25 July 2025
HighFlyer
BY EMAIL: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
In reply please quote:
FOI Request:
FA 25/07/00386
File Number:
FA25/07/00386
Dear HighFlyer,
I refer to your email dated 5 July 2025, in which you requested access to documents held by the
Department of Home Af airs (the Department) under the
Freedom of Information Act 1982
(the FOI Act).
You have requested access to the following:
I would like to request the following documents by way of the Freedom of Information Act
(Commonwealth).
The scope of this request is all executive employees who held a membership to the
Qantas Chairmans Lounge or the Virgins Beyond Lounge, at any time during the period
1 July 2024 - 30 June 2025.
Please provide, for this same period:
1. Any documents that detail official work completed during any attendance at one of the
above-mentioned airline lounges. This could include for example meeting invites,
meeting notes, agenda items, etc
2. Al documents showing flight details where the departure or arrival airport has either of
the above-mentioned lounges.
3. Al documents detailing any meal allowances paid to the executive employee in
respect of travel undertaken on the above flights.
For privacy reasons I am happy for the dates and locations (ie. airports) be redacted,
providing the documents are labelled or ordered in such a way that the flights can be
connected with any related meal allowance (if applicable).
PO Box 25 Belconnen ACT 2616 • xxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx • www.homeaffairs.gov.au
I am satisfied that the Department would be required to divert significant resources from its
current operations in order to identify, locate and collate the documents held within the
Department, and to make a decision on access to those documents. This diversion would result
in a significant drain on the resources of the area within the Department that would be required
to process this request.
I consider that this would result in this request imposing both a substantial and an unreasonable
diversion of resources of the Department from its other operations and that a practical refusal
reason exists in relation to this request.
You now have an opportunity to revise your request to enable it to proceed.
Under section 24AB(6) of the FOI Act, you have 14 days to do one of the following:
• withdraw your request;
• make a revised request;
• indicate that you do not wish to revise your request.
If you do not do one of the three things listed above during the consultation period (14 days), or
you do not consult the contact person listed below during this period, your request wil be taken
to have been withdrawn in accordance with section 24AB(7) of the FOI Act.
Contact
Should you wish to revise your request or have any questions in relation to this process, please
do not hesitate to contact the FOI Section at xxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx.
Yours sincerely,
[Electronically signed]
Sadaf
Position No. 60207400
Authorised Decision Maker
Department of Home Affairs
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