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Dear JS

Please find attached the documents released by the Attorney-General's
Department in response to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests FOI20/178
and FOI20/179.

Kind regards

[Personal Information Redacted]

FOI Case Officer

Freedom of Information and Privacy Section | Strategy and Governance
Branch

Attorney-General’s Department

T: 02 6141 6666 | E: [1][AGD request email]

OFFICIAL

-----Original Message-----
From: JS [mailto:[FOI #7083 email]]
Sent: Monday, 15 February 2021 6:06 PM
To: FOI Requests <[AGD request email]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Foreign Influence Transparency
Scheme

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Dear Attorney-General's Department,

I seek access to the 39 documents referred to in the following extracts of
the AGD Disclosure Log .

FOI20/179           18/01/2021         Any document about the Foreign
Influence Transparency Scheme and its application to journalists, media
organisations, and their owners and media commentators, from 29 June 2018
until 8 October 2020.

Any document provided to the Attorney-General about the Foreign Influence
Transparency Scheme as it applies to journalists, media organisations and
their owners, and media commentators, from 29 June 2018 until 8 October
2020. This includes briefings and talking points.              36
documents released in part

FOI20/178           18/01/2021         Correspondence about the Foreign
Influence

Transparency Scheme (FITS), from 29 June 2018 until 8 October 2020 between
the Department and media organisations which are Chinese state owned or
broadcast/publish in the Chinese language, or target the Chinese community
in Australia.

The correspondence includes:

i. Correspondence encouraging recipients to consider whether the Foreign
Influence Transparency Scheme applies to their circumstances; ii.
Correspondence encouraging recipients to consider registering under the
Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme; iii. Discussion of potential
transparency notices and/or provisional transparency notices; and

iv. Correspondence about the circumstances under which recipients of that
correspondence may face penalties.                3 documents released in
part

Yours faithfully,

JS

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