Dear Sir or Madam

Thank you for your email to the Commonwealth Department of Health (department).

Upon undertaking a thorough search of our files, we are unable to locate the relevant FOI request you have submitted. Can you please confirm if your original request was sent to the address [email address]. Grateful if you can forward through your original request for our consideration.

Kind regards

FOI Officer

Freedom of Information Section

Legal Advice & Legislation Branch
Legal & Assurance Division | Corporate Operations Group
Australian Government Department of Health
T: 02 6289 1666  | E: [email address] 
GPO Box 9848, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia

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From: Concerned Citizen <[FOI #8090 email]>
Sent: Tuesday, 7 December 2021 8:11 PM
To: FOI <[email address]>
Subject: Re: Freedom of Information request - Documents relating to the meeting between the Minister for Health and Apple’s Global Health Lead on the 21st of May 2020

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Dear Minister for Health,

I have not received a response to the request for information I sent on the 12th of November.

Could you please confirm that you received my request and indicate when I can expect to receive response?

Yours faithfully,

Concerned Citizen

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Dear Sir or Madam

I refer to your email below and your email of 7 December 2021 advising
that you had sent a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to the
Commonwealth Department of Health (department) on 12 November 2021.

I am writing to advise you that your request has never been received in
the department’s specified FOI email address (refer to subsection 15(2A)
of the FOI Act), and the department’s FOI Unit has no record of the email.

Accordingly, the department will actively process your request (set out
below) as it was received by the FOI team on 8 December
2021:              

Please provide documents relating to the meeting between the Minister for
Health and Apple’s Global Health Lead on the 21st of May 2020.

                Please provide:

                - any emails sent from the office of the Minister to Apple
or from Apple to the office of the Minister to arrange the meeting or
after the meeting,

                - any attachments,

                - any agenda,

                - any notes taken during the meeting,

                - any documents referenced in the meeting.

The statutory timeframe for processing your request is 30 calendar days
within which a decision on access to the requested documents is to be
notified.

The department may impose a charge for the work involved in providing
access to the documents.  If this request attracts a charge you will be
notified in writing.

Unless you advise otherwise, draft and duplicate documents and
Commonwealth employee names and contact details below Senior Executive
Service level and mobile telephone numbers of all staff will be excluded
from the scope of your request under s22(1)(a)(ii) of the FOI Act.

You can contact the FOI Unit via email at [email address], should you
have any questions.

Kind regards

FOI Officer

Freedom of Information Section

Legal Advice & Legislation Branch
Legal & Assurance Division | Corporate Operations Group

Australian Government Department of Health

T: 02 6289 1666  | E: [1][email address] 

GPO Box 9848, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia

The Department of Health acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of
Australia and their continued connection to land, sea and community. We
pay our respects to all Elders past and present. 

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legally privileged information. Please consult with Legal Division before
disclosing any part of this email, or attachment, outside of the
Department. If you receive this email in error, please delete it and
contact the sender immediately.

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

From: Concerned Citizen <[FOI #8090 email]>

Sent: Wednesday, 8 December 2021 6:23 PM

To: FOI <[email address]>

Subject: RE: Freedom of Information request - Documents relating to the
meeting between the Minister for Health and Apple’s Global Health Lead
on the 21st of May 2020 [SEC=OFFICIAL]

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Dear FOI,

My request was:

Dear Minister for Health,

Please provide documents relating to the meeting between the Minister for
Health and Apple’s Global Health Lead on the 21st of May 2020.

Please provide:

- any emails sent from the office of the Minister to Apple or from Apple
to the office of the Minister to arrange the meeting or after the meeting,

- any attachments,

- any agenda,

- any notes taken during the meeting,

- any documents referenced in the meeting.

You can also see a full history of this request at:

https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/d...

Yours faithfully,

Concerned Citizen

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

Dear Sir or Madam

Thank you for your email to the Commonwealth Department of Health
(department).

