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<h1><a href="about.php">About/FAQ</a></h1> |
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<h4 class="subheader">Lorem ipsum.</h4> |
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<h2> What is this? </h2> |
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Disclo.gs is a project to monitor Australian Federal Government agencies |
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compliance with their <a href="http://www.oaic.gov.au/publications/other_operational/foi_policy_frequently_asked_questions.html#_Toc291837571">"proactive disclosure requirements" to make a transparency league table as suggested by gov2 taskforce http://gov2.net.au/blog/2009/09/19/a-league-ladder-of-psi-openness/</a>. |
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<h2> Attributions </h2> |
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National Archives of Australia, Australian Governments’ Interactive Functions Thesaurus, 2nd edition, September 2005, published at http://www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/thesaurus/index.htm <br/> |
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data.gov.au http://data.gov.au/dataset/directory-gov-au-full-data-export/ <br/> |
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directory.gov.au <br/> |
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australia.gov.au http://australia.gov.au/about/copyright <br/> |
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<h2> Open everything </h2> |
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All documents released CC-BY 3 AU |
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Open source git @ |
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<h2>Organisational Data Sources</h2> |
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http://www.comlaw.gov.au/Browse/Results/ByTitle/AdministrativeArrangementsOrders/Current/Ad/0 defines departments |
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Agencies can be found in the Schedule to an Appropriation Bill (budget), Schedule to FMA Regulations and/or Public Service Act.<br> |
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http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/flipchart/docs/FMACACFlipchart.pdf summarises these. view-source:https://www.tenders.gov.au/?event=public.advancedsearch.home is great for the suspended/active status<br> |
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Fraud in gov depts by Fairfax Media http://www.smh.com.au/national/public-service-keeps-fraud-cases-private-20110923-1kpdr.html |
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When defining the hierachy, this system is designed towards monitoring accountablity. Thus large agencies that have registered their own ABN |
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and have their own accountablity mechanisms/website receive a seperate record as a child of their department. |
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Some small agencies will choose to simply rely on their parent department's accountablity measures.<br> |
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This flows through to organisation name and other/past names. A department that completely accounts for an agency will list that agency as an other child name. |
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As agencies themselves shift between departments, there may be scope for providing time ranges but typically the newest hierarchy will be the one recorded. |
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A department/agency name will be the newest active name assigned to that ABN.<br> |
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ABN information is derived from the ABR. This is the definitive umpire about which former name should be linked to which current name. |
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For example "Department of Transport and Regional Services" became "Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government" (same ABN) |
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however it later split into "Department of Infrastructure and Transport" (same ABN) |
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and "Department of Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government" (new ABN).<br> |
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Statistical information from http://www.apsc.gov.au/stateoftheservice/1011/statsbulletin/section1.html#t2total https://www.apsedii.gov.au/apsedii/CustomQueryx33.shtml |
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and individual annual reports.<br> |
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<h2>Webpage Assessment</h2> |
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Much due care has been put into correctly recording disclosure URLs. Typically the "About", "Co |