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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. ....
There s another piece of the 1990s puzzle that I see even David Thorns missed. The decision to remove income-related rents was also a response to a Business Roundtable complaint that income-related rents in state housing created unfair competition for private landlords and thus kept rents lower than the market rate (sorry, I don t have a reference for this, but I remember it clearly from an essay I wrote on the subject in 1992). So the expectation, even from the Right, was that removing income-related rents would make rents go up, it s just that they would have viewed the initial increase as a market correction or some other cruel euphemism. The AS was meant to soften the blow of that correction, but I can t imagine they didn t see an associated rent increase as inevitable. I certainly did. Though at the time I think there was some rhetoric about how it wouldn t affect rents because the existence of the supplement would make investment in new rental stock more attractive, o ....