The Victorian Parliament Website has a current survey about how good it is.
Personally, I think the Victorian site is far inferior to the federal parliament, the survey is in a particularly closed format, and, what is surprising, is that the survey is not even hosted by government, but by surveymonkey.com.
Anyway, have a look around the […]
The Victorian Competition and Efficiency Commission has an inquiry on enhancing Victoria’s livability, with submissions closing 2008-01-31. There are a number of very interesting submissions, and it will be interesting to see the Brumby government response.
Important URLs include:
Main inquiry page
Terms of Reference
Issues Paper
Received Submissions
As expected, submissions from developers are big on focussing on more land […]
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The Australian Government has released a discussion paper – "Increasing Indigenous economic opportunity" on the future of the CDEP and Indigenous Employment Programs, with hearings over the next two weeks, and submissions due 2008-06-12
The discussion paper focuses on how the Community Development and Employment Projects (CDEP) and the Indigenous Employment Program (IEP) can be reformed […]
Australia’s Future Tax System is the subject of a forthcoming public consultation, announced 2008-05-11 by the treasurer, with an initial discussion paper released by the end of July 2008, and giving the final report to the Treasurer by the end of 2009.
Announcement: 2008-05-13
Terms of Reference: Terms of Reference
Email: afts@treasury.gov.au
Postal: Australia’s Future Tax System, The Treasury, […]
Another Clayton’s consultation in Victoria: this time Lyn Kosky, Public Transport Minister, is after comments about "train pain".
Talk about making it difficult to ensure your comments go to the right spot! It’s almost as if the lack of organization is intentional. Geeks would say the Minister wants all criticism directed to /dev/null (a.k.a. a black […]
The Attorney-General announced (2008-05-16) a review of the Personal Property Securities Bill, which involves taking a security interest in all types of property other than real estate, such as for cars, boats and livestock, with submissions due 2008-08-15
The aim is to replace 70 distinct pieces of state and federal legislation as part of KRudd’s deregulation […]
As noted elsewhere, the RSS feeds for the minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research via the Australian Government Media Announcements feed are particularly useless, so I used the feedback page to express my disappointment and hope that it might leed to improvements.
Text of my feedback to ministry.industry.gov.au is over the fold.
There is some encouraging feedback I received, within 24 hours (and only 3 working hours), from a public servant at egov.vic.gov.au, which has the task of improving "citizen access and transformation" to/of government. My letter and the response are detailed over the fold.
My note to webmaster@egov.vic.gov.au was prompted by trying to search for an easy […]
Does anyone know of other inquiries, state or federal, parliamentary or departmental, that are open and not yet covered in this blog?
Does anyone know of good concise RSS feeds (or web pages) for departmental or state government announcements of inquiries or reports that have just been tabled?
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