Postcodes in electoral divisions

This is just to notify geeks out there that this data exists. I'm sure this will be of real interest to someone out there, perhaps someone building a mySociety for Australia.

The federal parliament's parliamentary library just published a paper called Postcodes in electoral divisions, and describes the postcodes in federal electoral divisions and the percentage of that postcode that is within a division. Very handy stuff, for a very narrow group of users.

The copyright statement at the end is probably boilerplate, because it certainly doesn't match up with the publication of such a useful dataset, paid for by the public.

PS: It's well worth signing up to library feeds as there's a wealth of useful stuff issued by this organisation. I've particularly appreciated the bills digests, which explain the purpose of bills before parliament in quite neutral language.

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