Almost every council has one. Almost none allow bulk export, and the fields differ between them -- lodgement date may or may not be distinguished from "properly made" date, the clock may or may not visibly stop during an information request, and status vocabularies are local.

The consequence is that a question every ratepayer, builder and planner would like answered -- how long does my council actually take? -- cannot be answered at all, despite the underlying facts being individually public in hundreds of separate portals.

This is the clearest overlap between this project and Australian Red Tape: the red tape database needs exactly this data to replace its estimated durations with sourced ones, and it does not exist in usable form anywhere in the country.