Back in mid-March, we announced that They Vote For You was getting into the Open Government Partnership (OGP) action. We started by developing policies related to the Anti-Corruption Working Group:
We then looked at the Public Resources Working Group and came up with these:
- For using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- For a minerals resource rent tax
- For increasing transparency of big business by making information public
This week we’ve been going through our list of over 90 existing policies that touch on these and the other three working groups: Access to Information, Civic Participation and Public Services. Here’s what we found:
- For increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- For increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- For increasing freedom of political communication
- For protecting whistleblowers
- For increasing surveillance powers
- For more scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- For requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- For storing all citizens’ telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- For greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- For requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- For increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- For letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- For increasing the diversity of media ownership
- For increasing trade unions’ powers in the workplace
- For a federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
Do any of these inspire you to get involved with the OGP process?
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