[LINK] e-Tabling Documents for Australian Parliament

[Karl Auer]

On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 09:24 +1000, Tom Worthington wrote:
>      "... Documents should be printed created in accordance with 
> standards prepared by the Joint Publications Committee ..." 
> http://www.dpmc.gov.au/guidelines/docs/guidelines_gov_docs.pdf

"printed created"?

> These complex and expensive procedures could be replaced with a
> simpler procedure, where one electronic copy of the document is
> delivered to parliament and distributed via the parliamentary web
> site.

At least one paper copy -and preferably several - should be distributed
to an archival site. Paper has some chance of surviving to inform our
descendants - digital data does not.

Regards, K.

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