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This lobbyocracy site is built on wiki-based software. This enables documents to be collaboratively written and rewritten through a common Web site. Anyone can edit any page on the site. We hope that we can create a community of people online to continually update our information and draw the necessary links.

If you find out about a political donation or dodgy back-room deal then feel free to update this site. All you need to do is register, then click the "edit" tab at the top of the page you wish to edit.

If you would like somewhere to start here are a few suggestions:

  • Wanted Pages - these are pages that are linked to but don't exist. You can start to create them based on other entries. Just go to the page and click "What links here" on the bottom left menu
  • Short Pages - pages with very little information in them that you might like to research and expand on
  • Uncategorised Pages - We are starting to categorise the pages but it's a big task, why not help out (we already have these categories.)

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Lobbyocracy.org is a decentralised attempt to map money flows in Australian politics. We feel that by making the links between where the money comes from, and who the money goes to, all Australians can get a better understanding of the forces at play, and from this produce better analysis and better critique.

Lobbyocracy.org is a project of the Australian Centre for Democracy and Justice (http://democracyandjustice.org)

Feature Article of the Month: Kamco

Kamco is a US-based company that won a tender to replace Melbourne's public transport ticketing system with the myki card.

A report tabled to Parliament in October 2007, Auditor-General Des Pearson found that the tender process for the ticket system had been conducted properly. However a draft of the report leaked to The Age found "a series of conflicts of interest, probity issues, backdating of reports and favouring of the eventual winning bidder Kamco, a consortium led by American IT firm Keane."

The Transport Ticketing Authority was set up to run the tender process and oversee the introduction of the myki card. The head of this organisation is Vivian Miners who owned a small amount of shares in the Kamco consortium when it won the tender.

Read the rest of the article here

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