultation the Government convenes.

Everything above links from one place: the reader's guide

Written with model assistance; read, checked and meant by its human author. Corrections welcome via the contact page.

Reviewed and checked by the human author: 2026-07-20.