Open Government Partnership Australia

This website contains information on Australia's commitment to open government and engagement with the Open Government Partnership, including Australia’s two National Action Plans.

Australia's Second National Action Plan 2018-20

Australia released its second National Action Plan 2018-20 in September 2018. The Plan contains eight focused commitments to enhance access to information, civic participation, public accountability, as well as technology and innovation for openness and accountability.

2nd National Action Plan

Whistleblower Reforms

Reforms to Australian whistleblower legislation were passed by the Australian Parliament on 19 February 2019. The passage of this legislation completes the final milestone for commitment 1.1. ‘Improve whistleblower protections in the tax and corporate sectors’ in the first National Action Plan.

Commitment 1.1

Open Government

Open Government is a partnership between Government and Civil Society that helps to make Government in Australia more transparent, accountable and publicly engaged.

Open Government Forum

Open Government Partnership

The Open Government Partnership formally launched on September 20, 2011. Since then, 79 OGP participating countries and 20 subnational governments have made over 3,100 commitments to make their governments more open and accountable.

Consultations

Australia’s leadership

Australia has been a member of the Open Government Partnership since 2015. In that time we delivered two National Action Plans, comprising a total of 23 commitments, which have helped to make Australia more transparent, accountable and publicly engaged.

National Action Plans

Latest News

Toward finalising Australia's 3rd National Action Plan

14 July 2020

Assist the Open Government Forum to refine draft concepts of the ‘Create Phase’ of development for Australia’s 3rd National Action Plan.

Report on the Create Phase - now published

10 July 2020

Citizen and civil society contributions to workshops of the ‘Create Phase’ are now published as the Create Phase report.

National Action Plan 3 development extended and progress report

04 June 2020

Last week the Co-chairs of the Open Government Forum agreed to resume the NAP 3 development process after an eight week pause associated with COVID-19.