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Become a Fundraising Champion for Civic Tech

By Ben Fairless | Published: 2026-02-17

The OpenAustralia Foundation is a small charity with a big footprint. We build free, open-source tools that help Australians understand what their government is doing and exercise their democratic rights. Our key projects are: These tools are used by thousands of people every week. But keeping them running – and improving them – takes resources […]

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Adding your local councillors to PlanningAlerts

By Henare Degan | Published: 2016-07-13

You may have heard that you can now use PlanningAlerts to discuss development applications with your local councillors. With over 5,000 councillors in Australia just gathering the data is a big job. We’ve already done that for about half the councils we currently cover but we need your help to collect the rest. How to […]

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Western Australians – Make a difference before you vote

By Henare Degan | Published: 2012-12-19
Screenshot of SMH article on ElectionLeaflets.org.au

In less than 3 months, over 1.3 million Western Australians will head to the polls to decide their state government for the next 4 years. Voters will soon be bombarded by advertising on TV, radio, billboards and online – that is if it hasn’t already started. But what about those largely hidden weapons in the […]

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Browse local council websites for 15 minutes and make a big difference to PlanningAlerts.org.au

By Matthew Landauer | Published: 2010-06-27

As you may know PlanningAlerts.org.au works by collecting development applications from many local council websites and republishes them in an easy to use way, notifying people of new applications in their area and in that way keeping you informed of things happening near you. To do this we need to know where those applications are. […]

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