Contents of November 2022 ComBrief Senate Estimates

Julie made this Freedom of Information request to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner

Response to this request is long overdue. By law, under all circumstances, Office of the Australian Information Commissioner should have responded by now (details). You can complain by requesting an internal review.

Julie
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Dear Office of the Australian Information Commissioner,

The OAIC has appeared (via videolink or in person) before the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislative Committee (Senate Estimates) on 7 November 2022 (Angelene Falk, Leo Hardiman, Elizabeth Hampton).

As part of the appearance of the above named OAIC officials, to enable these above named OAIC officials to address any issues or questions Committee members might raise, the OAIC prepares a 'Commissioner briefing book' or 'briefing folder' for each official appearing, that typically consists of a 'corporate folder', a 'privacy folder', an 'FOI folder', and other folders that contain 'Commissioner Briefs', 'Hot Topic Briefs', and other documents.

Excluding drafts and duplicates, I seek copy of the contents of the ComBrief book/s, excluding the index, limited to the amount of the ComBrief documents that the OAIC can produce before a valid practical refusal could be made. In determining the order of documents in scope, the OAIC should process in order of most likely to be be released in full to most likely to be refused in full.

Personal information of private individuals (not Commonwealth officials) is irrelevant.

Ciao

Julie

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Our Reference: FOIREQ22/00380

Dear Julie,

Freedom of Information request

I refer to your request for access to documents made under the Freedom of
Information Act 1982 (Cth) (the FOI Act) and received by the Office of the
Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) on 8 November 2022.

Scope of your request

In your email you seek access to the following:

Dear Office of the Australian Information Commissioner,

 

The OAIC has appeared (via videolink or in person) before the Legal and
Constitutional Affairs Legislative Committee (Senate Estimates) on 7
November 2022 (Angelene Falk, Leo Hardiman, Elizabeth Hampton).

 

As part of the appearance of the above named OAIC officials, to enable
these above named OAIC officials to address any issues or questions
Committee members might raise, the OAIC prepares a 'Commissioner briefing
book' or 'briefing folder' for each official appearing, that typically
consists of a 'corporate folder', a 'privacy folder', an 'FOI folder', and
other folders that contain 'Commissioner Briefs', 'Hot Topic Briefs', and
other documents.

 

Excluding drafts and duplicates, I seek copy of the contents of the
ComBrief book/s, excluding the index, limited to the amount of the
ComBrief documents that the OAIC can produce before a valid practical
refusal could be made. In determining the order of documents in scope, the
OAIC should process in order of most likely to be be released in full to
most likely to be refused in full.

 

Personal information of private individuals (not Commonwealth officials)
is irrelevant.

In order to process your request as efficiently as possible, I will
exclude duplicates and early parts of email streams that are captured in
later email streams from the scope of this request, unless you advise me
otherwise.

We will not identify you as the FOI applicant during and consultation
process. However, documents that are within the scope of your request that
we may need to consult third parties about may contain your personal
information.

Timeframes for dealing with your request

Section 15 of the FOI Act requires this office to process your request no
later than 30 days after the day we receive it. However, section 15(6) of
the FOI Act allows us a further 30 days in situations where we need to
consult with third parties about certain information, such as business
documents or documents affecting their personal privacy.

As we received your request on 8 November 2022, we must process your
request by 8 December 2022.

Disclosure Log

Documents released under the FOI Act may be published online on our
disclosure log, unless they contain personal or business information that
would be unreasonable to publish.

 If you would like to discuss your FOI request, please contact me on my
contact details set out below.

Kind Regards,

 

[1]O A I C logo   Alessia Mercuri | Lawyer

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Office of the Australian
Information Commissioner

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Notice:

The information contained in this email message and any attached files may
be confidential information, and may also be the subject of legal
professional privilege. If you are not the intended recipient any use,
disclosure or copying of this email is unauthorised. If you received this
email in error, please notify the sender by contacting the department's
switchboard on 1300 488 064 during business hours (8:30am - 5pm Canberra
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attachments.

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Dear Julie

 

Please see attached correspondence in relation to the above FOI request.

Kind regards

 

Molly

 

[1]O A I C logo   Molly Cooke | Lawyer

Legal Services

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Dear Julie,

 

We refer to the above FOI request and our letter to you dated 24 November
2022 providing notice under section 24AB of the FOI Act.

 

In this letter, we provided notice of our intention to refuse access to
the documents you requested as a practical refusal due to the substantial
number of documents which may fall within the scope of the request, unless
you revised the request by Thursday 8 December 2022.

 

As we did not receive a response from you by the deadline your request
has been taken to be withdrawn.

 

Kind regards,
Janani

 

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Paralegal

Legal Services

Office of the Australian
Information Commissioner

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Please note the OAIC will be closed from Saturday 24 December 2022 and
will reopen on Tuesday 3 January 2023.

 

 

 

 

 

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