Existing economy-wide and sector law
Privacy, consumer, corporations, workplace, safety, anti-discrimination and other obligations continue to apply where relevant to AI use.
Frameworks / Australian-first governance
Know what is law. Know what is guidance. Know what is your policy.
Swell is designed to operationalise governance sources without flattening them into a misleading “AI compliant” badge. Source, status, date and framework version remain visible.
Why this matters
Australian AI governance is not one law or one checklist.
For private organisations, governance sits across existing law, regulator guidance, voluntary responsible-AI guidance, sector obligations, standards and the organisation's own policy. The product should help management apply those sources consistently without implying that a completed assessment proves legal compliance.
Regulator expectations
Guidance can shape the evidence and reviews management should consider, but it must be labelled accurately rather than presented as legislation.
Mandatory only where in scope
Government AI policies provide useful design references and direct obligations for in-scope entities, but should not be marketed as private-sector law.
Responsible adoption practices
Voluntary guidance can be operationalised as a baseline pack while remaining clearly labelled as voluntary.
AS ISO/IEC 42001 concepts
Swell can support evidence mapping and management-system concepts without claiming certification or complete conformity.
Your own requirements
Customers can apply stricter approval thresholds, prohibited uses and internal controls on top of the baseline.
Versioning
Rules change. History should not.
Published rule packs should be immutable. Each assessment stays pinned to the version used at the time. When a new framework pack is published, Swell can identify affected records and create recheck work rather than silently rewriting old decisions.
AssessmentFramework v1.3
New frameworkv1.4 published
Impact3 answers require recheck
HistoryOriginal decision remains intact
What the user sees
Every rule can explain its basis.
Swell supports structured governance and evidence. It does not certify legal compliance and does not replace specialist judgement.
Framework discussion