[LINK] E-Democracy

[Jan Whitaker]

At 01:28 AM 29/11/2006, Stephen Loosley wrote:
>And, that's what I'm suggesting. If all proposed bills were 
>down-loadable from the one place, and included quick and easy 
>public-response resources, (eg form-pages) then sure, some emails 
>would be junk/rants, but many would be right on the money. And 
>helpful and useful, yet very easy for the public to provide for them.

The first bit is easy.
http://www.aph.gov.au/bills/index.htm

The second bit I doubt will ever be done by government. They do NOT 
want to know, not really. For all their polling, they ignore all of 
it unless it agrees with their own position. I've never seen such 
recalcitrants as politicians!

Jan


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