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Only a relatively small sub-set of possible audiences who want to find out about government intentions are comfortable with traditional long text-based forms of documentation. Those who are able to use them most effectively are those who have a fast reading speed and are used to extracting information from large bodies of text. The use of the novel approach of visual outcomes models is likely to be more convivial to a range of audiences currently excluded from the traditional approach to communicating government outcomes.  \subsection{Flexible}  Visual outcomes models have the potential to be a more flexible form of documentation than traditional text-based documents. This is because they allow quick identification of the part of the model that needs to be changed and for just this part of the model to be changed. [probably needs more on this]. If a For instance, one way that  visual outcomes modeling can be used is to indicate priority areas by simply marking up boxes within a visual  model (A, B, C etc.). Using this approach means that priorities can be rapidly changed by simply changing how a box  is being used marked up within the model. (maybe more here, and more clarificaiton)