Tonight’s monitor
AU · Federal bill
National Housing Accord 2026 — second reading
High · affects your postcode
AU · Regulator
ACCC draft determination — nbn wholesale pricing
Medium · follows your topic · broadband
U.S. · House bill
HR 4421 — Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act
Watching · markup Thu
How it works
From 1,400 pages of Hansard a week to three things you read.
Most Australians and Americans hear about a bill when it’s already an act. Backbench reads first — and tells you what to do before the second-reading vote or the House floor.
Get on the waitlist01 · Profile
Tell Backbench what to watch for.
A two-minute signup: your electorate (House or district seat), three or four topics (housing, energy, super, small-business, parks, …) and the kind of decisions you want flagged. No Facebook login, no profile-building questionnaire — just what to read.
02 · Monitor
Agents read overnight, so you don’t have to.
Every evening, Backbench pulls new bills from the Federal Register of Legislation, Hansard, the ACCC, ASIC, your state gazette and your local council. In the United States we read Congress.gov, the Federal Register, FEC disclosures and — where you opt in — your state legislature and city council. Each item is scored against your profile. About 4 in 5 don’t matter to you — those are quietly discarded.
03 · Digest
A 90-second digest in your inbox at 7am.
Three to five items, ranked by impact, written in the same tone a smart friend would use at a kitchen table. Each item links to the source so you can read the original yourself in five more minutes if you want.
04 · Reply
A letter is half-written before your coffee.
Where you’ve opted in, Backbench drafts a letter to your MP, state member, U.S. representative or councillor. Addressed correctly, cited by clause, in your tone — you edit and send. We never send on your behalf and we never share your contact with a campaign.
What’s inside a digest
A morning digest a real human actually reads.
Below is a fictionalised Tuesday digest for a Backbench subscriber in a Brisbane suburb. Real digests are the same shape — just about the bills real on that day.
Federal bill · Matched
Housing Accord (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2026
A new clause would let the Commonwealth underwrite part of the social-housing build-out through state housing authorities. The version before the House removes a sunset clause on a $3.1B pool. Your profile flags the rent-assistance carve-out change as the clause most likely to land in your inbox.
Letter drafted to your federal MP — ready to edit.
Regulator · Watched
ACCC draft — nbn wholesale pricing 2026–28
The ACCC has opened consultation on a new wholesale price floor for the nbn. The change would, on the regulator’s own modelling, shift about $7 of monthly cost between retailers and end-users. Backbench flags this for you because you marked broadband as a watch topic.
No letter suggested — comment window open until 14 Sep.
Council · Watching
Brisbane City Council — Item 8.4 transit corridor
A 1.2km bus-priority corridor on your street goes to vote Thursday. The agenda packet flags two amendments you marked as relevant: a property-setback change and a kerbside parking conversion.
Letter drafted to your ward councillor.
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