2016/17 Additional Estimates Topics
Dear Attorney-General's Department,
If possible, please treat this as an administrative or informal request.
Otherwise, please consider this a request under the FOI Act.
Can you please provide the topics list for briefs created in preparation for hearings of Senate 2016-17 Additional Estimates.
I ask that all fees in relation to this request be waived because the release of the documents is in the public interest. The documents help identify the most important policy areas within the department's responsibilities.
Yours faithfully,
Jackson Gothe-Snape
UNCLASSIFIED
FOI17/060; 17/3969
7 April 2017
Mr Jackson Gothe-Snape
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Dear Mr Gothe-Snape
Freedom of Information Request FOI17/060
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Dear Mr Gothe-Snape
Please find attached the signed decision letter and document released in
respect of your Freedom of Information request FOI 17/060.
Kind regards
FOI Officer
Freedom of Information and Privacy Section | Strategy and Delivery
Division
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