Notice of Decision
REQUEST BY: Deborah-May Torrens
(Right-to-know.org.au)
REFERENCE:
FOI/2425/003
Freedom of Information Act 1982
Dear Deborah-May,
Freedom of information request ref. FOI/2425/003
1. The purpose of this letter is to give you a decision about access to the document that you requested from the
National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA) under the
Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act).
2. I am an officer authorised by the NIAA’s Chief Executive Officer under section 23(1) of the FOI Act to make
decisions in relation to FOI requests.
Summary
Description
Total
Number of documents that fall within the scope of your request
1
Number of documents to be released to you in full
1
Number of documents to be released to you in part
-
Number of documents exempt from release in full
-
Time frames
3. On 12 July 2024, you requested access to a document in the following terms:
“Under the FOI Act 1982, I am contacting You to requesting a copy of the Executive Order signed by the
Governor-General at the time, Quentin Bryce, on the twenty-nineth day on the Month of May, in the year
two-thousand and nineteen (or "29 May 2019") which established the National Indigenous Australians
Agency.”
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4. On 23 July 2024, the NIAA acknowledged your request and provided you a link to Federal Register of
Legislation where the Executive Order C2019G00474 to Establish the National Indigenous Australians Agency
as an Executive Agency from 1 July 2019, signed by HE Peter Cosgrove on 29 May 2019, is publicly available.
You were requested to confirm if this publicly available version of Executive Order C2019G00474 was the
document you are interested in and whether you wished to proceed with your request. The NIAA did not
receive a response from you in this regard.
5. A decision in relation to your request is due on
12 August 2024.
Document searches
6. The NIAA has undertaken searches of relevant agency document management systems for the document
within the scope of your request.
Material taken into account
7. I have taken the following material into account in making my decision
the terms of your request
the acknowledgement sent to you
document searches undertaken by NIAA advisers
the content of the document identified as within scope of your request
the FOI Act, and
Guidelines made by the Australian Information Commissioner under section 93A of the FOI Act (FOI
Guidelines).
Decision
8. I have identified 1 document which I consider to be within the scope of your request. I have decided to grant access to
this document in full.
9. Your rights to seek review under the FOI Act or submit a complaint are set out in
Attachment A to this notice.
Access to documents
10. The document released to you is
attached.
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Questions about this decision
11. If you have any questions about this notice or NIAA’s FOI process, please contact the NIAA’s FOI Coordinator
at:
Email:
xxx@xxxx.xxx.xx
Post:
Freedom of Information Coordinator
National Indigenous Australians Agency
GPO Box 2191
Canberra ACT 2601
Yours sincerely
Ameet Jamble
Branch Manager
Office of the CEO
8 August 2024
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