Environmental regulation stringency — emissions caps, standards, phase-out mandates, carbon pricing, renewable portfolio standards.
Targeted industrial and sectoral subsidies (renewable energy, chip manufacturing, agriculture, green hydrogen, etc).
Policy posture toward energy supply security — domestic production capacity, import diversification, strategic reserves, nuclear stance, fossil-fuel mix discipline.
Product-market regulation, entry barriers, licensing burdens, network-industry regulation, price controls.
Companion regulatory regime to the Emissions Reduction Fund, in force from 1 July 2016, requiring facilities emitting over 100,000 tCO2-e per year to keep emissions below baseline limits set by the Clean Energy Regulator. The 2023 Albanese-government reforms (Safeguard Mechanism (Crediting) Amendment Act 2023) tightened baselines on a declining trajectory and introduced tradeable Safeguard Mechanism Credits, giving the framework a quasi-ETS character.
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.