All organisations have the right to decide how to organise their business and the Government is no different. Our work is complex and in reaching decisions on important economic and social issues we must look at alternative approaches which we debate freely before reaching a joint decision on behalf of the community. The framers of the original Act recognised this when they enshrined in it key protections for Government records which would last five years. It has become increasingly clear that five years is not an adequate period for the purpose of protecting these records.