One login, sovereign infrastructure, live government spending, your data visible and correctable, plain-language law via AusLLM, live in 12 months. Government built for Australians instead of departments. A civic platform, not a portal.
MyGov is a portal that links to separate systems that do not talk to each other. Each payment type has its own form, its own reporting requirements, its own update process. Information already held by one agency must be re-entered for another. The architecture serves the convenience of the departments, not the Australian.
The government holds a vast amount of data about every Australian. Most of it is invisible to the person it is about. You cannot see what is held, who has accessed it, or correct errors. Data is treated as a government asset rather than the citizen's property held in trust by government. That model is wrong.
Government consultation is performative. Submissions disappear. FOI requests are stonewalled for years. Complaints to agencies are lost. Legislation is drafted without the public ever seeing it. The democratic interface to government is broken — and the digital interface that should fix it has not been built.
The People's Portal replaces ATO, Medicare, Centrelink, NDIS, and dozens of other accounts with a single sovereign digital identity. Your data belongs to you. You choose what each agency can see. You can see every piece of data the government holds about you — and correct errors. One login. Every government interaction on one screen, pre-populated with information already held.
Every federal contract over $10,000, every ministerial travel expense, every departmental budget line — published in real time, searchable by any Australian. Not an annual report. A live dashboard. Every subsidy, grant, tax concession, and industry support payment in a searchable register updated quarterly. The SBC construction schedule: every corridor segment, every spending milestone, every variance — public in real time.
Every piece of legislation published on the Portal before it goes to Parliament. Every Australian can submit a view. Every submission is published. The government must respond publicly to submissions that meet a minimum threshold of support. Every parliamentary speech summarised by AusLLM in plain language within one hour. A voter in Broken Hill can search everything said in Parliament about their issue.
Any Australian can log a problem with any government service through the Portal. The problem is tracked, assigned, and resolved — with a public response time commitment. If the commitment is not met, it is published as a failure. No more complaints disappearing. No more being told to call a different agency. The Portal is the single point of entry, and the government is accountable to it.
Every piece of legislation and regulation available in plain English on the Portal. An Australian should be able to read the law that applies to them without a lawyer. AusLLM — the national AI model — powers the plain-language translation, is continuously updated as laws change, and answers questions about what the law means for your specific situation. Your rights, in language you can read.
The People's Portal runs on Australian sovereign cloud infrastructure — not Amazon, Microsoft, or Google servers in Virginia or Singapore. The data of 27 million Australians belongs to Australia. The Digital Australia Authority owns the infrastructure. It is constitutionally protected from sale or transfer to private interests. Open source code — any Australian can see how it works. AusLLM, the national AI model, is trained on Australian data and run on Australian compute.
Not a multi-year programme that produces nothing for a parliamentary term. The Portal is live and operational within 12 months. The MVP launches with identity, data view, and live spending. Modules added quarterly thereafter. The Australian public sees genuine progress within the first year — and continues to see it every quarter for the duration.
The Portal is a civic platform, not a portal. Twenty modules cover the full range of citizen-government interaction: identity, payments, tax, health, education, training, business, property, voting, consultation, complaints, FOI, parliamentary engagement, energy, transport, agriculture, justice, immigration, veterans, and seniors. Each module is open source, sovereign-hosted, and accessible from one login.
| Current — MyGov | MMP — People's Portal |
|---|---|
| Portal linking separate systems. Re-enter the same data many times. | Single sovereign identity. One login. Pre-populated with held data. |
| Data invisible to the citizen. Errors uncorrectable. | Every data point visible. Every access logged. Citizen corrects errors. |
| Government spending visible only in annual reports. | Live dashboard. Every contract $10K+, every ministerial expense, real time. |
| Submissions to consultations vanish. Government rarely responds. | Every submission published. Government must respond publicly above threshold. |
| Law incomprehensible without a lawyer. | Plain English on the Portal. AusLLM answers questions on your situation. |
| Hosted on US cloud infrastructure. Data offshore. | Sovereign Australian cloud. DAA owned. Constitutionally protected. |
| Multi-year IT programmes that deliver nothing for years. | Live in 12 months. New modules quarterly thereafter. |
No memos pinned to this policy yet. When an MMP memo on this topic is published, it will appear here with a short summary. The full memo index is at moralmajority.com.au/memos.html.