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Commissioner (OAIC). Please note the OAIC does not hold documents of other
Commonwealth agencies or State or Territory Departments. 

 

FOI requests to the OAIC

 

Important: This email address is only for making requests to obtain access
to a document held by the OAIC, pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act
1982 (Cth) (FOI Act). We will only action and respond to emails making FOI
requests to the OAIC.

For information on how to make an FOI request to the OAIC, and to ensure
that your request complies with the requirements of the FOI Act, please
refer to the FOI page on the OAIC website at:
[1]https://www.oaic.gov.au/about-us/access-...

 

Once your request has been assessed by the OAIC, and registered on our
system, a separate acknowledgement email will be sent to you with an FOI
reference number.

 

The OAIC does not hold documents of other Commonwealth government
agencies, other state government agencies, or private organisations. The
OAIC does not hold Police Records or State Government Records.  Further
information on how to access these types of records is here [2]Freedom of
information requests to the OAIC

 

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.  Further details and information is below.

2)       if you are seeking to access documents of a state or local
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.

3)       if you are seeking to access documents of a private 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. 

4)       You can request copies of documents directly from other
Commonwealth agencies, such as:
Australian Federal Police
[3]Freedom of Information access requests - AFP
Department of Home Affairs
[4]Freedom of information (homeaffairs.gov.au)- external site
Services Australia
[5]Freedom of information - Services Australia- external site
Department of Veterans Affairs
[6]Freedom of information | Department of Veterans' Affairs (dva.gov.au)-
external site
Australian Taxation Office
[7]Freedom of information (FOI) request – individuals and businesses |
Australian Taxation Office (ato.gov.au)- external site
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (passports)
[8]Freedom of information | Australian Government Department of Foreign
Affairs and Trade (dfat.gov.au)- external site

5)       For other Commonwealth or State agencies, please visit that
agency's website and search "freedom of information" or "FOI request".

 

Enquiries and other matters

 

If your email relates to any of the following, please use the OAIC's
online forms instead - at [9]https://www.oaic.gov.au/about-us/contact...

-               Enquiry

-               Privacy Complaint

-               Notifiable Data Breach

-               Consumer Data Right Complaint

-               FOI Complaint

-               Freedom of Information (IC) Review

-               Agency FOI Extension of Time Requests

-               Speech requests.

Notice:

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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
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Our reference: FOIREQ25/00178

 

Dear Alan,

 

Freedom of Information request

I refer to your request for access to documents made under the Freedom of
Information Act 1982 (Cth) (FOI Act). We are writing to you as we need
more information from you about the documents you are seeking. Your FOI
request was received by the Office of the Australian Information
Commissioner (OAIC) on 12 April 2025. This means that a decision on your
FOI request is currently due on 12 May 2025.

 

Scope of your request

Your FOI request was made in the following terms:

“I am seeking, by Agency name, the number of reviews that are open as 31
March 2025.”

 

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, unless you advise me
otherwise. We will not identify you as the FOI applicant during any
consultation process, unless we seek your permission. However, documents
that are within the scope of your request that we may need to consult
third parties about may contain your personal information.

 

Consultation on scope of request

The OAIC would like to confirm that you are requesting by agency name, the
number of FOI Information Commissioner reviews that are currently open as
of 31^st March 2025.

I would appreciate a response to my questions above by COB 17^th April
2025 in order to process your request.

 

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 12 May 2025. 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.

 

Yours sincerely

 

[1][IMG]   Nicole Pantazopoulos

Governance, Risk and Compliance Officer (FOI Officer)

Office of the Australian Information Commissioner

GPO Box 5288 Sydney NSW 2001

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Australia and their continuing connection to land, waters and
communities. We pay our respect to First Nations people,
cultures and Elders past and present.  

 

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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
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