Those following the post a few weeks ago about the announcement by the Australian Bureau of Statistics that they were going to release their material under a Creative Commons licence will be pleased to know that it's happened.
All content on the ABS website (other than logos and other trade marked content) is now marked as CC BY - including all census data, economy data, fact sheets, analysis, press releases etc.
Hopefully this will just be the start of a general move towards open access by the Australian public sector.
This is a great move by the ABS! Free content is better for society in both the long and the short term. As I live in Australia, I'd now I'd like to see Linux being used widely by the Australian Government and in schools across the country ...
—Thomas Larsen