Speaking from my experience as a journalist, this amending legislation will distort information going to Government. If a person uses freedom of information at present to ask what documents are going to Government, he or she gets all of them. Information is available to journalists in its entirety. Before the Freedom of Information Act – the same position will apply when this legislation is passed – a single document could come into the public domain through leaking or by accident so a journalist might create a distorted image of how the Government is making a decision. That is the great beauty of the Freedom of Information Act. The situation does not exist whereby a Department, Minister or spin doctor could use his or her power of selective leaking to distort information that will end up in the public arena.