The three branches through one door — Parliament, the Executive and the Courts, at every level of government.
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.
Parliament. Both federal chambers, your state parliament and your council chamber — one door, one search. Every speech summarised in plain language within an hour of being made, with the full transcript one click away, and everything said about your electorate searchable by suburb. Every member’s record is permanent and public: votes, speeches, attendance, expenses — with a consistency checker that flags publicly when a position contradicts what the same member said before. Committees and inquiries, where most of the real work happens, are carried here too: hearings, submissions, findings, and what government did about them.
And the accountability machinery: at least four questions each session drawn by lottery from portal submissions, so the government cannot know them in advance; a non-answer rule, where a question the Speaker rules unanswered gets a written answer within 48 hours; every answer scored for whether it addressed the question, published permanently on the member’s record. Any Australian can submit a presentation or a five-minute video, allocated to the relevant committee within 48 hours with a mandatory response time, and can put questions into a live filtered feed during hearings. A petition above 10,000 verified signatures gets a guaranteed parliamentary debate within 90 days — a debate, not a form reply.
Executive. The branch that governs between elections, and the one currently hardest to see. Cabinet decisions and the reasoning behind them, ministerial directions to departments and agencies, the departments themselves — who runs them, what they cost, how many people they employ — appointments to boards and statutory offices with the reasons for each, and the money actually spent against what Parliament appropriated. Secretaries are named, with salary, track record and an annual performance statement assessed independently, and appear before the Senate quarterly, livestreamed, taking questions from the public.
Courts. Every judgment, free, in plain language beside the authoritative text — because the law includes what courts have decided it means, and Australians currently cannot read that without paying for a commercial legal database. Listings, sentencing outcomes, and the line of authority interpreting each act, linked back to the act itself under Law & Treaties. Free access to the law is not a convenience; a law nobody can read is not a law anybody can obey.