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Openaustralia​.org goes live

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• By:Maxine
• June 15, 2008
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With the launch last night of OpenAustralia​.org, we now have our very own edi­tion of TheyWorkForYou, thanks to the hard work of a group of local vol­un­teers, plus the good peo­ple of mySo­ci­ety, who build the tech­nol­ogy on which the sys­tem is based.

OpenAustralia com­bines Hansard (the offi­cial record 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

Would be great to see a site like this take on some­thing of the energy of Whirlpool for exam­ple. That would get them sit­ting up and lis­ten­ing. Would also be nice to see a project like this get a bit of sup­port from main­stream Australian media. Will we ever see the day where a news­pa­per urges its read­ers to “Follow this story at OpenAustralia”?

One response to “Openaustralia​.org goes live”:

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