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equivalentideas / freedom_of_information_request_boilerplate.md
Created November 24, 2016 05:12
This is boilerplate text you can use as the starting point for a request for documents to under the Australian Freedom of Information Act, or equivalent act in a state jurisdiction.

Dear <Organisation with the information>,

Could you please send through <documents with the information you want>.

If possible, please treat this as an administrative/informal request. Otherwise please proceed with my request as a formal information request under the Act.

Yours faithfully,

``

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equivalentideas / wa_councillors_gender.csv
Created September 16, 2016 05:22
Gender of Western Australian Local Councillors
Council female male
meekatharra shire council 0% 100%
broomehill-tambellup shire council 0% 100%
exmouth shire council 17% 83%
kulin shire council 11% 89%
bassendean town council 17% 83%
leonora shire council 14% 86%
capel shire council 11% 89%
boyup brook shire council 11% 89%
chittering shire council 14% 86%
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equivalentideas / morph_scraping_snippets
Created May 29, 2015 05:29
Morph scraping helpful snippets
https://github.com/planningalerts-scrapers/melbourne/commit/6dba6cd
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equivalentideas / detention-centres.geojson
Created August 19, 2014 06:21 — forked from henare/detention-centres.geojson
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equivalentideas / detention-centres.csv
Created August 19, 2014 06:10 — forked from nickjevershed/detention-centres.csv
name centre latitude longitude
Brisbane ITA Brisbane_ITA -27.401747 153.104782
Curtin IDC Curtin_IDC -17.38101 123.677216
Maribyrnong IDC Maribyrnong_IDC -37.780035 144.880142
Northern IDC Northern_IDC -12.425709 130.900211
Perth IDC Perth_IDC -31.934562 115.958118
Scherger IDC Scherger_IDC -12.633869 141.888428
Villawood IDC Villawood_IDC -33.878279 150.987339
Christmas Island Christmas_Island -10.488044 105.611572
Melbourne ITA Melbourne_ITA -37.841807 144.952068
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equivalentideas / data.tsv
Last active August 29, 2015 14:01
Incidents per week time series chart
week count
2009-09-28 1
2009-10-19 2
2009-10-26 6
2009-11-02 3
2009-11-09 6
2009-11-16 22
2009-11-23 9
2009-11-30 12
2009-12-07 13
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equivalentideas / textexpander-wget-snippet
Last active August 29, 2015 13:56
Simple text expander snippet for wget
wget --recursive --no-clobber --page-requisites --html-extension --convert-links --domains %filltext:name=Domain% --no-parent %filltext:name=Domain%