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            <h1 class="inset-text-grey">About</h1>
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            	{{ brand }} is a project from <NAME> and <NAME> that aims to fix the Interests Register of Australian Federal Parliamentarians. By crowd-sourcing the transcription of thousands of pages of handwritten PDFs, {{ brand }} will make the Interests Register searchable for the first time. The project also highlights the need for reform of interests declarations to give our politicians the best opportunity to win back the community's trust.
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            <h2>Why is this important?</h2>
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                Right now, this is how you can check to see whether a company has had any dealings with an MP or Senator:
                <ul>
                <li>Check the Senate and House of Representatives websites for recent declarations.</li>
                <li>Read every PDF listed - including those with illegible handwriting.</li>
                <li>Personally visit the Table Office in Parliament House in Canberra to get archived entries in hard copy form.</li>
                <li>Weep into the mountain of paper now strewn across your desk.</li>
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                Australia's elected representatives become embroiled in scandal after scandal. 
                Yet the interests disclosure regime is governed by those representatives, for themselves and not the public.
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                The deeper you dig into the entries, the bigger the holes. Categories are missing, disclosures are illegible and guidance is scant. For example, should the fact that declared bottles of wine were actually Grange Hermitage be disclosed?
                And should they be disclosed in real-time, when potential conflicts arise?
                To address the shortcomings prompted by these questions, {{ brand }} will lobby our politicians for a new regime of declarations which is:
                <ul>
                <li>freshly clarified,</li>
                <li>real-time,</li>
                <li>categorised,</li>
                <li>standardised, and</li>
                <li>digital,</li>
                <li>with a goal for public access and analysis.</li>
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            <p>In 2011, a report of the Senate Standing Committee of Senators' Interests chaired by Senator <NAME> determined the committee "will continue to investigate" options such as online forms "and will report to the Senate on this matter in due course". That was the most recent report on the matter. For more information on the current regime, see <a href="http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Senators_Interests/Guidelines_and_Resolutions/Explanatory_Notes">these explanatory notes for statements of registrable interests for Senators</a> and <a href="http://www.aph.gov.au/~/media/05%20About%20Parliament/53%20HoR/532%20PPP/Resolutions/9Oct1984.pdf">this resolution, last amended in 2008, about the Register of Interests for MPs</a>.<commit_msg>Updated info<commit_after><div class="splash" id="about-splash">
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            <h1 class="inset-text-grey">About</h1>
            <p class="lead">
            	{{ brand }} is a project from <NAME> and <NAME> that aims to fix the Interests Register of Australian Federal Parliamentarians. By crowd-sourcing the transcription of thousands of pages of handwritten PDFs, {{ brand }} will make the Interests Register searchable for the first time. The project also highlights the need for reform of interests declarations to give our politicians the best opportunity to win back the community's trust.
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            <h2>Why is this important?</h2>
            <p>
                Right now, this is how you can check to see whether a company has had any dealings with an MP or Senator:
                <ul>
                <li>Check the Senate and House of Representatives websites for recent declarations.</li>
                <li>Read every PDF listed - including those with illegible handwriting.</li>
                <li>Personally visit the Table Office in Parliament House in Canberra to get archived entries in hard copy form.</li>
                <li>Weep into the mountain of paper now strewn across your desk.</li>
                </ul>
            </p>
            <p>
                Australia's elected representatives become embroiled in scandal after scandal. 
                Yet the interests disclosure regime is governed by those same representatives, for themselves and not the public.
            </p>
            <p>
                The deeper you dig into the entries, the bigger the holes. Categories are missing, disclosures are illegible and guidance is scant. For example, should the fact that declared bottles of wine were actually Grange Hermitage be disclosed?
                And should they be disclosed in real-time, when potential conflicts arise?
                To address the shortcomings prompted by these questions, {{ brand }} will lobby our politicians for a new regime of declarations which is:
                <ul>
                <li>freshly clarified,</li>
                <li>real-time,</li>
                <li>categorised,</li>
                <li>standardised, and</li>
                <li>digital,</li>
                <li>with a goal for public access and analysis.</li>
                </ul>
            </p>
            <p>In 2011, a report of the Senate Standing Committee of Senators' Interests chaired by Senator <NAME> determined the committee "will continue to investigate" options such as online forms "and will report to the Senate on this matter in due course". That was the most recent report on the matter. For more information on the current regime, see <a href="http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Senators_Interests/Guidelines_and_Resolutions/Explanatory_Notes">these explanatory notes for statements of registrable interests for Senators</a> and <a href="http://www.aph.gov.au/~/media/05%20About%20Parliament/53%20HoR/532%20PPP/Resolutions/9Oct1984.pdf">this resolution, last amended in 2008, about the Register of Interests for MPs</a>.
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