From:
Alan ASHMORE
To:
INFORMATION.ACCESS
Subject:
Internal review of Freedom of Information request - Gold card costs
Date:
Tuesday, 15 November 2022 11:12:58 PM
Dear Department of Veterans' Affairs,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Department of Veterans' Affairs's handling of my FOI request
'Gold card costs'.
I note your refusal to issue, "the total additional cost to the Government of veterans and
war widows in receipt of a Gold Card) under section 24A(1)(b)(ii) of the FOI Act, on the basis
that the documents do not exist."
May I respectively challenge the desision that the documents do not exist. I say this as immediately following
the conclusion of the Secretary's Round Table, (SRT), in August 2019 one of DVA's First Assistant Secretary's
approached Mick Quinn and I about this matter that we had earlier raised in the meeting.
The First Assistant Secretary showed us a one page document that detailed the exact information I requested
and you claim does not exist. This First Assistant Secretary then arranged to meet with him when next in
Melbourne but we never heard from him again.
Should you be unable or unwilling to release the requested document you will leave me with no alternative but
to write to the Minister.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address:
https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/gold_card_costs
Yours faithfully,
Alan ASHMORE
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