Upon undertaking a thorough search of our files, we are unable to locate
the relevant FOI request you have submitted. Can you please confirm if
your original request was sent to the address [email address]. Grateful if
you can forward through your original request for our consideration.

Kind regards

FOI Officer

Freedom of Information Section

Legal Advice & Legislation Branch

Legal & Assurance Division | Corporate Operations Group Australian
Government Department of Health

T: 02 6289 1666  | E: [email address]

GPO Box 9848, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia

The Department of Health acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of
Australia and their continued connection to land, sea and community. We
pay our respects to all Elders past and present. 

Please note that this email and attachments may contain confidential or
legally privileged information. Please consult with Legal Division before
disclosing any part of this email, or attachment, outside of the
Department. If you receive this email in error, please delete it and
contact the sender immediately.

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Dear Sir or Madam

Thank you for your email and for clarifying your request.

We note that this request is to the Minister of Health and will therefore liaise with the relevant contacts in the Minister's Office. Usually the department assists the Minister's Office in processing FOI requests that are directed to the Minister himself. Therefore, if you have any questions in regards to this request, please email [email address].

Kind regards

FOI Officer

Freedom of Information Section

Legal Advice & Legislation Branch
Legal & Assurance Division | Corporate Operations Group
Australian Government Department of Health
T: 02 6289 1666  | E: [email address] 
GPO Box 9848, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia

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-----Original Message-----
From: Concerned Citizen <[FOI #8090 email]>
Sent: Thursday, 9 December 2021 5:03 PM
To: FOI <[email address]>
Subject: Re: Freedom of Information Request 3451 - Notification of Receipt [SEC=OFFICIAL]

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Dear FOI,

And just to clarify, this request is to The Minster of Health. I have already received documents in the possession of the Department in response to an earlier request.

Yours sincerely,

Concerned Citizen

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

Dear Sir or Madam

I refer to your email below and your email of 7 December 2021 advising that you had sent a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to the Commonwealth Department of Health (department) on 12 November 2021.

I am writing to advise you that your request has never been received in the department’s specified FOI email address (refer to subsection 15(2A) of the FOI Act), and the department’s FOI Unit has no record of the email.

Accordingly, the department will actively process your request (set out below) as it was received by the FOI team on 8 December
2021:              

Please provide documents relating to the meeting between the Minister for Health and Apple’s Global Health Lead on the 21st of May 2020.

                Please provide:

                - any emails sent from the office of the Minister to Apple or from Apple to the office of the Minister to arrange the meeting or after the meeting,

                - any attachments,

                - any agenda,

                - any notes taken during the meeting,

                - any documents referenced in the meeting.

The statutory timeframe for processing your request is 30 calendar days within which a decision on access to the requested documents is to be notified.

The department may impose a charge for the work involved in providing access to the documents.  If this request attracts a charge you will be notified in writing.

Unless you advise otherwise, draft and duplicate documents and Commonwealth employee names and contact details below Senior Executive Service level and mobile telephone numbers of all staff will be excluded from the scope of your request under s22(1)(a)(ii) of the FOI Act.

You can contact the FOI Unit via email at [email address], should you have any questions.

Kind regards

FOI Officer

Freedom of Information Section

Legal Advice & Legislation Branch
Legal & Assurance Division | Corporate Operations Group

Australian Government Department of Health

T: 02 6289 1666  | E: [1][email address] 

GPO Box 9848, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia

The Department of Health acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Australia and their continued connection to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to all Elders past and present. 

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Dear Sir or Madam

I refer to your Freedom of Information Request to the Minister for Health
seeking access to the following under the Freedom of Information Act 1982
(Cth) (FOI Act):

Please provide documents relating to the meeting  between the Minister for
Health and Apple’s Global Health Lead on the 21^st of May 2020.

