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\section{Role of visual outcomes models in informing the public about government’s intentions}  So what would good communication of government’s outcomes and intentions look like? The communication format would be: easy to access and understand; enable an overview of government intentions but also to quickly drill-down into the detail; able to be used by a range of stakeholders; and is flexible (in the sense of being able to be quickly amended and kept up to date).These are the  The way in which visual Visual  outcomes models provide a tool to  meet each of these criteria as a way of communicating government intentions is discussed below. \subsection{Easy to access and understand}  Ease of access is crucial if government is to actually communicate with the public. Good intentions, unless effectively communicated in accessible formats  At the end of the day, it does not matter if a government produces all the documentation in the world but it is not able to be easily accessed by those it wish to use it. At the current time we are in the middle of a revolution in the way in which information of all types is presented. Central to this revolution is increased use of visualization as a mode of presentation [References]. This is reflected in the old adage that 'a picture is worth a thousand words'. This trend is obvious when one looks at the way in which information is now presented on the web where there is now extensive use of visualization. [references] The traditional approach to communicating government's planned outcomes is based on a two-step process, text-based documents will be produced, people will read them and subsequently they will come to construct a mental model of what it is that government is trying to do. This approach relies of people being able to read lengthy documents and extract the essense of what is being said. The approach used in visual outcomes modeling is to simplify this two-step process. The concept is for those producing the documentation to immediately attempt to produce a visual model which can function as a type of external mental model for their audience.