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agencies, other state government agencies, or private organisations.

Accordingly:

1.             if you are seeking to access documents of a particular
Commonwealth agency, you will need to make your request directly to the
relevant agency. For example, if you are requesting a copy of your visa
records, please make an FOI request and send it to the Department of Home
Affairs.

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government agency, as each Australian state and territory also have
separate FOI legislation that governs information held by state government
agencies, please contact the relevant agency as to how to make an
application to access the documents. For example, if you are seeking
access to police report from NSW Police Force, it is governed by the
Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 (NSW) (GIPA Act), and you
will need to contact NSW police to find out how to make a GIPA application
for the police report.

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organization, which the FOI Act does not apply to, please contact the
organization directly to find out how to access the documents you are
seeking. For example, if you are seeking to access to hospital records or
your medical centre records, please contact these organisations directly. 

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Our reference: FOIREQ23/00086

Dear Watson Norwood

Freedom of Information request

I refer to your request for access to documents made under the Freedom of
Information Act 1982 (Cth) (FOI Act).

Your FOI request was received by the Office of the Australian Information
Commissioner (OAIC) on 7 May 2023. This means that a decision on your FOI
request is currently due on 6 June 2023.

Scope of your request

Your FOI request was made in the following terms:

Dear Office of the Australian Information Commissioner,

I am writing to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act for a
complete copy of the departments' Freedom of Information (FOI) logs for
the period 2013-2023, including any secondary departments controlled by
the agency.

I request that this is provided as a document and not a simple redirect to
the agency website as I am of the view that your online disclosure logs do
not actively reflect your FOI requests that you have received in this
period.

I would appreciate it if you could provide me with this information in an
electronic format, such as a PDF or spreadsheet, if possible.

If there are any fees associated with fulfilling this request, please let
me know in advance so that I can consider my options.

Thank you for your assistance in this matter.

Sincerely,

Watson Norwood

Consultation on scope of request

I note in your request you mention “Freedom of Information (FOI) Logs”.
Accordingly, I assume that you may be seeking access to a report
identifying:

 1. A complete list of FOI requests or decisions received by the OAIC;
and/or
 2. what information are you seeking access to within the ‘FOI log’

I would appreciate a response to my questions above by close of business
Friday, 26 May 2023.

If I do not hear from you by this date I will assume that you do not
object to this interpretation of the scope of your FOI request and will
continue to process the request according to this interpretation.

Processing your request

In order to process your request as efficiently as possible, I will
exclude duplicates and early parts of email streams that are captured in
later email streams from the scope of this request.

I will not identify you as the FOI applicant during any consultation
process. However, documents that are within the scope of your request that
the OAIC may need to consult third parties about may contain your personal
information.

Timeframes for dealing with your request

Section 15 of the FOI Act requires the OAIC to process your request no
later than 30 days after the day we receive it. However, section 15(6) of
the FOI Act allows us a further 30 days in situations where we need to
consult with third parties about certain information, such as business
documents or documents affecting their personal privacy.

The current decision due date for your request is 6 June 2023. We will
advise you if this timeframe is otherwise extended.

Disclosure Log

Documents released under the FOI Act may be published online on our
disclosure log, unless they contain personal or business information that
would be unreasonable to publish.

If you would like to discuss your FOI request, please contact me on my
contact details set out below.

Kind regards

Jessica

[1][IMG]   Jessica Summerhill

A/g Senior Lawyer

GPO Box 5288 Sydney NSW 2001

Office of the Australian Information Commissioner

P +61 2 9942 4028  E [2][OAIC request email]

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cultures and Elders past and present.

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Our reference: FOIREQ23/00086

Dear Watson Norwood,

Please see attached decision and documents in relation to your request for
information.

Kind regards

Jessica

[1][IMG]   Jessica Summerhill

A/g Senior Lawyer

GPO Box 5288 Sydney NSW 2001

Office of the Australian Information Commissioner

P +61 2 9942 4028  E [2][OAIC request email]

The OAIC acknowledges Traditional Custodians of Country across Australia
and their continuing connection to land,

waters and communities. We pay our respect to First Nations people,
cultures and Elders past and present.

[3]Subscribe to Information Matters

Notice:

The information contained in this email message and any attached files may
be confidential information, and may also be the subject of legal
professional privilege. If you are not the intended recipient any use,
disclosure or copying of this email is unauthorised. If you received this
email in error, please notify the sender by contacting the department's
switchboard on 1300 488 064 during business hours (8:30am - 5pm Canberra
time) and delete all copies of this transmission together with any
attachments.

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