The Prime Minister’s letter reconfirms Australia’s commitment to OGP
On 24 November 2015 Prime Minister Turnbull wrote to the Open Government Partnership that Australia was recommitting to membership and would complete joining requirements by July 2016.
The Australian Government had been invited to join the OGP along with founding members in September 2011. In May 2013 the Government first notified its intention to join. The Prime Minister’s announcement follows two and a half years of further consideration.
The Prime Minister’s letter reads:
Dear Open Government Partnership Co-Chairs
I am writing to advice that the Australian Government will finalise Australia’s membership with the Open Government Partnership (OGP).
Over the coming months the Government will work with civil society to develop the Australian Government’s National Action Plan to be submitted by 1 July 2016 as agreed with the OGP Support Unit.
The goals of the partnership directly align with Australia’s long and proud tradition of open and transparent government.
Yours sincerely,
[signed] MALCOLM TURNBULL
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s letter to the Open Government Partnership, 24 November 2015
Until the prime minister works with all Australians, not just those that agree with him, we are living in a totalitarian country with no hope for those that do not earn enough to ignore how they are being rorted, stolen from, deprived, and abused from its own government. When will the millions given to the criminal Hillary be given back? That needs to come out of Auspols pockets. When will Australians have the same rights to super that Auspol has? Why are some of us (me included) starving, with no power, no sewrage, NO HOME no hope while immigrants have centrelink, a business and has the government paying all for all their wives? And no, I am postgrad qualified over 50 with no work, and no hope. Turnbull’s vision of an open government? ha!!! Auspol needs to be called into account. Now.