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Australian Governments' Interactive Functions Thesaurus (AGIFT)
"The Australian Governments' Interactive Functions Thesaurus (AGIFT) is a three-level hierarchical thesaurus that describes the business functions carried out across Commonwealth, state and local governments in Australia" (quote from above website).
Familiarise yourself with this legislation for your role as a Records Management professional.
International students & students out of W.A., please look out for similar legislation. We will be covering this Act in detail in another Unit - Management of Records and Archives.
CUA - Storage, retrieval & destruction for paper & electronic records
Common Use Agreement for outsourcing offsite storage, retrieval & destruction for paper & electronic records in W.A. [29 Mar 2005 to 28 Mar 2015]
At this webpage you will note various GDAs prepared by the NSW's SRO. Pick a few of interest to you and browse through them. You may want to review the GDAs relevant to the site visit you attended, perhaps.
General Disposal Authorities (GDAs) by SRO WA
Familiarise yourself with the following 5 GDAs for State government agencies. Online MSWord versions are possible.
1. General Disposal Authority for Administrative Records (2003, amended 2006);
2. General Disposal Authority for Human Resource Management Records (revised 1999, amended 2001, 2006);
3. General Disposal Authority for Financial and Accounting Records (1996, revised 2006);
4. General Disposal Authority for Local Government Records (revised 2010);
5. General Disposal Authority for Source Records (2009).
Note: That similar publications are available from the other SROs in Australia, please find your State's GDAs and review them.
