Author Archives: Matthew Landauer

First OpenAustralia hackfest is tomorrow!

What an oversight. I’ve not blogged about our first ever OpenAustralia hackfest which is taking place in Sydney tomorrow, kindly hosted at the offices of Google Sydney. We announced it on the @openaustralia twitter feed, our development mailing list and on a couple of Linux users group mailing list and very quickly filled our capacity […]

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A response from the DPS

After our recent post we finally received a response from the Department of Parliamentary Services (DPS): from: Web, Manager (DPS) <WebManager@aph.gov.au> to: Matthew Landauer date: Fri, May 1, 2009 at 5:46 PM subject: RE: Hansard 23 September 2008 probably error in division Dear Matthew Thank you for your email to the APH web manager identifying […]

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OpenAustralia has a new home on Facebook

If you’re a user of Facebook, like what we do and want to help get more people using the site, come and visit our new home on Facebook. Become “a fan” and through the power of connections tell your friends about OpenAustralia, so that more people can become that little bit more engaged, excited and […]

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Which Australian Politicians are on Twitter?

It had been something that I’d been meaning to do for a while but hadn’t ever quite managed to find the time to do. A conversation between James Dellow (@chieftech), Senator Kate Lundy (@katelundy), Michael de Percy (@madepercy), Karl Roby (@karlroby) and Pia Waugh (@piawaugh) on Twitter a few days ago started it all going […]

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DPS, where the bloody hell are you?

A fairly typical email exchange with the Department of Parliamentary Services (DPS), the administrators for the aph.gov.au website, goes something like this: from: Matthew Landauer to: webmanager@aph.gov.au date: Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:39 AM subject: Hansard 23 September 2008 probably error in division According to the Hansard, Mark Vaile voted in a division on […]

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Radio National – Future Tense: e-Australia

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/e-australia/3181162

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eGov AU: OpenAustralia becomes first to provide the Australian Federal register of Senators’ Interests online

http://egovau.blogspot.com.au/2009/01/openaustralia-becomes-first-to-provide.html

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The Register of Senators’ Interests is now online

Today is a big milestone. We are the first website to make the Register of Senators’ Interests available online. This important public document until now has only been available to the small number of people who were able to visit the office in Canberra where the documents are held. In the Register each Senator declares […]

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The Register of Senators' Interests is now online

Today is a big milestone. We are the first website to make the Register of Senators’ Interests available online. This important public document until now has only been available to the small number of people who were able to visit the office in Canberra where the documents are held. In the Register each Senator declares […]

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Sydney Morning Herald: Interests of MPs to go online – it’s about time

http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/interests-of-mps-to-go-online–its-about-time/2008/12/19/1229189883754.html

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