Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
Religious Discrimination Bill 2021, introduced November 2021, would have prohibited discrimination on the basis of religious belief or activity in employment, education, and the provision of goods and services, with contested provisions on "statements of belief" and on religious-school staffing. Passed the House of Representatives February 2022 after five Coalition moderates crossed the floor to amend the Sex Discrimination Act protections for LGBTQ+ students; the government then withdrew the package from the Senate. Illustrative of the Morrison Coalition's binding conservative-wing constraint on social-policy delivery.
Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.
Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".
Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.