The Digital Age 

Until relatively recently, the State and Territory land agencies had adopted a traditional approach to property transactions that was based on hand written, hard copy documents that were processed manually.

By the early 1980s, however, the digital age had dawned and new technologies were providing more effective means of electronically managing documents and records. Within Australia, individual jurisdictions began converting their hard copy land title records to electronic systems. In the late 1980s, some jurisdictions introduced remote electronic searches of their electronic title records. From the early 1990s, several jurisdictions prepared proposals for fully electronic processes to prepare and lodge instruments affecting land title records. More recently, Victoria, Queensland and NSW land agencies each commenced work towards separate systems for electronic conveyancing.

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