Author Archives: Matthew Landauer

Richard Allan – The Power of Information

By Matthew Landauer | Published: June 28, 2008

About a week ago, shortly after the public launch of OpenAustralia, we were contacted by Richard Allan, who has been involved with TheyWorkForYou over a number of years. He used to be a UK Member of Parliament with a strong interest in technology issues. While he was an MP, he even wrote the first version […]

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It’s been an exciting week

By Matthew Landauer | Published: June 22, 2008

It’s now been just under a week since we launched OpenAustralia to the wide world. The response has been overwhelming considering just how little we did to let people know about it. You might have noticed that we’ve seemed a little quiet in the last week (i.e. no new blog posts until today) but that’s […]

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It's been an exciting week

By Matthew Landauer | Published: June 22, 2008

It’s now been just under a week since we launched OpenAustralia to the wide world. The response has been overwhelming considering just how little we did to let people know about it. You might have noticed that we’ve seemed a little quiet in the last week (i.e. no new blog posts until today) but that’s […]

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Libraries Interact: OpenAustralia.org: Web 2.0 meets Hansard

By Matthew Landauer | Published: June 16, 2008

http://librariesinteract.info/2008/06/16/openaustraliaorg-web-20-meets-hansard/  

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Register of Members’ Interests update

By Matthew Landauer | Published: June 4, 2008

We’ve been in email exchange with the Registrar of Members’ Interests, Bernard Wright. He’s been very helpful but the situation with the Register of Members’ Interests falls somewhat short of ideal. Not only, as mentioned before, is the register only kept in one office in Canberra, and not available online for everyone to see, it […]

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Register of Members' Interests update

By Matthew Landauer | Published: June 4, 2008

We’ve been in email exchange with the Registrar of Members’ Interests, Bernard Wright. He’s been very helpful but the situation with the Register of Members’ Interests falls somewhat short of ideal. Not only, as mentioned before, is the register only kept in one office in Canberra, and not available online for everyone to see, it […]

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OpenAustralia going live on Monday 16th June!

By Matthew Landauer | Published: May 28, 2008

It is my very great pleasure to announce that OpenAustralia will be going public and live on Monday 16th June. This will be a fully open public beta. We have one big thing we would still like to get done before the launch. We are in the middle of doing a visual redesign of the […]

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The Register of Members’ Interests is not available online

By Matthew Landauer | Published: May 21, 2008

As you may know, the Register of Members’ Interests says who or what organisations are paying what to members of the House of Representatives. This is a really important document that explains who is financially influencing your Representatives. For this reason, we obviously want to include this information in OpenAustralia. This is what happened when […]

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The Register of Members' Interests is not available online

By Matthew Landauer | Published: May 21, 2008

As you may know, the Register of Members’ Interests says who or what organisations are paying what to members of the House of Representatives. This is a really important document that explains who is financially influencing your Representatives. For this reason, we obviously want to include this information in OpenAustralia. This is what happened when […]

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Meeting at the ABC

By Matthew Landauer | Published: May 15, 2008

Yesterday we had a meeting at the ABC about their forthcoming show, Q&A – “Adventures in Democracy”. It brings a live studio audience together with politicians and gives ordinary people the opportunity to ask questions directly to their representatives. It sounds dry, but it definitely isn’t! The first show is next Thursday (22nd May) at […]

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