FOI DISCLOSURE LOG
The Remuneration Tribunal is required by section 11C of the
Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act) to publish a disclosure log on its website.
The FOI disclosure log lists information which has been released by the Tribunal in response to an
FOI access request. This requirement has applied since 1 May 2011.
The disclosure log requirement does not apply to:
• personal information about any person if publication of that information would be
'unreasonable';
• information about the business, commercial, financial or professional affairs of any person if
publication of that information would be 'unreasonable';
• other information, covered by a determination made by the Australian Information
Commissioner, if publication of that information would be 'unreasonable';
• any information if it is not reasonably practicable to publish the information because of the
extent of modifications that would need to be made to delete the information listed in the
above points.
The information described in the disclosure log table below has been released by the Tribunal under
the FOI Act and is available for public access.
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Information that is not available online may be obtained by contacting the FOI Contact Officer at:
Remuneration Tribunal Secretariat
PO Box 281
Civic Square ACT 2608
Tel: 02 6202 3930
Email: xxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
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The Tribunal’s FOI disclosure log, shown in reverse chronological order:
2018
Reference Number
4/2018
Date of Access
21 January 2019
FOI Request
The applicant requested al documents dated between 1 January 2006
and 31 August 2006 relating to remuneration for the managing director
of Tourism Australia including but not limited to documents relating to a
payment at the termination of employment.
Information Published Twelve documents were identified to be within the scope of the request:
in the Disclosure Log
seven documents were ful y exempt; four documents were released in
full; and one document was released with a partial exemption.
Other Information
Reference Number
3/2018
Date of Access
Access refused under section 24A of the FOI Act
FOI Request
The applicant sought copies of any submissions made by Ms Helen Szuty,
to the Remuneration Tribunal in respect to their 1993 review, which
resulted in an article in the Canberra Times on Wednesday 6 October
1993.
Information Published No documents could be found as they are no longer held by the agency
in the Disclosure Log
or do not exist.
Other Information
Any documents that within the scope of the request are no longer held
by the Tribunal, and instead are a publicly available resource, held by the
National Archives of Australia.
Reference Number
2/2018
Date of Access
16 April 2018
FOI Request
The applicant requested documents written by Members of Parliament
or Ministers of the Crown in the period from 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017
seeking higher remuneration for offices and individual office holders
based at least in part on private sector remuneration.
Information Published Eight documents were released in part.
in the Disclosure Log
Other Information
Reference Number
1/2018
Date of Access
No access
FOI Request
The applicant requested submissions written by Members of Parliament
or Ministers of the Crown seeking higher remuneration for offices and
individual office holders based at least in part on private sector
remuneration.
Information Published No documents exist that were relevant to this request.
in the Disclosure Log
Other Information
FOI request withdrawn
2017
Reference Number
1/17
Date of Access
No access
FOI Request
The applicant sought the submissions to the Remuneration Tribunal’s
2016 decisions regarding federal parliamentary salaries and allowances.
Information Published No documents exist that were relevant to this request.
in the Disclosure Log
Other Information
2016
Reference Number
2/16
Date of Access
29 November 2016
FOI Request
The applicant sought the submissions as listed in the Tribunals Interim
October statement on the Judicial and Related Offices review.
Information Published Submissions sought by the applicant are available on the Remuneration
in the Disclosure Log
Tribun
al Website.
Other Information
Reference Number
1/16
Date of Access
No access
FOI Request
The applicant sought documents containing information about: any
analysis and/or review and/or report and/or advice produced in the last
2 years relating to forecast and/or possible trends in relation to
increased expenditure on politician’s salaries and/or expenses and/or
superannuation in the future including over the next 20 years.
Information Published No documents exist that were relevant to this request.
in the Disclosure Log
Other Information
2015
Reference Number
1/15
Date of Access
7 August 2015
FOI Request
The applicant sought copies of any queries, emails and so on from
politicians and any correspondence from politicians to the Tribunal from
October 2013 to 11 June 2015.
Information Published 38 documents were identified in the Tribunal’s records and released
in the Disclosure Log
with minor redactions relating to personal information.
