The OpenAustralia Foundation and Google invite you to this free all-weekend hacking extravaganza for anyone interested in creating a mashup for the MashupAustralia competition or hacking on the OpenAustralia website. Build a cool application using data from http://data.australia.gov.au, enter it into the MashupAustralia competition and and you’re in with a chance to win prizes, including […]
About two months ago we put in an application for funding to the auDA Foundation for a new project called “Planning Alerts”. The ideas is simple. Wouldn’t it be great if you could go to a website and put in your email address and where you live and get updates of any development applications in […]
Who do you think the brand new OpenAustralia Foundation should bank with? This could either be a traditional bank or a credit union. We trust your combined wisdom. Stuff we are looking for: Is Australian Offers Internet banking Has an ethical investment policy Is nice to non-profits like us OpenAustralia Foundation’s registered office is in […]
Last Saturday, the 13th of June, was OpenAustralia’s inaugural hackfest, bringing together developers and users of the OpenAustralia.org website. Fifty people volunteered their time and effort to help open Australia’s democracy and make it easier for Australians to keep tabs on their representatives in Parliament. The day kicked off just after midday with Matthew giving […]
A recent remark about government users of our website, and our recent exchanges with the DPS made me wonder, just how many people@gov.au are signed up for our email alerts as part of their daily routine? I asked Matthew to take a look at the stats, so he did, and this is the result. So […]
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 […]
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 […]
It’s only a temporary affair but OpenAustralia is not getting updated with the latest speeches in the House of Representatives and the Senate. Why? Well, let me explain. It’s been a tumultuous few weeks behind the scenes here. If you use OpenAustralia you’re probably blissfully unaware of some changes that have taken place at the […]
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 […]
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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