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The purpose of The Wonkery is to help people develop submissions (and send them in) to Australian government inquiries through announcements and discussion.
Wonkers-in-residence might disagree with what you say to government, and not only defend your right to say it, but encourage you to say it.
Posts and comments (apart from the occasional editorial like this one) will usually cover one or more of the following items…
- Notices of government (and departmental inquiries);
- Preliminary musings of Wonkers-in-residence while preparing their own submissions;
- Notice and/or review of particularly interesting submissions as they are made available on government websites
- Reviews of parliamentary (majority and minority) reports once the inquiry has finished, particularly if there is a gross mismatch between the submissions and the report.
"The Wonkery" takes over the role of the Balneus parliamentary submissions page and related posts… because it is just to hard for one individual to keep track of everything… at least until Australian governments and their agencies provide nice consolidated RSS feeds.
The Wonkery is intended as a pun on “rookery”, a place where birds of a feather gather… even if they squabble a bit.
