Legislative velocity

Instruments published in gazette supplements per year, classified from their title pages.

Act → commencement-order lag

Acts matched to their later "(Commencement) Order" by name. Lag = days between the two publications.

Gazette structure drift, 2004–2026

For each contents-page section: % of that year's issues where the section had content (from 26,155 parsed TOC lines). Watch sections appear, fade, and vanish.

Publication cadence & the urgency index

Left: regular gazette issues per year (with the highest issue number seen — gaps mean unmirrored issues). Right: extraordinary gazettes per month — how often government needed to publish urgently.

Cross-source content differences

Same issue (type + year + number) present in multiple sources with different file hashes — candidates for silent revisions, re-scans, or corrections.