 The legislation has its genesis in the recommendations of the 1996 Commission on Government – Specified Matter 9.The Commission on Government was itself the result of the Royal Commission into the commercial activities of government and other matters, better known as WA Inc.The State Records Office maintains approximately 15 linear kilometres of archival records, comprising approximately 2 million items and created by over 1,300 individual State and Local Government agencies, many of which are now defunct or have had significant changes in name or function.