Government writing is famously hostile to outsiders. Babel Fish is a Chrome extension that quietly sits on any .gov.au page you open and translates the jargon into plain, human language, with a touch of dry Australian wit. Selected text, hover-to-translate, the whole page if you ask it to.
Most founders engaging government for the first time give up halfway through the first grant guideline. Not because the policy is wrong, but because the language was written for the people who already know what it means. Babel Fish removes that friction so you can read what is actually being said.
Highlight any phrase or click the extension popup to translate the page you are on. Works on departmental sites, parliamentary papers, grant guidelines, regulatory notices. Local-first where it can be; falls back to an AI translation for the long stuff.
Plain-language translations are aids to understanding, not legal advice. For anything load-bearing, always read the original alongside. .gov.au sites only, by design. The AI gets things wrong occasionally; if a sentence reads oddly, check the original. Rate-limited per device per day.
If you need Babel Fish at scale, or a private build for a specific portfolio, get in touch. Custom domain coverage, internal-glossary loading, and enterprise install are all available.