Exploring the history and evolution of lobbying regulation in Australian federal and state jurisdictions, this article develops a conceptual framework to evaluate lobbying regulation based on the form of regulation, the standards it imposes, and compliance processes.

This study is based on an empirical examination of 84 sets of uniform Acts and finds that specific areas of the law could be susceptible to higher or lower levels of uniformity. Legislation in commercial and corporate law, government, and energy and resources has been...