Correspondence with Former Prime Ministers
Dear Prime Minister,
Consistent with the Freedom of Information Act 1982, I request all correspondence between the Prime Minister of Australia and any former Prime Minister of Australia since May 23rd 2022.
I am not seeking drafts of the above documents.
Please let me know if you require any clarification in relation to this request.
Regards,
Andorra
OFFICIAL
Reference: PM/22/023
Dear Ms Loom
The purpose of this email is to acknowledge the request you made to the
Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) for access under the Freedom of Information
Act 1982 (the Act).
The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C) provides
administrative support to the PMO for the processing of their Freedom of
Information (FOI) requests. We have forwarded your request to the PMO for
consideration. When corresponding with PM&C about this request please
include the reference number of PM/2022/023.
FOI Timeframes
Your request was received on 28 November 2022. The 30 day statutory period
for processing your request commenced from the day after it was received,
you should therefore expect a decision by 28 December 2022.
The processing period of 30 days may be extended in certain circumstances
and we will write to you separately regarding any extension of time.
Yours sincerely
Leisha
Coordinator | FOI Section[]
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
p. (02) 6271 5849
Ngunnawal Country | One National Circuit Barton ACT 2600 | PO Box
6500 CANBERRA ACT 2600
e. [1][email address] w. [2]pmc.gov.au
[3]cid:image003.jpg@01D78E24.FF2DAFB0 The
Department
acknowledges
and pays
respect to
the past,
present and
emerging
Elders and
Traditional
Custodians
of Country,
and the
continuation
of cultural,
spiritual
and
educational
practices of
Aboriginal
and Torres
Strait
Islander
peoples.
______________________________________________________________________
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OFFICIAL
Reference: PM/22/023
Dear Andorra Loom,
I refer to your FOI request of 28 November 2022, made to the Prime
Minister’s Office under the Freedom of Information Act 1982, in which you
sought access to:
All correspondence between the Prime Minister of Australia and any former
Prime Minister of Australia since May 23rd 2022.
The current due date for a decision on this request is 28 December 2022.
We write to seek your agreement to a 30 day extension of time under
section 15AA of the FOI Act, as regrettably, due to the holiday shut down
period, the Office is not in a position to finalise the decision by the
current due date. If you agree to the extension of time, the decision will
then be due on 27 January 2023.
If you agree to this request, we would be grateful if you could confirm
via reply email by Friday 16 December 2022.
Yours sincerely,
Alicia
Adviser | FOI Section[]
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
p. (02) 6271 5849
Ngunnawal Country | One National Circuit Barton ACT 2600 | PO Box
6500 CANBERRA ACT 2600
e. [1][email address] w. [2]pmc.gov.au
[3]cid:image003.jpg@01D78E24.FF2DAFB0 The
Department
acknowledges
and pays
respect to
the past,
present and
emerging
Elders and
Traditional
Custodians
of Country,
and the
continuation
of cultural,
spiritual
and
educational
practices of
Aboriginal
and Torres
Strait
Islander
peoples.
______________________________________________________________________
IMPORTANT: This message, and any attachments to it, contains information
that is confidential and may also be the subject of legal professional or
other privilege. If you are not the intended recipient of this message,
you
must not review, copy, disseminate or disclose its contents to any other
party or take action in reliance of any material contained within it. If
you
have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately
by
return email informing them of the mistake and delete all copies of the
message from your computer system.
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OFFICIAL
Reference: PM/22/023
Dear Andorra
Please find attached a letter from the Office of the Prime Minister
concerning your request made under the Freedom of Information Act 1982.
Your sincerely
Janelle
Adviser | FOI Section[]
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
p. (02) 6271 5849
Ngunnawal Country, One National Circuit Barton ACT 2600 | PO Box
6500 CANBERRA ACT 2600
e. [1][email address] w. [2]pmc.gov.au
[3]cid:image001.jpg@01D78E24.FF2DAFB0[4]cid:image002.jpg@01D78E24.FF2DAFB0
[5]cid:image003.jpg@01D78E24.FF2DAFB0 The
Department
acknowledges
and pays
respect to
the past,
present and
emerging
Elders and
Traditional
Custodians
of Country,
and the
continuation
of cultural,
spiritual
and
educational
practices of
Aboriginal
and Torres
Strait
Islander
peoples.
Dear Janelle,
Thank you for your email and for the letter from the decision maker, Simona Gory, on behalf of the Prime Minister of Australia.
In response to this letter, I object to the reasons outlined in the letter from the decision maker in relation to the grounds for a practical refusal.
The argument made by the decision maker that the request is broad is not correct.
The timeframe is between 23rd May 2022 and the date of my request, 28th November 2022.
The documents are correspondence between the current Prime Minister, and any former Prime Minister of Australia in this period, which identifies a total of eight people.
The request does not specify a subject matter, which should reduce time in identifying the documents, not increase it.
However, to assist the decision maker in processing this request I will alter the application to the following terms:
'I request all correspondence by letter or email between the Prime Minister of Australia and any former Prime Minister of Australia since May 23rd 2022 and August 1st 2022.'
Please advise when this revised application has been processed.
Regards,
Andorra
OFFICIAL
Reference: PM/23/019
Dear Ms Loom
Thank you for your email of 19 January 2023. I respond on behalf of the
Prime Minister’s Office (the Office).
You have written in relation to a practical refusal consultation notice
issued on 23 December 2022 (reference PM/22/023). As set out in the
notice, your response was required to be received by 6 January 2023, and
after this time your request was considered to be withdrawn by operation
of the FOI Act.
The Office is open to considering your email of 19 January 2023 as a new
FOI request, but it is noted that you have not sufficiently addressed the
issues raised in the consultation notice of 23 December 2022. As explained
in that letter, subject to your possible further clarification, the
delegate considers the work associated in processing your request would
continue to unreasonably divert Office resources from its other
operations.
If you wish to clarify your request to specify which former Prime
Minister(s) you intend to capture as part of your request and/or specify
specific subject matters, please advise by 9 February 2022.
Yours sincerely
Adviser | FOI Section[]
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
p. (02) 6271 5849
Ngunnawal Country | One National Circuit Barton ACT 2600 | PO Box
6500 CANBERRA ACT 2600
e. [1][email address] w. [2]pmc.gov.au
[3]cid:image001.jpg@01D89219.0A97D530 The
Department
acknowledges
and pays
respect to
the past,
present and
emerging
Elders and
Traditional
Custodians
of Country,
and the
continuation
of cultural,
spiritual
and
educational
practices of
Aboriginal
and Torres
Strait
Islander
peoples.
______________________________________________________________________
IMPORTANT: This message, and any attachments to it, contains information
that is confidential and may also be the subject of legal professional or
other privilege. If you are not the intended recipient of this message,
you
must not review, copy, disseminate or disclose its contents to any other
party or take action in reliance of any material contained within it. If
you
have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately
by
return email informing them of the mistake and delete all copies of the
message from your computer system.
______________________________________________________________________
References
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2. https://www.pmc.gov.au/