Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 11:20:36 +0000
Subject: Freedom of Information request - External review of NDIA FOI 24.25 0253
From: David Wright <[FOI #12767 email]>
To: OAIC - FOI <[email address]>

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Dear Office of the Australian Information Commissioner,

I hereby request an external review from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) of the NDIA's response to my FoI request 24.25 0253  - see https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/average_cost_to_the_ndia_in_resp#incoming-39772

I have sought clarification from the NDIA about the information it has provided to me, through seeking an internal review, but the NDIA has refused this request, which has now necessitated my current request to OAIC.

As you will see from my correspondence with the NDIA, I believe that the information provided to me is incorrect and incomplete.

The decision document states that the cost figures provided to me 'specifically includes the costs coded to a hearing attendance and counsel.'  Nowhere in my FOI request did I specify that costs should be limted to only hearing attendance and counsel - it was intended to cover all costs. This would need to incorporate:
1) All legal costs (both internal agency legal costs, and the costs of engaging external law services).
2) All costs of engaging expert witnesses (including both those engaged directly by the agency, and those engaged by external law firms that the agency has engaged).
3) Transcription services.
4) Any other costs incurred by the agency (either directly, or indirectly through external law services) in responding to these matters.

I therefore ask that the OAIC investigates this matter in order to provide me with the full and complete information that I have requested from the NDIA.

Yours faithfully,
David Wright

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