Please provide:

-       any emails sent from the office of the Minister to Apple or from
Apple to the office of the Minister to arrange the meeting or after the
meeting,

-       any attachments, any agenda,

-       any notes taken during the meeting,

-       any documents references in the meeting

Notice of Third Party Consultation

Documents have been identified in scope to which a third party is
involved.

The decision maker, an officer authorised under section 23(1) of the FOI
Act to make decisions in relation to Freedom of Information requests, has
determined that the requirement of section 27 and 27A of FOI Act
(Consultation – Business and Personal information), makes it appropriate
to extend the timeframe for dealing with your request.

Pursuant to section 15(6) of the FOI Act, this allows an additional 30
days to process your request.

Accordingly, we will endeavour to provide you with a decision on or before
Monday, 7 February 2022.

Relevant Provisions

The FOI Act, including the provisions referred to in this email, can be
accessed from the Federal Register of Legislation website:
[1]https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C...

If you require clarification of any of the matters discussed in this email
you should contact the Department of Health’s FOI Unit at (02) 6289 1666
or by email at [2][email address]. Please note that the department,
including the FOI Unit, will be closed from 2pm on Friday 24 December 2021
and will not re-open until Tuesday, 4 January 2022.

We thank you for your ongoing patience and cooperation as we continue to
actively process your request.

Kind regards

FOI Officer

FOI Unit – FOI and Legislation Section

Legal & Assurance Division |  Corporate Operations Group

Legal Advice & Legislation Branch

Australian Government Department of Health

E: [3][email address] 

GPO Box 9848, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia

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Dear Sir or Madam

Please find attached correspondence in relation to your Freedom of
Information request to the Department of Health.

Kind regards

FOI Officer

Freedom of Information Section

Legal Advice & Legislation Branch
Legal & Assurance Division | Corporate Operations Group

Australian Government Department of Health

T: 02 6289 1666  | E: [1][email address] 

GPO Box 9848, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia

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Australia and their continued connection to land, sea and community. We
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Dear Sir or Madam

Thank you for your enquiry below.

The material that was removed in Document 4 were comments in the margin of
the document that contained deliberations which are exempt under section
47C of the FOI Act for the reasons outlined in the Notice of Decision.

Please see attached where we have updated Document 4 accordingly.

We hope this response has been of assistance.

Kind regards

FOI Officer

Freedom of Information Section

Legal Advice & Legislation Branch
Legal & Assurance Division | Corporate Operations Group

Australian Government Department of Health

T: 02 6289 1666  | E: [1][email address] 

GPO Box 9848, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia

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Australia and their continued connection to land, sea and community. We
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-----Original Message-----
From: Concerned Citizen <[FOI #8090 email]>
Sent: Friday, 4 February 2022 12:18 PM
To: FOI <[email address]>
Subject: Re: Freedom of Information Request 3451 - Notice of Decision
[SEC=OFFICIAL]

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Dear FOI,

Please treat this as an administrative request for clarification.

In the letter of decision you have indicated that Document 4 has had some
content removed under section 47C of the FOI Act.

It is not clear the extent of the content that has been removed. There is
only one reference to 's47C' in Document 4 (to the right of the first
paragraph on page 2). But there are no defined regions to mark the area of
the document that contained the content that was removed. Could you please
clarify the extent of the content that was removed under this exemption?

Did you intend to remove the entirety of page 2?

Were there notes in the margin that were removed?

It would be helpful if you could update the documents to include markings
showing the actual extent of the information that was removed.

Thanks,

Concerned Citizen

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

Dear Sir or Madam

Please find attached correspondence in relation to your Freedom of 
Information request to the Department of Health.

Kind regards

FOI Officer

Freedom of Information Section

Legal Advice & Legislation Branch

Legal & Assurance Division | Corporate Operations Group

Australian Government Department of Health

T: 02 6289 1666  | E: [1][email address] 

GPO Box 9848, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia

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Australia and their continued connection to land, sea and community. We
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