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I disagreeFree access to criminal and civil court records for Australian federal and state courts, boards and tribunals. Caveat: The identity of victims would be withheld at their request.
Free access would enable the creation of Australian versions of watchdog services such as public.resource.org in the US.
[Note that currently electronic court records are available for a fee in limited form.]
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I disagreehttp://australia.gov.au/topics/australian-facts-and-figures/public-holidays
Presently an index of largely state/territory-authored PDF/HTML calendars.
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I disagreewww.directory.gov.au Presently output as HTML, RTF/PDF and dead trees. Proposed additional outputs: - Microformat hCard - RDFa - X500 connectors - Per-record metadata - RSS - API > JSON/XML whitepages.com.au appears to attempt to re-use this at: http://www.whitepages.com.au/wp/initGovSearch.do?subscriberName=&location= Distributed agency authorship may get more buy-in when agencies (and interested third parties) ...more »
Presently output as HTML, RTF/PDF and dead trees. Proposed additional outputs:
- Microformat hCard
- RDFa
- X500 connectors
- Per-record metadata
- RSS
- API > JSON/XML
whitepages.com.au appears to attempt to re-use this at:
http://www.whitepages.com.au/wp/initGovSearch.do?subscriberName=&location=
Distributed agency authorship may get more buy-in when agencies (and interested third parties) can acquire and re-consume this authoritative, centrally-served data. Publish once and re-use in many locations.
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I disagreeSome old data is provided at http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/publicationsstatisticsforms/aadtdata/index.html?plid=trafficvolume but it is "© COPYRIGHT ROADS AND TRAFFIC AUTHORITY 2003" No license is given so it must be All rights reserved. 1. The data needs a much looser licence (this is just data it should be copyright free) or to be release into the public domain. 2. We need current real time data, not just historical ...more »
Some old data is provided at http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/publicationsstatisticsforms/aadtdata/index.html?plid=trafficvolume
but it is "© COPYRIGHT ROADS AND TRAFFIC AUTHORITY 2003"
No license is given so it must be All rights reserved.
1. The data needs a much looser licence (this is just data it should be copyright free) or to be release into the public domain.
2. We need current real time data, not just historical data.
(and it appears that they already have this data "Traffic Volume publications containing the AADT volumes plus hourly and daily traffic counts with maps showing survey locations may be purchased from the RTA library.")
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I disagreehttp://adl.brs.gov.au/forestsaustralia/publications/sofr2008.html
This would be a good set for research if it was made available for use, currently all the raw data is locked up and not available apart from what is published in the SOFR.
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I disagreehttp://www.dmp.wa.gov.au/1521.aspx
These are currently published in a combination of PDF, MS Word and MS Excel formats depending on the type of data within each statistics set.
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I disagreehttp://www.psma.com.au/products/gnaf.cfm According to the PSMA website: "G-NAF® (Geocoded National Address File) is Australia’s first authoritative geocoded address index for the whole country, listing all valid physical addresses in Australia. It contains approximately 12.6 million physical addresses, each linked to its unique geocode (that is, the specific latitude and longitude of the address). Data used to build ...more »
http://www.psma.com.au/products/gnaf.cfm
According to the PSMA website:
"G-NAF® (Geocoded National Address File) is Australia’s first authoritative geocoded address index for the whole country, listing all valid physical addresses in Australia. It contains approximately 12.6 million physical addresses, each linked to its unique geocode (that is, the specific latitude and longitude of the address). Data used to build G-NAF® comes from contributors that include the Australian Electoral Commission, Australia Post, state, territory and Australian Government mapping agencies and land registries.
G-NAF® is the single, national authoritative source for:
* validating customer-provided addresses (assisting in fraud prevention)
* identifying the geocode for spatial analysis (creating maps to plot and analyse services and customer locations), and
* assembling and maintaining large address files (reducing duplication and costs, increasing efficiency and improving mail delivery)."
Enabling access to this dataset would facilitate the linking of georeferenced information (datasets, reports, etc.) to relevant locations for mapping and research purposes.
