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

OUTCOMES OF THE OPEN GOVERNMENT FORUM MEETING 22 NOVEMBER 2019

09 January 2020

The Open Government Forum held its fifth meeting for 2019 on 22 November in Canberra to finalise the process for developing Australia's third National Action Plan 2020-22 and to discuss the findings from the Independent Reporting Mechanism's draft End of Term Report for NAP1. Further detail about

Participation, transparency, accountability… What does open government mean to you?

12 November 2019

Australia is currently in the early stages of developing its third National Action Plan 2020-22 ('Discovery' phase) and is keen to hear your views on what open government means to you.

OUTCOMES OF THE OPEN GOVERNMENT FORUM MEETING 9 OCTOBER 2019

11 November 2019

The Open Government Forum held its fourth meeting on 9 October in Canberra to seek agreement to a draft engaement and communications strategy for the develpment of NAP3.