*It was a solitary email that became pivotal to a Royal Commission and a
Parliamentary Inquiry; two investigations that have had significant
implications for government recordkeeping in South Australia and continue
to resonate today.*

The email in question was sent to a ministerial chief of staff on 2
December 2010 and provided information relating to an incident that had
occurred at a school the day before. Through investigations that followed
it became evident that the recipient had saved the message externally to
the Outlook email client and that the original email was, at some point in
time, subsequently deleted.  The computer hard disk was also forensically
wiped, as was the practice when ministerial reshuffles occurred. A forensic
inquiry uncovered metadata that showed that the message had been forwarded
on but was not able to determine to whom it was forwarded.

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They have occurred under the guidance of federal agencies, and under the
umbrella of federal regulations."
Senator Ted Kennedy, in defending trucking deregulation in 1978.

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