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I disagreeThere can be significant and dangerous gaps within the state spatial framework data sets (eg Roads, Addresses, Features). This appears to be due to administrative anomalies associated with how spatial datsets are assembled (in Victoria its always been bottom up with data coming from local governmnets, usually as a sideline in the arrangements for titles, rates, transfers etc.) Many of these are legacies of land management/ownership ...more »
There can be significant and dangerous gaps within the state spatial framework data sets (eg Roads, Addresses, Features). This appears to be due to administrative anomalies associated with how spatial datsets are assembled (in Victoria its always been bottom up with data coming from local governmnets, usually as a sideline in the arrangements for titles, rates, transfers etc.) Many of these are legacies of land management/ownership and leasing arrangements and may also reflect practices of the days before there were digital datasets.
The bottom line is that no matter who owns or operates the land, or is responsible for securty arrangemenst within Airports, when people have mobile phones they can and do dial 000, and the emergency services do receive calls relating to 'privately' manged parts of the State, and may find themselves searching a location, address, feature or road name that does not exist in the state map base.
Sometimes it appears that entities such as private developers, Resort Management Boards, Airports, Parks Management and a multitude of others do not comprehend that they they have obligations to supply data or to act as custodians, and uunfortunately there is no clear legislation on this subject.
Consequently emergency services can be faced with situations where the statewide map data has 'holes' with missing data for some properties, roads or developments within even airports (federal administration), some of which include non-airport functions such as commercial or subleased premises.
It is my view that every organization managing land must be entailed with legal obligations relating to the supply and maintenance of quality spatial data for incorporation into state map files, including all properties, roads, addresses, occupancies. Also, much of the addressing that has been inherited in private developments including airports does not fit with addressing standards (AS/NZS4819). This means the local governmnet in which the Airport sits, and the state map maintainers has no map of which building belongs to which address, and often no property polygons with which to assign numbers. New streets and roads that are created in airports are often never advised to either the local Governmnet or the Stae mapping agencies, as it may never have gone through the state planning process.
We need to ensure that for ALL development we get property polygons overlaid into the property layer, and updates to the properties, that the roads are named and put into the satte Map Transport layer properly.
This requires also good communication process in place with the Airport corporation both from a Council perspective and a state perspective.
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I disagreeIt may not strictly be a 'dataset', but as a publisher of policy-relevant research I'd be very keen to see the Commonwealth style manual made available online under creative commons license - it would be simple to do, and those who wanted a hard copy could still buy one. http://publications.gov.au/styleManual.html (The latest version seems to have been prepared by DCITA(??) http://au.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0701636483.html) ...more »
It may not strictly be a 'dataset', but as a publisher of policy-relevant research I'd be very keen to see the Commonwealth style manual made available online under creative commons license - it would be simple to do, and those who wanted a hard copy could still buy one.
http://publications.gov.au/styleManual.html
(The latest version seems to have been prepared by DCITA(??) http://au.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0701636483.html)
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I disagreeRelease the timetables and stop locations from PDF maps and HTML tables from www.action.act.gov.au. Consider adoption of the Google Transit data structure.
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I disagreeThe Review of Government Service Provision was established in 1993 by Heads of Government to provide information on the effectiveness and efficiency of government services in Australia. The first Report on Government Services (the Report) was released in December 1995. The 2009 Report was publicly released on 30 January 2009 and is the fourteenth edition of the Report. The government services included in the Report ...more »
The Review of Government Service Provision was established in 1993 by Heads of Government to provide information on the effectiveness and efficiency of government services in Australia.
The first Report on Government Services (the Report) was released in December 1995. The 2009 Report was publicly released on 30 January 2009 and is the fourteenth edition of the Report.
The government services included in the Report have two important features: their key objectives are common or similar across jurisdictions; and, they make an important contribution to the community and/or economy.
COAG has agreed to a review of the Report on Government Services.
http://www.coag.gov.au/reports/docs/gov_services_review.pdf
http://www.pc.gov.au/gsp/reports/rogs
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I disagreeThe National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) is a not-for-profit company owned by the federal, state and territory ministers responsible for training. It is unique in Australia's education system. It is responsible for collecting, managing, analysing, evaluating and communicating research and statistics about vocational education and training (VET). The Australian Vocational Education and Training ...more »
The National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) is a not-for-profit company owned by the federal, state and territory ministers responsible for training.
