[LINK] Rational Government Archival Practice?

[Roger Clarke]

I was looking for a report on carbon trading that I remembered had 
been submitted to the Howard Govt by the Dept of PM&C last year.

I Googled with <"emissions trading" site:pmc.gov.au>.

That got me
http://www.pmc.gov.au/consultation/emissions/index.cfm

Which wasn't what I wanted, so I clicked 'Publications and Reports'.

This displayed at the bottom:
Archived Publications and Reports
Publications and reports previously published by the department have 
been archived on the National Library of Australia PANDORA Web 
Archive.

That led with a couple more clicks to:
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/79623/20080117-2207/dpmc.gov.au/index.html

and hence
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/79623/20080117-2207/dpmc.gov.au/emissions/index.html

That seems like an appropriate approach to me, i.e. transparent and 
efficient.  I do hope it's been standardised.

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