[LINK] OpenAustralia.org

[Eric Scheid]

FYI:

http://www.webdirections.org/blog/openaustraliaorg-goes-live/

> 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 ³Follow this story at OpenAustralia²?