As I said earlier, I'm not representing the Australian ombudsman; I'm dealing with public information.
As I understand it, a lot of the agencies the ombudsman deals with need information specialists, practitioners, to deal with them. So the easiest way to do that is to create those units within the ombudsman's office. But at the end of the day, it's the ombudsman who signs off on the public reports and signs off in terms of the inquiries and investigations.
As I understand it, the ombudsman moves staff around within his office to meet the changing demands as they occur, but fundamentally there's a starting point of the six units that underpin the major portfolio responsibilities he deals with.