Not that many people are going to care other than the recipients, and me apparently, but it turns out that titles, postnomials and terms of address are a whole ball game that I dropped the ball on.
One of the things claude mentioned to me in the course of fixing something else was that a federal MP's surname was listed as "OAM", not their actual surname - oops.
PIPE is a hobby project. It's just one person, Alison, and an AI assistant called Claude. Not a company. Not a newsroom. Just the two of us, reading bills and trying to explain them properly.
This week we rewrote a sentence. A Queensland bill said "authorised persons" can remove abandoned boats. That's true, but it's a legal term most people have never heard. We changed it to "police, fisheries inspectors, or transport officers." Same fact. Now it actually makes sense.
We found a bug in our own site this week — and fixing it taught us something worth explaining, rather than just quietly patching it in the background.
Every bill on PIPE gets a progress bar showing how far it's come through parliament. One Queensland bill — about setting up a new child protection watchdog — said "this bill is still being discussed," but its progress bar was filled almost all the way to the end. That's a contradiction, and it sent us digging.