On 19/4/21 11:07 am, Stephen Loosley wrote:
From pen and paper to Wickr: the battle to save government decisions
By Shane Wright April 19, 2021
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/from-pen-and-paper-to-wickr-the-battle-to-save-government-decisions-20210416-p57jqr.html
Laws made for the days of pen and paper could allow the nation’s
most senior ministers and public servants to avoid scrutiny of their
decisions ...
Unauthorized destruction of Commonwealth records is a crime. But the
penalty is only a fine of about $4,000
http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/aa198398/s24.html
Perhaps the fine should increased by an order of magnitude, and tied to
the criminal's ability to pay. So a cabinet minister would pay about
half a million dollars.
ps: I was on the committee which wrote the guidelines for dealing with
electronic records in 1995:
http://web.archive.org/web/20020601155855/http://www.defence.gov.au/imsc/edmsc/iedmtc.htm#RTFToC5
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Tom Worthington, http://www.tomw.net.au
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