It is unique in Australia's education system. It is responsible for collecting, managing, analysing, evaluating and communicating research and statistics about vocational education and training (VET).
The Australian Vocational Education and Training Management Information Statistical Standard (AVETMISS) is a nationally agreed set of rules that facilitates the collection of consistent and accurate information on the vocational education and training (VET) sector.
source: http://www.ncver.edu.au/aboutncver/who.html
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I disagreeIt is difficult and time consuming to access very basic location data for a wide variety of Commonwealth managed, owned, funded or leased facilities within the State of Victoria. The ability to access this data through our own systems is critical for emergency services. However, we often require custodians in Australian Government. To date, these requests have proved an extremely frustrating exercise. Australian ...more »
It is difficult and time consuming to access very basic location data for a wide variety of Commonwealth managed, owned, funded or leased facilities within the State of Victoria. The ability to access this data through our own systems is critical for emergency services. However, we often require custodians in Australian Government.
To date, these requests have proved an extremely frustrating exercise.
Australian Government agencies and Departments please find a way make it easier for emergency services within jurisdictions, by establishing clear responsibilities and become good data custodians. Open up access, publishing national geocoded data sets, up to date, in open formats, with validated (PSMA G-Naf) addresses of names and addresses and geocodes for all aged care facilities run by Commonwealth.
Push the data out, rather than make us try and drag it out of you, and establish clear area sof responsibility.
As an example, for the Department of health and Aging
1. Provide up to date spatial data for community, health and aged care facilities, assuring authortitaive single source, currency, completeness, accuracy.
2. Apply fundamental principals of data custodianship, providing data as national data-sets to a required standard by a single authoritative source within Department.
3. Improve education internally across all Governmnet Departments, particulary among Managers, to teach principles of data access and sharing.
4. Support spatial information quality, standards and recognize it's critical importance to meeting current and rapidly emerging needs for collaborative and multi-sector activities.
5. Clarify at whole of government policy level the release of data for emergency services based on reasonable public expectiations, rather than adopting the default postion of treating it as protected information, for example with reference to Part 6.2 of the Aged Care Act 1997.
6. Evaluate and calrify intent of all legislation with regards to balancing requiremenst for emergency services and a common sense solution, before something tragic happens.
Without this support the energency services and other critical users may not have access to all of the important data, particularly features, facilities, points of interest etc.
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I disagreehttp://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/safety-investigation-reports.aspx?s=1
Another great dataset for research purposes.
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I disagreeLocal government and catchment scale past and present vegetation communities datasets. Both structural and floristic vegetation category type mapping attributes. Streamed to spatial and web users in open source WMS/WFS format which could be used in GIS applications and for mash ups.
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I disagreeThe CSIRO works with government and others to model Australia's future and to give "detailed assessments of development sustainability and the best options to support sustainability in Australia." To support this work the CSIRO has developed the 'National Physical Account and Policy Resource' which includes both the Australian Stocks and Flows Model (ASFF) and OzEcco (an embodied energy model of Australia's economy). ...more »
The CSIRO works with government and others to model Australia's future and to give "detailed assessments of development sustainability and the best options to support sustainability in Australia."
To support this work the CSIRO has developed the 'National Physical Account and Policy Resource' which includes both the Australian Stocks and Flows Model (ASFF) and OzEcco (an embodied energy model of Australia's economy).
The 'Australian Stocks and Flows Framework' in particular is an extremely innovative and important tool for assessing the real state of Australia's environmental and economic health. The framework, which combines data collection with computer-based modelling, has been used to produce reports on everything from the environmental and economic impact of different population growth scenarios to an analysis of the skills base needed for 'green jobs' growth.
I might be wrong, but as far as I can tell the data used in the ASFF isn't available online, and neither are any of the models used. This stuff is too important not to share! Any custom software used in the ASFF should if possible be open-sourced, and the data made available at least as accessibly as in the State of the Environment 'Data Reporting System'.
Read more:
http://www.csiro.au/science/FuturesModelling.html
http://www.environment.gov.au/soe/2006/publications/drs/index.html
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