Dear Mr Mansillo

 

Ref: 13/02

 

I refer to your request under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 e-mailed
to the Department of the House of Representatives on 8 April 2013. On
behalf of the Serjeant-at-Arms at the Department of the House of
Representatives, Robyn McClelland, I acknowledge receipt of your request.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Justin Baker

 

__________________________________________________

Justin Baker

Clerk’s Office

Department of the House of Representatives

 

phone: +61 2 6277 4333 | email: [email address]

 

 

Dear Mr Mansillo

 

Please find attached a response to your five FOI requests of 8 April 2013.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Justin Baker

 

__________________________________________________

Justin Baker

Clerk’s Office

Department of the House of Representatives

 

phone: +61 2 6277 4333 | email: [email address]

 

 

 

Dear Mr Mansillo

 

I refer to your email of 6 May 2013 requesting an internal review of the
Department’s access decision on Freedom of Information request Nos.
13/02–06 received by the Department on 7 May 2013.

 

The statutory period for processing your request is 30 days, which
commenced from the date the request was received.

 

Please contact me if you have any queries related to this matter.   

 

Justin Baker

 

__________________________________________________

Justin Baker

Clerk’s Office

Department of the House of Representatives

 

phone: +61 2 6277 4333 | email: [email address]

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----

From: Luke Mansillo [[1]mailto:[FOI #91 email]]

Sent: Monday, 6 May 2013 6:29 PM

To: FOI (Reps)

Subject: Internal review of Freedom of Information request - ABC
correspondence with Federal MPs for interviews on ABC News 24

 

     Dear Department of the House of Representatives,

    

     Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of

     Information reviews.

    

     I am writing to request an internal review of Department of the

     House of Representatives's handling of my FOI requests (13/02-06):

     1. All documents of correspondents between the ABC and the Leader

     of the Opposition and his Office regarding requests for interview

     on ABC News 24.

     2. All documents of correspondents between the ABC and the Leader

     of the Opposition and his Office regarding requests for interview

     on the ABC's Lateline programme.

     3. All documents of correspondents between the ABC and the Leader

     of the Opposition and his Office regarding requests for interview

     on the ABC's 7.30 programme.

     4. Copies of the Leader of the Opposition's diary and calendar used

     with House of Representatives resources between 16th August 2010

     and 9th April 2013. This is not limited to electronic diaries,

     schedules, and physical paper calendars.

     5. (i) All correspondence from the ABC to the Leader of the

     Opposition and his Office requesting his appearance on Q&A since 16

     August 2010; and

     (ii) all correspondence replying from his Office detailing requests

     made regarding his appearance on Q&A since 16 August 2010;and

     (iii) all correspondence between other Liberal and National Party

     Members of the House of Representatives and their staff regarding

     the Leader of the Opposition and the ABC's Q&A in any way, shape or

     form since 16 August 2010.

    

     I am bemused by the House of Representatives response as a prior

     FOI request at the ABC confirmed the existence of 26 documents

     discussing Tony Abbott's appearance on the Q&A programme between

     the Opposition Leader's Office & the ABC from the 16 August 2010 &

     2 February 2013.

    

     I refer to the ABC's response:

    
[2]https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/5...

    

     As there are documents to that effect, confirmed by the ABC, I

     would like an inquiry into the House of Representative's ability to

     discover such documents and secondly to recheck the existence of

     documents.

    

     As those documents exists, as they clearly do, it is important to

     establish why the Department of the House of Representatives has

     not provided them to me. The documents either do no exist within

     the reach of the Department or they do within access of FOIs. All

     APH email accounts of staffers are susceptible for FOI requests.

    

     It is highly unusual that the ABC would would first contact a

     non-APH email account to arrange an appearance with their staff

     when personal parliamentary staffs. Staffers are provided an aph

     account so that they can function in their jobs; their jobs include

     managing media. If there is a lack of electronic paper trail

     something must be asked: why are parliamentary staff not using

     their aph email accounts when communicating with government

     organsisations & media, namely the ABC.

    

     A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is

     available on the Internet at this address:

    
[3]http://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/ab...

    

     Yours faithfully,

    

     Luke Mansillo

    

     

     

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Dear Mr Mansillo

 

Please see the attached letter regarding your request for a review of the
decision in relation to your freedom of information request.

 

Yours sincerely

_______________________________

David Elder

Deputy Clerk

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

RG39 Parliament House, Canberra ACT 2600
( 02 6277 4111 | 7 02 6277 2006
:  [1][email address]

 

 

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