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Dear Mr Gothe-Snape

Thank you for your email.

Your request is being treated as a request for administrative access to documents. The document will be provided to you in due course but no later than 15 December 2016. This timeframe is in line with timeframes under the FOI Act.

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact me at [Department of Social Services request email].

Clare McLean
Principal Legal Officer and FOI Coordinator
Commercial and Corporate Law Branch
Corporate Services Group
Department of Social Services
[Department of Social Services request email]

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From: Jackson Gothe-Snape [mailto:[FOI #2739 email]]
Sent: Tuesday, 15 November 2016 8:40 PM
To: FOI
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Supplementary Budget Estimates topics

Dear Department of Social Services,

If possible, please treat this as an administrative or informal request.

Otherwise, please consider this a request under the FOI Act.

Can you please provide the topics list for briefs created in preparation for hearings of Senate 2016-2017 Supplementary Budget Estimates.

I ask that all fees in relation to this request be waived because the release of the documents is in the public interest. The documents help identify the most important policy areas within the department's responsibilities.

Yours faithfully,

Jackson Gothe-Snape

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Dear Mr Gothe-Snape,

Please find attached one (1) document which comes within scope of your
request as follows:

“Can you please provide the topics list for briefs created in preparation
for hearings of Senate 2016-2017 Supplementary Budget Estimates.”

As advised in our email to you of 29 November 2016, this document is being
made available to you under administrative access arrangements, not under
the FOI Act.

If you have any questions please contact [1][Department of Social Services request email]

Kind regards,

FOI Team

Government and Legal Services Branch

Corporate Services Group

Department of Social Services
[2][Department of Social Services request email]

DSS acknowledges the traditional owners of country throughout Australia,
and their continuing connection to land, sea and community. We pay our
respects to them and their cultures, and to elders both past and
present.            

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error, please let me know by reply email and then delete this email from
your system and do not retain any copy.  Recipients within DSS should seek
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