Live national statistics and every performance number government owns — published as it happens, at every level.
One of the six doors of The People’s Portal — the DAA’s key policy. One site, one login: everything your government knows, spends and decides, across local, state and federal.
The live national statistics. Population, migration, housing and vacancy as running series rather than quarterly releases. Prices tracked daily — groceries, fuel by station, rent by suburb — with gouging flagged to the regulator. Every series is versioned: revisions are logged, and nothing is overwritten, so a number quoted last month can always be checked against what the record said last month.
The performance of government itself. Every department KPI against its published target, at every level. Minister delivery scorecards. Budget versus actual, monthly, not annually. Hospital waiting times by postcode. Council response times. Every infrastructure project on the national build, live, with every variance shown — the day it moves, not the year after in an annual report.
One million products, daily. The ABS CPI tracks roughly 87,000 price observations, quarterly — the economy steered by rear-view mirror. This door tracks a million products across all major retailers, fuel at every service station, utilities by retailer and region, rent by suburb, building materials, agricultural inputs, medical costs and insurance premiums — updated daily, with gouging detected by AI and the ACCC alerted automatically.
Personalised to your postcode. The national view and your electorate view: what is being spent where you live, roads funded, hospitals staffed, water allocations, school performance, GP availability and bulk-billing by postcode, every dam level. Every chart’s raw data downloadable.
The budget, live. Revenue, spending by department and program, surplus or deficit live against forecast, debt to whom and at what rate — and your share: enter your income and see roughly what you pay and what comes back. Before every budget, Australians rank their top five priorities; the results are published and the Treasurer must explain publicly where the budget aligns and where it departs, with reasons.
The people running it, visible. The Secretary Transparency Standard: every departmental secretary’s name, face, salary and verified track record on the portal from day one; an annual performance statement assessed by the National Advisory Council and reviewed by the ANAO; quarterly Senate appearances, livestreamed, with public questions.
The statistics and the scorecards are the same discipline: numbers published as they happen, versioned, and owned by the public that paid for them. A government that publishes its measurements in real time cannot quietly miss its targets — and a public that can see prices daily does not need to wait for an inflation print to know what is happening to its groceries.