Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2016 05:49:36 +0000
Subject: TRIM: Re: Notice of Charge [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
From: Dan Monceaux <xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx>
To: Freedom of Information <
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Dear Freedom of Information Officers,
I thank you for providing me with a Notice of Charge dated 5 October 2016.
In response I would like to request that the costs be reconsidered.
In the supplied Notice of Charge I see a line item for $16.40 for "photocopying and postage". I wish to receive any released documents as scans delivered electronically, so this cost may not be applicable. If it is applicable, I would appreciate an explanation of why these works are necessary.
Furthermore, I wish to request an overall fee reduction owing to my limited financial means as a self-funded researcher and the public interest nature of this request.
I have reason to believe that the work of the Uranium Council has immediate relevance to decision-making processes which are underway in South Australia and federally, in the wake of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission (2015-2016). The Commission concluded in May 2016, and since that time the South Australian Department of the Premier and Cabinet has been considering advancing the recommendations made by the Commission, many of which are likely to benefit the uranium mining sector.
During the Royal Commission, I was a member of the press gang attending to it, representing myself as a freelance documentary filmmaker and public interest researcher. My work following this topic has been unwaged, and I have undertaken voluminous research on this topic the costs of which I have borne personally.
Any consideration of an overall fee reduction would greatly assist me in continuing my work in public interest research at this early stage of my career and would also benefit the public of South Australia and surrounding public discourse.
Yours sincerely,
Dan Monceaux
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Dear Mr Monceaux
We refer to your FOI request received on 1 September 2016.
Please find the attached correspondence in response to it.
Kind regards,
FOI team
Legal, Audit and Assurance Branch| Corporate Network
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