Category Archives: OpenAustralia.org

OpenAustralia Hackfest – “What are you up to next weekend?” edition

By Henare Degan | Published: August 30, 2011

Come and join Henare, Tim and Matthew in their basement, er.. we mean Google Sydney, for an awesome weekend of hacking. It’s all a bit last minute. What’s the worst that happens? Nobody turns up and the three of us spend the weekend hacking. That’s okay too. However, it would be much more fun if […]

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Who is the mysterious filtering software provider?

By Matthew Landauer | Published: November 24, 2010

In our last post we brought to attention the strange case of one of our project websites openaustralia.org being blocked from access by employees of the department of Customs. To our surprise this was then picked up by Fairfax media and even raised by Mia Garlick, Assistant Secretary, Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital […]

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Blog stopped at customs in bizarre case of mistaken identity

By Matthew Landauer | Published: October 28, 2010

In a bizarre case of mistaken identity the department of Customs and Border Protection appear to think that OpenAustralia.org‘s republishing of Federal parliamentary discussions constitutes a blog. Last week we were told by a person who works for the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service that OpenAustralia.org was blocked by their IT department’s security policy. […]

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Fox Force Five: OpenAustralia, eDemocracy and Education

By Matthew Landauer | Published: October 4, 2009

I’ve been a volunteer with OpenAustralia for some time now, and I don’t think I’ve talked enough about why I admire this project so much, and why I think it’s so important. It’s because I believe in transparent, accountable and accessible government. It’s because I believe in removing the obstacles which keep people from participating […]

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Open and Shut: Queensland parliament rains on open access party

By Matthew Landauer | Published: August 10, 2009

Monday, August 10, 2009 Queensland parliament rains on open access party Amid all that good Queensland news is this downer that the Clerk of the Parliament there has knocked back a request by Open Australia to allow republication of Hansard online which would enable them to add the search capabilities that have made their Federal […]

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Radio National – Future Tense: e-Australia

By Matthew Landauer | Published: February 5, 2009

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

By Matthew Landauer | Published: January 29, 2009

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

By Matthew Landauer | Published: January 5, 2009

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

By Matthew Landauer | Published: December 20, 2008

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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The Register of Members’ Interests is on our doorstep

By Matthew Landauer | Published: July 3, 2008

A copy of the Register of Members’ Interests for the House of Representatives has quite literarily arrived on our doorstep! We can now begin the task of scanning and transcribing. Please contact us at contact@openaustralia.org if you want to help with the transcribing. If we get enough people this won’t be too big a task. […]

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