CC-licensed projects
Nic Suzor, Creative Commons Australia

Hon Peter Costello MP
Statistics are so vital to our national life, and have made such a key contribution
to nation-building, that they lend themselves easily to structural analogies. They are the
cornerstone of our decision-making, the very building-blocks of research, planning and
discussion within governments and the community and are one of the important pillars
of our democracy. Ready
access to those statistics for those that need them
is of paramount importance….In June this year I was happy to announce that, as a
result of a May 2005 Budget initiative and consistent with the Government's policy of
Backing Australia's Ability, many ABS publications would be available free of charge
from the Internet. These publications previously cost between $20 and $40 each. Today,
as a tribute to the people of Australia, and to enable them easier access to information
about our country, and in celebration of the ABS Centenary, I have great pleasure in
announcing that as from next Monday morning, ALL
the statistical information
published online by the ABS will be available free of charge. This means that
electronic versions of all ABS publications, and all Census data, time series data and
spreadsheets may be downloaded from the ABS web site, absolutely free.

Australian
Bureau of
Statistics
Now all CC-BY licensed

FULL DATA CUBES AVAILABLE FOR REUSE
(AUSTRALIA HAS A VERY LOW THRESHOLD FOR ORIGINALITY...)

How did we
get there?
Not exactly sure...
Lots of advocacy
Interest from people within
Government - push from
inside

ABC POOL
“IT'S BEST IF YOU LICENSE YOUR WORK EITHER CC BY OR CC BY NC AS THIS ALLOWS US TO PLAY EXCERPTS AND WILL MORE LIKELY LEAD TO INCLUSION IN PUBLIC POOL PROJECTS.”

Stick this in
your memory
hole
Tristan Clark
Aduki independent press
Full PDF under CC BY-NC

Greens Blog
CC BY-SA 2.5 AU
“Our hope is that over time
[the GreensBlog] can
become an effective space
for open democracy”

YouDecide
2007
Citizen journalism initiative
established by SBS, On Line
Opinion, Brisbane Institute,
and QUT Creative Industries.
CC BY-NC-ND 2.5 (AU)

ACRO
Repository of
reusable digital
multimedia
materials
CC and FFE
licences

PICTURE AUSTRALIA

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