On Saturday Luke and I were really glad to be invited on FBi radio’s excellent Backchat programme. You can listen to the podcast here: Thanks for having us, FBi!
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Luke and Henare talk They Vote For You on FBi’s Backchat
Posted in Media, Projects, They Vote For You
Tagged FBi, Federal government, interview, Parliament, politics, radio, They Vote For You
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How your MP votes, now on OpenAustralia.org
OpenAustralia.org is ancient by internet standards. When it was created 7 years ago Twitter had just launched. There was no Instagram. Or GitHub. After all this time it keeps chugging along, still making our Parliament more accessible and understandable. Today is a rare and happy day when we add something new to the venerable site. […]
Posted in Development, OpenAustralia.org, Projects, They Vote For You
Tagged API, divisions, MPs, OpenAustralia.org, Parliament, policies, Senators, They Vote For You, votes
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Keep an eye on the policies that matter to you
Believe it or not there is no easy to understand explanation of every vote in our Federal Parliament. That’s why They Vote For You relies on the hard work of people like you to summarise votes and research Policies so that we can all better understand how our MPs are voting on our behalf. Largely […]
Posted in Development, Projects, They Vote For You
Tagged divisions, email alerts, policies, They Vote For You
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And what a hackfest it was
September 15th is The International Day of Democracy and this year also marked the start of the Global Legislative Openness Week (GLOW). GLOW is a week of openness activities around the world, with events hosted by the Legislative Openness Working Group of the Open Government Partnership and members of the parliamentary openness community. To celebrate […]
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Tagged Australia, Australian Federal Parliamentary Library, civic hacking, Day of Democracy, Google, hackfest, Legislative Openness Working Group, Lisa Cross, Luke Bacon, Nick Evershed, Open Government Partnership, openaustralia foundation, parliamentary vote, parliamentary voting, They Vote For You
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Time for another hackfest – Global Legislative Openness Week (GLOW) edition
The OpenAustralia Foundation is pleased to invite you to another one of our legendary hackfests. In some of our previous hackfests we’ve opened PlanningAlerts to over 1.8 million more Australians and brought hacks and hackers together to launch our Freedom of Information project Right To Know. Places are limited so RSVP for free now or […]
Posted in Event, Morph, OpenAustralia Foundation, OpenAustralia.org, Projects
Tagged Federal parliament, hackfest, Legislative Openness Working Group, Open Government Partnership, openaustralia foundation, Parliament of NSW, Parliamentary Monitoring Organisation, parliamentary voting, Sydney, Sydney Hackfest, They Vote For You, transparency
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Sydney Pub Meet Now A Regular Feature
Before the night was even over at our last pub meet people were asking when the next one would be so we’re making it a regular thing! From now on, the last Tuesday of every month will feature the OpenAustralia Sydney Pub Meet. We’ve now got a fancy Meetup group set up so please join […]
Posted in Announcement, Event
Tagged Central station, civic hacking, data journalism, Freedom of Information, open government, pub food, Pub Meet, social, Woolpack Hotel
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Sydney Pub Meet – 24th June 2014
We’re having a Sydney pub meet on Tuesday the 24th of June 2014 and you’re invited. Come along, say hi, and have a chat about open government, transparency, FOI, and civic hacking with us and friends. You can even get a sneak peek at our upcoming project. We’ll be sitting by the fire in the […]
A long overdue tech update about Australia’s first ever parliamentary vote tracker
Back in July last year Matthew told you that we’d started work on a new project and it’s high time for an update on the progress of that project. I want to share with you what we’ve been doing, where we’re at right now, and some exciting new development that we’re undertaking before we launch […]
Easier collaboration for OpenAustralia Foundation projects
It should be simple for anyone to get involved in helping create an OpenAustralia Foundation project. After all, that’s what our projects seek to do to our democracy – make it really easy to get involved. Today we’ve made a solid step in that direction. We’ve moved our entire issue tracking system to GitHub Issues. […]
Candidates Can’t Hide – Now Anyone Can Monitor the Federal Election
Today we’re proud to announce the launch of the OpenAustralia Foundation’s live election monitoring tool – Election Leaflets – for the forthcoming 2013 federal election. As we all know, the Prime Minister has announced that the next election will be held on the 14th of September. We’re already neck deep in an unprecedentedly long election […]
Posted in Announcement, ElectionLeaflets.org.au
Tagged 2013, Ads, electionleaflets, federal election, flyers, leaflets, posters
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