Yes. AfC is considering a newsletter which I guess counts as "regular announcements". Several of the minutes were held up pending legal advice, otherwise they tracked reasonably well (typically a week or two after the meeting, modulo that legal issue plus one delay while AfC was uber-busy overseas).
It is a bit rough on the existing committee members standing for re-election because it is hard to see what they have been up to for the last six months coming into the election.
Cheers. I noticed and appreciated it at the time.As for getting matters raised with LA I am not sure a local member is going to be any more accessable or effective than emailing committee at linux.org.au.
I have a policy of sending at least an ACK if I see an alien message and nobody else has ACKed it.