Stephanie Foster

Jason Potts made this Freedom of Information request to Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

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Dear Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet,

Under the FOI Act, I seek access to any document contained within Ms Stephanie Foster’s (Deputy Secretary – Governance, at PMC) email client (likely Microsoft Outlook) that contains either (or both) of the following terms:

i) “Bettina Arndt”; and/or
ii) “Hadgkiss”

Documents falling within the scope of my request can be quickly identified and retrieved by searching all items (including archived items) in Ms Foster’s PMC issued email account for the terms “Bettina Arndt” and/or “Hadgkiss”.

Regards

Jason Potts

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OFFICIAL

Dear Mr Potts

I refer to your email, dated 31 January 2020, and received by the
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (the Department), in which
you made a request to the Department under the Freedom of Information Act
1982 (the FOI Act) in the following terms:

Under the FOI Act, I seek access to any document contained within Ms
Stephanie Foster’s (Deputy Secretary – Governance, at PMC) email client
(likely Microsoft Outlook) that contains either (or both) of the following
terms:

i) “Bettina Arndt”; and/or

ii) “Hadgkiss”

Documents falling within the scope of my request can be quickly identified
and retrieved by searching all items (including archived items) in Ms
Foster’s PMC issued email account for the terms “Bettina Arndt” and/or
“Hadgkiss”.

Timeframe for receiving your decision

We received your request on 31 January 2020 and the 30 day statutory
period for processing your request commenced from the day after that date.
You should therefore expect a decision from us by 2 March 2020. The period
of 30 days may be extended in certain circumstances. We will advise you if
there is any extension of time.

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Exclusion of officers’ names and contact details

For documents that fall within scope of the request, it is the
Department’s policy to withhold:

· any person’s signature;

· the names and contact details of Australian Public Service
officers not in the Senior Executive Service (SES);

· the mobile or direct numbers of SES officers;

· the names and contact details of Ministerial staff at a level
below Chief of Staff.

The names and other details of SES officers will not be withheld unless
there is some reason for that information to be exempt from release. If
you require signatures, the names and contact details of non-SES officers
or Ministerial staff below the level of Chief of Staff, or the mobile or
direct numbers of SES officers please let us know at [3][DPMC request email] so
the decision-maker may consider; otherwise we will take it that you agree
to that information being excluded from the scope of your request (that
is, the information will be treated as irrelevant and redacted from any
documents for release).

We will write again when the Department has more information. Further
information on FOI processing can be found at the website of the Office of
the Australian Information Commissioner at [4]www.oaic.gov.au

Yours sincerely

FOI Adviser

FOI and Privacy Section| Legal Policy Branch

Government Division | Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

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