Today a simple new feature was added, a complete list of RSS feeds for the Territorial Authorities on this site. The aim is to make the feeds more relevant for folks who are interested in just the consultations in their region.

Where a council has an RSS feed for their consultations it will be added, although the majority do not have feeds (let alone feeds for consultations) so consultations.org.nz will fill this gap as best as possible.

consultations.org.nz is live. After a three week gestation period, the site was ready for release, debuting with two Wellington City Council consultations.

The site provides council consultations in HTML format. Although this is required under the New Zealand Government Web Standards, it is not always possible due to resource constraints within Councils. Most importantly, consultations.org.nz allows members of the public to express their opinions regarding the consultations online.