Add TAS public authorities (WDTK-12)

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Issue details imported from Jira:

Detail	Value
Assignee	Unassigned
Reporter	Henare Degan
Created	2012-08-11 17:14:15
Updated	2012-09-28 10:48:14

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Imported Jira Comments

Henare Degan - 2012-08-20 13:51:09

http://www.ombudsman.tas.gov.au/right_to_information/process

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Here's our list of authorities https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GAjCrDxfVl8eCDWxH69QpMwfNdbIohaTVE7iAfVLx5U/edit#gid=1148402063

Useful links for checking this:

• List of Tasmanian Government Organisations
• Tas Government Directory listing agencies, sub etc.
• Wikipedia List of Tasmanian government agencies

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• [x] Updating the format of names to match https://github.com/openaustralia/righttoknow/issues/612#issuecomment-244296436 and https://github.com/openaustralia/righttoknow#format-of-state-name-in-authority-names

So, “Department of Education - TAS“ becomes “Tasmanian Department of Education”.

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• [x] Compare the wikipedia list to the gov list, what's better? what's missing?
• [x] Check if all the departments are there
• [x] Check if the subagencies are there
• [x] Hospitals
• [x] Universities
• [x] TAFE?
• [x] prisons
• [x] Schools (leaving for now https://github.com/openaustralia/righttoknow/issues/616 )
• [x] Libraries
  • [x] General libraries https://www.linc.tas.gov.au/locations/
  • [x] Law libraries http://www.lawlibrary.tas.gov.au/about_us
• [x] Check for duplicates
• [x] Check we don't have individuals emails unless necessary
• [x] Check we're not missing any websites
• [x] Light check to see if any notes are malformed
• [x] Local councils
  • [x] Check that they're all there
  • [x] Check emails
  • [x] Check websites
  • [x] Check notes

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I'm finding that neither [the government’s list]() nor [wikipedia’s] is comprehensive. Together they have lists under each department heading. I'll go through department by department checking for what we’re missing. I’ve seen that we're missing one or two from the first few departments already.

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Alright, we're missing a lot of authorities that people would want to request from I think. The gov’s listing has roughly 220 agencies. Our list has just over 100. An initial scan shows a lot that I think should be included so I'm gonna start going through by department methodically and adding agencies when appropriate.

• [x] Education
  • [x] Gov list
  • [x] Wikipedia
• [x] Health and Human Services
  • [x] Gov list
  • [x] Wikipedia
• [x] Justice
  • [x] Gov list
  • [x] Wikipedia
• [x] Police and Emergency Management
  • [x] Gov list
  • [x] Wikipedia
• [x] Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment
  • [x] Gov list
  • [x] Wikipedia
• [x] State Growth
  • [x] Gov list
  • [x] Wikipedia
• [x] Treasury and Finance
  • [x] Gov list
  • [x] Wikipedia
• [x] Gov Owned Companies
• [x] Governor of Tas
• [x] Offices
• [x] Tribunals
• [x] Other
• [x] Authorities
• [x] Boards
• [x] Commissions and Commissioners
• [x] Councils (not local councils)
• [x] Courts
• [x] Government Business Enterprises
• [x] Parliament (are they open for requests?)
  • [x] Parliamentary library?
  • [x] Office of Parliamentary Counsel

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I'm through the education public authorities and I've added about 15 new authorities to our list.

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I'm continuing on, starting at 'health and human services' in the list above.

Here's the sheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GAjCrDxfVl8eCDWxH69QpMwfNdbIohaTVE7iAfVLx5U/edit#gid=1148402063

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Got through to the end of “Justice” department related agencies/bodies. Added another dozen authorities or so. My hands are feeling a bit RSI’d so that's enough for today.

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I'm kicking off again from Department of Police and Emergency Management

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Through the Police and Emergency Management department. A lot of what's under them in the gov’s listings have been moved over to Premier and Cabinet.

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On to Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment authorities

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Finished Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment

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State Growth divisions done, that's the last major department group

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Done Treasury and Finance

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Through another few types of authorities on the list. Checking Tassie Parliament now—also gonna look at what we did in SA for parliament.

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I pushed back the parliament stuff and kept working through other types of authorities. Done Offices, Tribunals, Other, Authorities, and Boards.

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On to courts.

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[x] I've now been through the government’s list and wikipedia and added lots of authorities. We've got another 27 authorities in our list that weren't on those lists. I'm going to go through them now and see if they're real authorities we want to keep.

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Checking Hospitals now. Like SA, hospitals are listed under regional health orgs. But none of them have their own website or contact emails. So I think best option is to list them all under that main health body’s notes, like https://www.righttoknow.org.au/body/sa_health

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I've done the same thing with Prisons, naming them in the notes under Tasmanian Prison Service. And Libraries/

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I’m through all the collecting different types of authorities in my list above. Now I need to check for duplicates and check that we don't have any bad emails, websites or notes.

Then that should be it, minus local councils.

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I'm happy with the list of authorities now. I'll do local councils next. The PlanningAlerts councils data will probably be handy.

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Council list looks good, I'll just check the count against our other data.

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Counts good 👍

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Local councils and the State authorities are ready to load.

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This is done and dusted https://www.righttoknow.org.au/body?tag=TAS_state and https://www.righttoknow.org.au/body?tag=TAS_council