[English] Open Australia Org
stephen at melbpc.org.au
stephen at melbpc.org.au
Mon Jun 16 18:30:45 EST 2008
Hi all,
www.OpenAustralia.org
"What's all this about?"
OpenAustralia.org make it easy for people to keep tabs on Parliament.
OpenAustralia combines Hansard (the official record of all of Australian
parliamentary debates - effectively a transcript of the proceedings of the
parliament), with information about our members of parliament, making it
much easier to: follow a particular debate or theme - eg, climate change
keep an eye on what your local member is saying and doing & comment on and
debate the issues yourself with other members of the site. It's run by non
partisan volunteers as a free digital-democracy-resource for Australia.
At www.OpenAustralia.org you can:
Find out more about your Representative
(Enter your Australian postcode here:)
Search: current Parliment documents for keywords
Popular searches today: climate change, environment, office
Sign up to be emailed when something relevant to you happens in Parliament
Read and comment on:
The most recent House debates: (That is, read who said what etc)
Assistant Treasurer
Parliamentary Staff
Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other
Legislation Amendment (2008 Budget and Other Measures) Bill 2008
National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical and Other Benefits-Cost
Recovery) Bill 2008
National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme) Bill 2008
Indigenous Affairs Legislation Amendment Bill 2008
Tax Laws Amendment (2008 Measures No. 3) Bill 2008
National Fuelwatch (Empowering Consumers) Bill 2008; National Fuelwatch
(Empowering Consumers) (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2008
Ministerial Statements
Business
Governor-General's Speech
Questions without Notice
Personal Explanations
Auditor-General's Reports
Matters of Public Importance
Leave of Absence
Committees etc etc
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OpenAustralia news
Public Launch of OpenAustralia Beta
We're open to the public! After more than six months work by a small group
of volunteers working in their spare time, we're launching OpenAustralia
to the public.
With OpenAustralia we hope to strengthen our traditions of fair and open
democracy in Australia. This site is about giving you, the Australian
public, the tools to easily follow what goes on in Parliament, and be just
a little better informed.
You'll hopefully discover with OpenAustralia that what goes on in
Parliament is much more interesting than you might imagine - entertaining
even!
What you see on TV or in newspapers is only a small part of what goes on.
OpenAustralia is about giving you access to all the other stuff in an easy
to use and friendly form.
This site is still in beta, which means that we're not totally confident
that we've ironed out all the small problems, but we didn't think it fair
to keep it from you any longer. If you do find something that looks wrong
please email us at contact at openaustralia.org.
Enjoy!
Posted on 16 June 2008 at 09:00:00 by Matthew
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Cheers Mathew
Stephen Loosley
Member, Victorian
Institute of Teaching
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