Add QLD public authorities (WDTK-10)

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Issue details imported from Jira:

Detail	Value
Assignee	Unassigned
Reporter	Henare Degan
Created	2012-08-11 17:13:38
Updated	2012-09-28 10:48:14

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Imported Jira Comments

Henare Degan - 2012-08-20 13:49:32

http://www.rti.qld.gov.au/

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I'm picking this one up. I'm going to follow the approach I went through for the TAS authorities on https://github.com/openaustralia/righttoknow/issues/18 .

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Sources

• [x] check current list: There's 344 authorities on our current list, that's about the same number as in our Victorian list, and considerably more than in NSW, Tassie, SA etc. So it's probably pretty comprehensive.
• [x] find qld government list of authorities and list of departments
• [x] find wikipedia list of authorities

Cleaning

• [x] Update the format of names to match #612 (comment) and https://github.com/openaustralia/righttoknow#format-of-state-name-in-authority-names

Checking we have everything

Compare the wikipedia list to the gov list to our current list. What's missing?

• [x] Check if all the departments are there
• [x] Check if the subagencies are there
  • [x] Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships
  • [x] gov list
  • [x] Wikipedia
  • [x] Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services
  • [x] gov list
  • [x] Wikipedia
  • [x] Department of Agriculture and Fisheries
  • [x] gov list
  • [x] Wikipedia
  • [x] Department of Education and Training
  • [x] gov list
  • [x] Wikipedia
  • [x] Department of Energy and Water Supply
  • [x] gov list
  • [x] Wikipedia
  • [x] Department of Environment and Heritage Protection
  • [x] gov list
  • [x] Wikipedia
  • [x] Department of Health
  • [x] gov list
  • [x] Wikipedia
  • [x] Department of Housing and Public Works
  • [x] gov list
  • [x] Wikipedia
  • [x] Department of Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning
  • [x] gov list
  • [x] Wikipedia
  • [x] Department of Justice and Attorney-General
  • [x] gov list
  • [x] Wikipedia
  • [x] Department of National Parks, Sport and Racing
  • [x] gov list
  • [x] Wikipedia
  • [x] Department of Natural Resources and Mines
  • [x] gov list
  • [x] Wikipedia
  • [x] Department of Premier and Cabinet
  • [x] gov list
  • [x] Wikipedia
  • [x] Department of Science, Information Technology and Innovation
  • [x] gov list
  • [x] Wikipedia
  • [x] Department of State Development
  • [x] gov list
  • [x] Wikipedia
  • [x] Department of Tourism, Major Events, Small Business and the Commonwealth Games
  • [x] gov list
  • [x] Wikipedia
  • [x] Department of Transport and Main Roads
  • [x] gov list
  • [x] Wikipedia
  • [x] Treasury
  • [x] gov list
  • [x] Wikipedia

Post publish

• [ ] Check emails, if we have an rti addresss already don't worry
• [ ] Get better department addresses
• [ ] Hospitals
• [ ] Universities
• [x] TAFE?
• [ ] prisons
• [ ] Schools (leaving for now https://github.com/openaustralia/righttoknow/issues/616 )
• [ ] Libraries
  • [ ] General libraries
  • [ ] Law libraries
• [x] Check for duplicates
• [ ] Check we're not missing any websites
• [x] Light check to see if any notes are malformed
• [x] check tags (universities)
• [x] Local councils (Henare)
  • [x] Check that they're all there
  • [x] Check for ones that have the same name as councils in other states
  • [x] Check emails
  • [x] Check websites
  • [ ] Check notes

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I haven't seen this before, could be helpful http://www.australia.gov.au/about-government/states-territories-and-local-government

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Queensland doesn't seem to have a nice page listing all these authorities like Tassie did :\ I've emailed them to see if they have a spreadsheet they can send through. Otherwise I'll need to work through there separate listings.

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Dave from the Stories with Data slack just helped me out with this http://governmentbodies.premiers.qld.gov.au/departmentsearch.aspx look like what I'm after.

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I've also found these pages that could have extra authorities:

• http://www.justice.qld.gov.au/corporate/justice-agencies/statutory-authorities
• https://environment.ehp.qld.gov.au/env-authorities/
• https://www.treasury.qld.gov.au/economy/government-commercial-businesses/index.php
• http://www.qld.gov.au/contact-us/postal/index.html
• https://www.health.qld.gov.au/system-governance/contact-us/access-info/privacy-contacts/default.asp

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Also, here's more info for local councils http://www.dilgp.qld.gov.au/local-government-directory amazingly including a csv file :0 https://services.dsdip.qld.gov.au/lgguide/sampledata/councilpostaldetails.txt

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Done a quick check of this directory to our list. Overall it’s really good compared to Tassie.

• found a few missing
• a few names that have changed

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I'm going to start a deeper check by going through the listing in more detail and now adding authorities that we're missing.

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FOI contacts for departments http://www.rti.qld.gov.au/right-to-information-act/rti-ip-agency-contacts

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I've done a first pass on fixing all the names to our standard, and I'll checked that we have all the departments. Some of them have swapped split etc. and I've fixed up there naming to mostly include "Department" which was missing.

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Up to checking we have agencies under Department of Education and Training.

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Up to checking agencies under the Department of Environment and Heritage Protection

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I'm onto Department of Housing and Public Works

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I'm up to Department of Justice and Attorney-General

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We’re up to Department of National Parks, Sport and Racing going from the top. @henare has done a couple from the bottom of the list too 👌

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I've now been through every department and confirmed our list, removed some authorities that are defunct and added some that were missing.

Next step is to get missing emails.

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I'm happy with the list, I'm gonna make the site changes and push this to staging to have a squiz. There are a few more things to check once it's live to make it real shiny ✨ .