ALP has a lot to say, quietly, about transparency and open government
It just appears to have chosen not to say much about these issues during the eight week campaign. Australian Labor Party 100 Positive Policies: Greater Budget Transparency -a bigger more public role for Parliamentary Budget Office. National Information Policy Published in December 2015 includes passing now outdated references to Office of Australian Information Commissioner and Open Government Partnership. Recounts Labor initiatives in government prior to 2013 including Cutler Reportand Gov 2.0 Taskforce that "laid much of the groundwork for Australia’s current data infrastructure (eg data.gov.au)" In summary: Pursue a new, national reform agenda - National Information Policy - to be pursued through a cross-sector Independent Data Council. Establish an Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI) modelled on the data platform in operation in New Zealand that combines anonymised information from a range of organisations (eg health, education, crime data) to offer insights to poli...