Other Information
2013
Reference Number
2/13
Date of Access
14 November 2013
FOI Request
The applicant sought copies of any queries, letters, emails and so on from
politicians and any responses or correspondence from the Tribunal to
politicians from 1 October 2011 to 1 October 2013.
Information Published 17 documents were identified in the Tribunal’s records and released with
in the Disclosure Log
minor redactions relating to personal information.
Other Information
Reference Number
1/13
Date of Access
9 September 2013
FOI Request
The applicant sought documents that contained the following
information: submissions or other correspondence, requests or reports
pertaining to the 2013 Annual Review of Remuneration for Public Office
Holders.
Information Published The applicant was advised that Tribunal annual reviews are internally
in the Disclosure Log
driven and that no submissions were received. Most of the documents
used were publicly available (e.g. Reserve Bank minutes); a sample of a
brief to the Tribunal summarising the publicly available information and
two items of correspondence were released.
Other Information
2012
Reference
3/12
Number
Date of
No access
Access
FOI Request The applicant sought copies of submissions (if any) made by Fair Work Australia
tribunal members to the Tribunal seeking to change their entitlements, for the
period of 1 July 2009 to 26 June 2012.
This request was part-transferred to the Tribunal from Fair Work Australia.
Information No relevant documents found.
Published in
the
Disclosure
Log
Other
Information
Reference
2/12
Number
Date of
20 July 2012
Access
FOI Request The applicant sought all documentation relating to the Tribunal's reviews of the
offices of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, the Australian Competition
and Consumer Commission, and the Australian Securities and Investments
Commission, that were conducted in 2005 (with findings published in 2006) and
again in 2011. The information required included, but was not limited to:
(1) The reviews conducted by the Tribunal and any parties commissioned by the
Tribunal that include consideration of the current circumstances of each of the
named agencies and background to remuneration arrangements.
(2) Any submissions made by the agencies or any other parties.
(3) Meeting notes or other documents relating to any interviews conducted with
officeholders, Ministers or any other relevant parties.
(4) Any documentation for each review that pertained to compensation for loss of
office.
Information The applicant was provided with 29 documents released in ful and 23 documents
Published in that were part redacted. The redactions primarily related to what the decision
the
maker decided would be the unreasonable release of personal information, or
Disclosure
sections of documents containing material outside the scope of the FOI request.
Log
Other
Information
Reference
1/12
Number
Date of
No FOI access
Access
FOI Request The applicant sought access to the consultancy report supplied by Egan Associates
P/L entitled the ‘Assessment of Work by Parliamentarians’.
Information The applicant was directed to where to find the document, which by the time the
Published in request was finalised had become publicly available.
the
http://www.remtribunal.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/24876/Parliamentary-
Disclosure
Report-by-J-Egan.pdf
Log
Other
Information
2011
Reference
2/11
Number
Date of
No FOI access
Access
FOI Request The applicant sought access to the consultancy report supplied by Egan Associates
P/L entitled the ‘Assessment of Work by Parliamentarians’.
Information The applicant was directed to where to find the document, which by the time the
Published in request was finalised had become publicly available.
the
http://www.remtribunal.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/24876/Parliamentary-
Disclosure
Report-by-J-Egan.pdf
Log
Other
Information
Reference
1/11
Number
Date of
1 December 2011
Access
FOI Request Applicant requested:
(1) Documents relating to the Tribunal’s current review of parliamentary
remuneration, including the “assessment of the work of federal parliamentary
backbenchers” by a consultant referred to in the statement by the Tribunal
issued on this matter on 20 September 2011. Also, any costs incurred by the
Tribunal in payment for this assessment by a consultant.
(2) Documents relating to a future benchmark for parliamentary remuneration.
(3) Submissions by MPs to the Tribunal regarding these deliberations covering the
period May 2011 to 11 October 2011.
(4) Letters and correspondence from the Special Minister of State (SMOS) to the
Tribunal regarding these matters. Correspondence from the Tribunal to the
SMOS with regards to these matters.
Information The applicant was provided with 25 documents relating to part (1) of the request,
Published in no documents were identified in relation to part (2), three documents were
the
released in relation to part (3) and three documents in relation to part (4). The
Disclosure
applicant was not denied access to any documents.
Log
Other
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