{"id":10434,"date":"2014-08-15T17:22:27","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T07:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=10434"},"modified":"2014-08-15T17:22:27","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T07:22:27","slug":"reducing-government-red-tape-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2014\/08\/reducing-government-red-tape-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Reducing Government Red Tape&#8230;Or Not&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having recently moved &#8211; and changing electorates in the process &#8211; I&#8217;m going through the usual rigmarole of changing my registered address for just about everything.  A pain in the butt, but a necessary evil.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, given many government agencies share data, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aec.gov.au\/\">Australian Electoral Commission<\/a> (AEC) automatically finds out about your move &#8211; (in most cases) &#8211; and sends you a letter to confirm.<\/p>\n<p>Or is that TWO letters to confirm?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Two letters, dated the same, arriving on the same day, and both seeking to confirm my change of address.<\/p>\n<p>Well done!<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps if we are going to cut red tape &#8211; as our current government claim they will do &#8211; we should perhaps not send the same thing out twice?<\/p>\n<p>Does this happen for every person who moves?<\/p>\n<p>Each of the two letters is also slightly different in content &#8211; which is also a bit bizarre, that two different form letters exist for this purpose.<\/p>\n<p>I guess the most likely explanation is that two different agencies advised a change of address &#8211; (note that one says &#8220;Michael Wyres&#8221;, and the other says &#8220;Michael A Wyres&#8221;) &#8211; but surely in this modern age of computers, we can do some data matching to save some money on postage and administrative effort?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that&#8217;s just too hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having recently moved &#8211; and changing electorates in the process &#8211; I&#8217;m going through the usual rigmarole of changing my registered address for just about everything. A pain in the butt, but a necessary evil. Fortunately, given many government agencies share data, the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) automatically finds out about your move &#8211; (in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[30,100],"class_list":["post-10434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","tag-aecfail","tag-auspol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}