Dear Mr Cooper-Stout

I refer to your correspondence (attached) in which you requested access to
the following documents under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI
Act):

"[1] Any minute, briefing paper or similar prepared for the Minister

     for Tertiary Education relating to the imposition of efficiency

     dividends on tertiary education providers;

     [2] Any minute, briefing paper or similar prepared for the Minister

     for Tertiary Education relating to changing the student start-up

     scholarships to require them to be repaid.

     [3] Any and all correspondence to the Minister and/or his advisors

     relating to points 1 and 2."

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Regards

Jenny Komsic

FOI Team

Legal Branch | Corporate Division

Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and
Tertiary Education

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Dear Mr Cooper-Stout

Please find attached correspondence in response to your Freedom of Information request of 13 April 2013.

Kind regards,
FOI Team
Legal Branch | Corporate Division
Department of Industry, Innovation,
Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education
GPO Box 9839, Canberra ACT 2601

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Cooper-Stout [mailto:[FOI #92 email]]
Sent: Saturday, 13 April 2013 4:51 PM
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Efficiency dividends and other tertiary education policy changes

Dear Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and
Tertiary Education,

I hereby request under the Freedom of Information Act, the
following documents:

[1] Any minute, briefing paper or similar prepared for the Minister
for Tertiary Education relating to the imposition of efficiency
dividends on tertiary education providers;

[2] Any minute, briefing paper or similar prepared for the Minister
for Tertiary Education relating to changing the student start-up
scholarships to require them to be repaid.

[3] Any and all correspondence to the Minister and/or his advisors
relating to points 1 and 2.

Yours faithfully,

Jeremy Cooper-Stout

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Dear Mr Cooper-Stout

I refer to your FOI request of 13 April 2013 in which you requested access
to the following documents:

"[1] Any minute, briefing paper or similar prepared for the Minister

     for Tertiary Education relating to the imposition of efficiency

     dividends on tertiary education providers;

     [2] Any minute, briefing paper or similar prepared for the Minister

     for Tertiary Education relating to changing the student start-up

     scholarships to require them to be repaid.

     [3] Any and all correspondence to the Minister and/or his advisors

     relating to points 1 and 2."

On 13 May 2013, a notice of intention to refuse on practical refusal
grounds was sent to you. You were provided an opportunity to withdraw your
request or revise the scope of your request so that practical refusal
grounds would no longer exist. The notice required a response from you
within 14 days otherwise your request would be deemed withdrawn.

The 14 day notification period expired on 27 May 2013 and the department
did not receive any correspondence from you.  Therefore we now consider
your request withdrawn.

Regards,

FOI Team

Legal Branch | Corporate Division

Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and
Tertiary Education

GPO Box 9839, Canberra ACT 2601

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the addressee and may contain confidential or legally privileged
information. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that
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you have received this transmission in error, please notify me immediately
by telephone and delete copies of this transmission together with any
attachments.

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