Dear Andorra

The Department of Industry, Science and Resources (the department) has
received your Freedom of Information request of 14 November 2022
(attached) for documents held by the department for access to:

     Consistent with the Freedom of Information Act 1982, I request the
index of the Department's Senate Estimates issues brief that was prepared
for the Secretary for the Senate Estimates conducted between 28  October
and 11

     November 2022.

     I am not seeking drafts of the above documents.

This email is to acknowledge receipt of your request. Your reference is
72199. Currently a decision is due to you by 14 December 2022. However,
this timeline may be effected by the requirement to undertake consultation
with affected third parties or if the department determines you are liable
to pay a charge in relation to your request. You will be notified by the
department if charges are liable or if third party consultation is
required. Please be advised your request is currently still being assessed
and you will be notified if it does not meet the requirements of a valid
request under s15(2) of the FOI Act, or invited to refine the scope if it
is considered too voluminous to process.

Processing Your Request

To assist us to streamline the processing of your request we ask you to
consider the following:

1.       Requesting Personal Information:

Confirmation from you that you are not seeking ‘personal information’ (ie.
the names and contact details of any individuals, or any information that
could reasonably identify an individual) may enable a more timely and cost
effective processing of your request.

Therefore, could you please clarify if you are seeking access to personal
information in the documents relating to:

·         third parties; and

·         Commonwealth staff.

If you are not seeking access to any personal information, you can simply
reply to this email with ‘no personal information requested’.

If you are seeking access to specific types of personal information, could
you please specify.

If you specify you are seeking the personal information of Commonwealth
staff, please be advised the following is unlikely to be released:

·         the names, signatures and contact details of junior staff; That
is:

o   Commonwealth staff who are not in the Senior Executive Service (SES);
and

o   Ministerial staff below the level of Chief of Staff; and

·         the mobile phone numbers of SES officers.

2.       Publicly available documents:

Under section 4(1) of the FOI Act, the definition of a document does not
include ‘material maintained for reference purposes that is otherwise
publicly available’.

In order to process your request as efficiently as possible, publically
available documents will be excluded from your request unless you advise
otherwise.

We look forward to your response at your earliest convenience but no later
than 25 November 2022.

If you have any questions, please contact the FOI team.

Kind regards

FOI Officer

Information Law Team

Legal Branch | Chief Operating Officer Division

02 61028815 | [1][email address]

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Dear Andorra

Please find attached correspondence in relation to your FOI request of 14
November 2022.

Should you have any queries regarding this matter, please contact the FOI
team.

Regards

Sasha

Senior FOI Officer

Freedom of Information

Information Law Team

Legal Branch | Corporate & Digital

GPO Box 2013 Canberra ACT 2601 | [1][Department of Industry, Science, Energy & Resources request email]

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