Freedom of Information request dated 5 September 2023
A Q-S
Schedule of documents
Australian Human Rights Commission (Commission) documents
Doc
Decision
Pages
No.
Date
Description
1.
18.11.2016 Global Alliance of National Human Rights
Released in part, s 22.
1 - 17
Institutions (GANHRI) Sub-Committee on
Accreditation (SCA) report – November 2016
From reviewing the 62 page document and the scope of
the request, I consider that pages 18 to 62 are irrelevant
as they do not relate to the Australian Human Rights
Commission. On this basis, I have not produced these
pages under s 22 of the FOI Act.
2.
6.10.2021
Statement of compliance with the Paris Principles Released in part, s 22
18 - 34
of the Australian Human Rights Commission
2021
From reviewing the 75 page document and the scope of
the request, I consider that pages 18 - 75 are irrelevant
as they do not relate to the contents of the particular
excerpts in the FOI request (including the ‘Government’s
Merit and Transparency Policy’ of the Australian Public
Service Commission, appointments of the Disability
Discrimination Commissioner in 2019 and the Human
Rights Commissioner in 2021, and related funding of the
Commission). On this basis, I have not produced these
pages under s 22 of the FOI Act.
Supporting document 12 – Attorney-General’s
Released in full
35 - 37
N/A
2A.
Department List of Appointments 2016 – 2021
Supporting document 26 – Letter from the
Released in full
38
2B.
11.03.2022 Attorney-General to President Croucher
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Freedom of Information request dated 5 September 2023
A Q-S
Schedule of documents
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Decision
Pages
No.
Date
Description
Email from Leanne Smith to the Office of the
Released in part, s 22 (redactions applied to names of
39 - 49
3. 22.02.2022 Attorney General regarding GANHRI
non-SES officers)
accreditation process
Email from Commission to SCA secretariat
Released in part, s 22 (redactions applied to names
50 - 56
attaching Australia Human Rights Commission –
and personal details of non-SES officers)
response to article and Supporting document 24.
4. 22.02.2022 Memo to Attorney-General
Supporting document 24 not released as contents not
relevant to scope of request.
57 - 60
SCA briefing document
Released in part, s 22
From reviewing the 24 page document and the scope of
the request, I consider that pages 1 - 6 and 11 - 24 are
5. 14.03.2022
irrelevant as they do not relate to the contents of the
particular excerpts in the FOI request.
On this basis, I have not produced these pages under s
22 of the FOI Act.
61 - 72
6. 15.09.2021
NHRI accreditation 2021-22 background
Released in full
Email from Commission to SCA secretariat
Released in part, s 22 (redactions applied to the names
73 - 80
attaching ‘Australia Summary with Australian
of non-SES staff)
Human Rights Commission response” and
7. 23.02.2022
Supporting document 25 – Public Governance,
Supporting document 25 not released as content of
Performance and Accountability Act 2013
document is not relevant to the scope of the request.
6 November 2023
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