Agreements on the Confucius Institute
Dear University of Queensland,
Under the Freedom of Information Act 1982, I request the following:
- Agreements with the Office of Chinese Language Council International (Hanban) and the Tianjin University on the establishment / continuation of the Confucius Institue at the University of Queensland
Yours faithfully,
Dirk Eisman
[1]The University of Queensland
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Right to Information request - Agreements on the Confucius Institute
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Dear University of Queensland,
You did not respond to my Right to Information request "Agreements on the Confucius Institute" (Question Reference # 200129-000138) dated 29 January 2020 within about a month, as defined by law.
Please inform me immediately on the status of my request.
Yours sincerely,
Dirk Eisman
Dear Mr Eisman,
Thank you for your email, and I apologise for the delay in responding to
your RTI enquiry.
I advise that the Head Agreement between The University of Queensland and
the Confucius Institute is publicly-available from our [1]UQ Responds
webpage. Regarding the remainder of the documents to which you are
seeking access, section 24 of Queensland’s Right to Information Act 2009
requires that an application must:
· be in the approved form and be accompanied by the application
fee;
· give sufficient information concerning the documents to which
access is sought;
· state an address to which notices under this Act may be sent to
the applicant; and
· state whether access to the document is sought for the benefit
of, or use of the document by, the applicant or another entity.
The current application form for the Queensland jurisdiction can be found
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the link to “RTI application form”). In order for your application to be
compliant, you would need to complete and return the form, and make
payment of the $50.80 application fee via the University’s [3]RTI
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If you wish to continue with your application, please correct the
deficiencies as noted above, and return your application to the University
via [4][UQ request email] within 15 business days. If you require additional
time to make your application compliant, please do not hesitate to let me
know.
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Justin Rofe
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Dear Mr Eisman,
APPLICATION FOR ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS
I refer to your application received by the University on 29 January 2020,
in which you sought access to documents under the Right to Information Act
2009 (RTI Act).
DECISION
In my correspondence to you dated 13 March 2020, I advised you that your
application was non-compliant, and provided further advice on how to make
your application compliant. I have not received a response to the
aforementioned correspondence, and the deficiencies in your application
have not been corrected.
Pursuant to section 33(6) of the RTI Act, I have therefore decided on this
date to refuse to deal with your application. Please note that this does
not preclude you from submitting a new application at any stage.
INTERNAL REVIEW
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Justin Rofe
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