AustLII
The Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) provides free access to medium-neutral case law and unreported judgments across all Australian jurisdictions, with comprehensive coverage from 1995 onwards. Medium-neutral citation means each judgment has a stable reference that does not depend on a particular publisher's page numbers, which is handy when you want reliable anchors for retrieval.
Access is free, but AustLII's terms are best treated as open access rather than an open reuse licence. You can read and search the material without charge, yet it does not grant a blanket right to redistribute the full collection or build a commercial product on it, so review the terms before bulk-downloading for a RAG index.
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