UNCLASSIFIED

Good morning

1.              I refer to your email below which unfortunately in its
current form is not considered valid under section 15(2)(b) of the FOI Act
[Requests for access] as you have not provided such specific information
concerning the documents as is reasonably necessary to enable a
responsible officer of the agency to identify them. 

2.              However, our office is required to assist you in revising
the scope of your request to be for access to specific documents, should
this be what you require.  Accordingly, prior to the Department accepting
your request I would seek clarification as to the documents you wish to
obtain as there is some uncertainty as to the precise documents you seek. 
Note that I must be able to task the request out to the subject matter
areas with certainly that the documents you seek can be identified to
enable proper searches, hence the necessity for clarification. In
particular, I would seek clarification as to which Defence
Groups/Services or individuals were responsible for authoring the
documents and the title/contents of the documents.

Action required

 3.               Please provide the additional clarification by 16 May
2016.

Relevant Information about the FOI Act

 4.              The Guidelines issued by the Office of the Australian
Information Commissioner are available online at
[1]www.oaic.gov.au/publications/guidelines.html and the FOI Act is
available at [2]www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/C2014C00673.

Further correspondence

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address, [3][FOI #1912 email] as the primary
means of communicating with you.

Point of contact details

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email at [4][email address]. Please do not hesitate to contact me
should you have any questions in relation to this matter.

Regards

FOI Operations
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(02) 6266 2200
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UNCLASSIFIED

Good afternoon Mr Wolverton

Thank you for your response and the additional clarification. Unfortunately, the scope of your request is still quite broad. Staff within the Department of Defence receive numerous emails regarding various subjects such as IT issues, IT systems availability, Agency Agreement proposals, base support notifications like power outages, building maintenance, updates on the First Principles Review and other types of announcements.

You will need to specify a subject matter for your request so we can then look at the number of documents that could potentially be in scope.

Many thanks

FOI Operations
[email address]
(02) 6266 2200
http://www.defence.gov.au/foi/

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