Guest post by Service Designer and Researcher, Joanna Hill Since first launching, PlanningAlerts has grown a lot. The number of people writing to PlanningAlerts has crept up and…
Liberal Party Senator Andrew Bragg has stepped up his campaign against the OpenAustralia Foundation. The senator has hired high profile lawyer Rebekah Giles to threaten legal action over…
You may have noticed that your MP and senator voting records are looking a bit different. Voting records are now divided into nine different categories: Voted consistently for…
This week we’re removing councillors, and the ability to write to councillors from PlanningAlerts. We disabled the feature in 2019. Now we’re removing the functionality from the code…
A new way to make FOI requests, for professionals Since we launched Right to Know we’ve regularly heard from journalists, who would love to use Right to Know,…
Today we removed the ability for people to comment on speeches published at openaustralia.org.au We’re taking a pause on letting anyone comment on OpenAustralia because, in our work…
You may have been reading about the unsuccessful amendments to the Coronavirus Economic Response Package that opposition MPs and Senators attempted to pass last week. The amendments related…