[English] Open Australia Org

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

Hi all,

www.OpenAustralia.org

"What's all this about?"

 OpenAustralia.org make it easy for people to keep tabs on Parliament.

OpenAustralia combines Hansard (the official record of all of Australian
parliamentary debates - effectively a transcript of the proceedings of the
parliament), with information about our members of parliament, making it
much easier to: follow a particular debate or theme - eg, climate change 
keep an eye on what your local member is saying and doing & comment on and
debate the issues yourself with other members of the site. It's run by non
partisan volunteers as a free digital-democracy-resource for Australia.


At www.OpenAustralia.org you can:

Find out more about your Representative
(Enter your Australian postcode here:)

Search:   current Parliment documents for keywords
Popular searches today: climate change, environment, office 

Sign up to be emailed when something relevant to you happens in Parliament

Read and comment on:

The most recent House debates: (That is, read who said what etc)

Assistant Treasurer
Parliamentary Staff
Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other 
Legislation Amendment (2008 Budget and Other Measures) Bill 2008
National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical and Other Benefits-Cost 
Recovery) Bill 2008
National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme) Bill 2008
Indigenous Affairs Legislation Amendment Bill 2008
Tax Laws Amendment (2008 Measures No. 3) Bill 2008
National Fuelwatch (Empowering Consumers) Bill 2008; National Fuelwatch 
(Empowering Consumers) (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2008
Ministerial Statements
Business
Governor-General's Speech
Questions without Notice
Personal Explanations
Auditor-General's Reports
Matters of Public Importance
Leave of Absence
Committees etc etc 
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OpenAustralia news

Public Launch of OpenAustralia Beta

We're open to the public! After more than six months work by a small group 
of volunteers working in their spare time, we're launching OpenAustralia 
to the public.

With OpenAustralia we hope to strengthen our traditions of fair and open 
democracy in Australia. This site is about giving you, the Australian 
public, the tools to easily follow what goes on in Parliament, and be just 
a little better informed.

You'll hopefully discover with OpenAustralia that what goes on in 
Parliament is much more interesting than you might imagine - entertaining 
even!

What you see on TV or in newspapers is only a small part of what goes on. 
OpenAustralia is about giving you access to all the other stuff in an easy 
to use and friendly form.

This site is still in beta, which means that we're not totally confident 
that we've ironed out all the small problems, but we didn't think it fair 
to keep it from you any longer. If you do find something that looks wrong 
please email us at contact at openaustralia.org.

Enjoy!

Posted on 16 June 2008 at 09:00:00 by Matthew 
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Cheers Mathew
Stephen Loosley
Member, Victorian
Institute of Teaching