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Dear Mr Richards,

I refer to your email dated 9 July 2018 in which you seek access to
documents under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (the Act) as follows:

Documents showing the annual budget for Task-force Nemesis and documents
showing the actual spend per year since the Task-force began in Canberra

Information considered irrelevant to the scope of your request

The AFP, in its management of FOI requests, excludes the following
information on the basis that is irrelevant to the scope of a request:

-      Names of AFP members, other than the Senior Executive.

-      Direct telephone numbers, signatures and mobile telephone numbers
of AFP members.

-      Duplicate documents, including duplicate emails.  The AFP will only
provide emails where they form a final email chain and the
authors/recipients are contained within the final email. 

-      Information that is publicly available, for example, newspaper
articles, online publications including information available on the AFP
Information Publication Scheme and the AFP disclosure log.

If you object to the AFP excluding any of the above information, please
advise this office within seven days of receipt of this letter.

Timeframes

Your request was received by this agency on 9 July 2018, and the 30 day
statutory period for processing your request commenced from that date.

Charges

You will be notified of any charges in accordance with the Freedom of
Information (Fees and Charges) Regulations, should they apply, in relation
to your request as soon as practicable. 

Disclosure Log

Please be advised that in accordance with section 11C of the Act, an
agency is required to publish information on their website following the
notification of a decision in respect of a freedom of information
request. 

The requirement to publish information released under FOI reinforces the
objectives of the FOI Act to promote a pro-disclosure culture across
government and to increase recognition that information held by government
is a national resource.  Exceptions to the requirement to publish
information would apply to personal information and information concerning
the business affairs of a person if it was considered ‘unreasonable’ to do
so.  Details of the decision may be published in a Disclosure Log which
can be found at
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Publication will be made in accordance with timeframes stipulated in
section 11C of the Act.

If, however, after noting the above, you wish to raise any concerns about
the publication of information concerning your request prior to the
notification of a decision, please advise this office in writing before 8
August 2018.  If you do not raise any concerns prior to the date of the
decision, the AFP will publish the information as notified to you in the
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Yours sincerely,

TANYA (AFP14692)
FOI TEAM MEMBER

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
CHIEF COUNSEL

Tel +61(0) 2 61316131

I am unavailable Fridays.
[2]Australian Federal Police

UNCLASSIFIED

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UNCLASSIFIED

Dear Mr Richards

I refer to your application dated 9 July 2018 in which you seek access to
documents under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (the Act),
specifically the annual budget for Taskforce Nemesis and documents showing
the actual spend per year since the Taskforce began in Canberra.

Upon consideration of your request, the AFP is of the view that your
request will take longer than 30 days to process.  The delay is
regrettable, however, due to further search inquiries being undertaken to
locate the information, it will not be possible to advise you of a
decision by 8 August 2018.

Accordingly, pursuant to section 15AA of the Act, I seek your agreement to
extend the period to notify you of a decision to 7 September 2018.

I would be grateful if you would advise this office in writing of your
agreement to the proposed extension of time. 

If you have any queries in relation to this matter, please do not hesitate
to contact this office.

Yours sincerely,

JACQUELINE (AFP12306)
PRINCIPAL FOI OFFICER/TEAM LEADER, FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
CHIEF COUNSEL

Tel +61(0) 2 6131 6131

[1]www.afp.gov.au
[2]Australian Federal Police

UNCLASSIFIED

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UNCLASSIFIED

Dear Mr Richards

I refer to your request for documents showing the annual budget and actual
spend for Task force Nemesis.

Following advice from the relevant line area, I am advised that we are
only able to locate information relating to the annual budget for
Nemesis. 

It is not possible to provide a document in a discrete form as required by
s17 of the FOI Act.  Information relating to the actual spend would
require extensive searching and manually cross-checking our internal
reporting codes against expenditure.  To compile this information as it
currently stands would be a substantial diversion of resources. 

Noting the above, would you be agreeable to revising the scope to only
information relating to the annual budget?

regards

JACQUELINE ELLERY
PRINCIPAL FOI OFFICER/TEAM LEADER, FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
CHIEF COUNSEL

Tel +61(0) 2 6131 6131

[1]www.afp.gov.au
[2]Australian Federal Police

UNCLASSIFIED

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UNCLASSIFIED

Dear Mr Richards

Please find attached a decision in relation to your FOI request.

Regards,

JACQUELINE (AFP12306)

PRINCIPAL FOI OFFICER/TEAM LEADER, FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
CHIEF COUNSEL

Tel +61(0) 2 61316131

[1]www.afp.gov.au
[2]Australian Federal Police

UNCLASSIFIED

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