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Australia / Public accountability

Find who represents you

Understand the issue. Open the evidence. Follow the public record.

A suburb or postcode can narrow the search. An exact match may need a street address. What you type is not stored.

Browse Australia

Your place in the system

Three layers, one place

The place you live sits inside a council, a state or territory, and the nation. Choose a level to see what it usually looks after.

Not always one office. Most issues involve more than one level, and no single office is responsible for every issue.

Local

Typically responsible for local roads, waste collection, parks and libraries, and for many local planning and building approvals.

Browse local offices

Explore what matters

Start from a topic, end at the source

A sample of topics to show how focus areas connect to issues and evidence. This selection is an example, not a ranking of official priorities.

Preview, sample topic

Housing and planning

Levels that commonly share responsibility:

  • Local
  • State or territory
  • Federal

Related issues and sourced evidence will be listed here once reviewed records are published.

Open this focus area
focus areas
300focus areas100 local, 100 state or territory, 100 federal
historical issues
110historical issuesEach with context, time span and sources
research entries
1,100research entries297 fact or finding entries and 803 question-led entries
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Follow the record

From a question to a recorded outcome

Every step has a date and a source. A real record may leave steps out or take a different path.

Track results

Demonstration, not a real case

A question about a public service

What was requested, what was recorded and which source supports the statement? All text on this card is invented to show how a record is laid out.

  1. 1QuestionOpen

    A member of the public asks what was done about a local public service, and what the record says. The exact wording is kept with its date.

  2. 2Delivered requestOpen

    The request is delivered to the responsible office. The date and method of delivery are recorded. A request that is only scheduled is never shown as delivered.

  3. 3ReplyOpen

    The office replies, or the record shows that no reply was received by the due date set under the adopted programme rule.

  4. 4CommitmentOpen

    If the reply includes a commitment, its exact words, owner and dates are recorded, with milestones where they exist.

  5. 5Recorded outcomeOpen

    The outcome is added only when evidence supports it, with its source and the date it was last checked.

Source passage, demonstration text

“The action is described in this record. The review remains a separate step.”

Open source passage(available in a later release)

The national programme

Planned roles are not elected offices

RepTest keeps two lists apart: the directory of elected and appointed offices, and the planned network of public roles. Neither is shown as complete.

Planned role network

Positions in the design. Not people, and not yet filled.

12,694

planned positions

Primary
6,347
Deputy
6,347

Elected office directory

Names imported so far, with verification tracked separately.

1,656

imported names

Verified offices
0
Appointments
0

Figures come from the RepTest website specification, proposed version 1.0, dated 19 October 2026. Coverage will be shown as verified offices and active roles once they exist. Read how coverage is counted

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