I realise that there is another side to this: the sheer weight of requests, often themselves highly political, or near-vexatious, that suck up resources. A lot of this would go away if agencies published everything unless there was a good reason not to. It would save them time and resources and was where the original act and the Framework for Government-Held Information was pointing. Disk storage is infinite. But the mortal fear of having a cockup exposed will always prevent this, and now we have the added factor of dodgy decisions being made for political purposes (e.g. RoNS). Sadly, the Auditor-General doesn't see it as part of their role to police whether agencies are living up to their legislative requirements.