OpenAustralia Foundation Limited

The OpenAustralia Foundation operated as a modern library, curating and maintaining extensive collections of governmental and parliamentary information, accessible through our web services. This setup supported a healthy democratic culture by empowering people with the knowledge needed for direct, positive political involvement. Through openaustralia.org.au and TheyVoteForYou.org.au, people accessed detailed records of parliamentary speeches and voting behaviours. Our PlanningAlerts.org.au service informed the public about local planning proposals, facilitating community engagement in urban development. We further democratised information access with RightToKnow.org.au, where people found and requested public interest information from federal, state, or local authorities, fostering participation and accountability in governance. We also shared morph.io, our web scraping tool, to help people gather data from different sources, benefiting a wide range of people. Our archived services, ElectionLeaflets.org.au and OpenGovernment.org.au, preserved historical election materials and documents from the Australian Open Government Partnership Civil Society Network s efforts championing public development of Open Government Partnership initiatives, ensuring ongoing access to these valuable resources. Overall, we remained committed to organising, maintaining, and making these vital collections available to the public, working towards a more informed, engaged democratic culture.