Portal:Australia/Federal politics project

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The Australian Federal politics project is a project of Wikinews Australia. Its goal is to produce neutral original reporting on the workings of the federal government, and any events associated with federal politics, including foreign affairs.

The Wikinews community is already creating such articles. For some examples, see:

This project page serves to organise participants and resources to continue this work. Feel free to edit anything, it belongs to the community. Discussion on the talk page.

Contents

Today's articles [edit]

This is a list of articles with a dateline of today, in Category:Australia and Category:Politics and conflicts. You may wish to take a look and see if any need improvement.

Refresh to see latest.


Original source material [edit]

Original source material is media releases, speeches, interview transcripts, blogs, interviews conducted by Wikinews contributors, and anything that hasn't been filtered through another news agency. One of the goals of this project is to use original source material whenever possible, and only resort to sourcing another news agency if an original source cannot be found.

Seeking comments directly [edit]

Contributors to this project are encouraged to seek comments and opinions directly by phoning or emailing politicians, activists, etc, and asking them questions. This is what paid reporters spend their time doing, but anyone can do it - everyone is pushing a point-of-view, and they will give that point-of-view to anyone who rings up, because it is in their interest to get it out into the media. Be bold!

Participants [edit]

Please add your name to this list if you are interested in participating.

Okay, I've signed up. What now? [edit]

Work together. Make use of the resources listed below. If someone creates an article based on a government media release, search the opposition party websites to find different point-of-view on that issue. Ring up your local member and ask them what they think. Search Technorati to find some community opinion. Avoid the mainstream media at all costs.

Resources [edit]

The purpose of this project is to produce reporting on Australian federal politics that does not use other news agencies as sources. The sources listed below are considered to be original sources - media releases, speeches, interview transcripts. These are the sources that other news agencies use to write articles, so we are cutting out the middle-man.

Please add to this section so resources and contacts that you have may be available to everyone.

Hansard (Transcripts of Parliament) [edit]

Everything said in is recorded and appears on the government website very quickly, usually less than a day. You can write articles based on these transcripts (known as Hansards), and it is considered original reporting.

Prime Minister [edit]

Other government media releases and contact details [edit]

Parties [edit]

Gotta get the other point-of-view.

Politicians [edit]

Opinion polling and statistics [edit]

Community groups [edit]

Thinktanks [edit]

Business [edit]

Experts [edit]

Sometimes an opinion from an "expert" can provide an interesting point-of-view. Universities usually have an Experts Database containing contact details for academics who are willing to comment to the media on their area of speciality. All you need to do is send them an email telling them who you are, and asking them a question. The worst they could do is ignore you.....

List of articles produced by this project [edit]

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