Unfortunately, I'm not in a position to give a very informed answer on that question.
Perhaps I can say that when my office was created, bringing together FOI privacy and information policy, our skills and our expertise was in the FOI and privacy space, but I think the thing that has struck me most of all is that much of the interest within government and in the community is in the information policy space. So nearly all the questions and nearly all the invitations to speak that I get are all about the information policy space.
The other thing we've learned is just how fragmented the whole system was. There were quite a number of agencies, all with considerable expertise, all working individually. I know I've mentioned the Archives office, our Australian Government Information Management Office, the Bureau of Statistics, Geoscience Australia, and so on, but there was very little integration between them. So it's been very hard for us, both in my office but also nationally, to kind of measure how we match up.
But there are some very promising initiatives. For example, there's a government website, called data.gov.au, under which governments are expected to load all of their data sets. So that in itself will drive that common practice element.
If I could just give one example of that, one of the responsibilities of my office is to implement what is called the information publication scheme, which is a scheme requiring all government agencies to publish the same information about their structure, their organization, their personnel, their data sets. It's an extraordinary but unique exercise in a whole-of-government exercise.
The information publication scheme really is the first time that anybody has said that if all 220 government agencies have to publish similar information, this is how you should do it: on your website, this is the icon—the link you should have—so any member of the public can go in there and find their way in, and these are the minimum requirements for every government agency. So it's only now, through this new scheme, that we're really in that process of establishing uniform, consistent, whole-of-government practice and principles.