Airservices FOI 08 25 26 Decision.pdf

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Cathy Minnucci

Office of General Counsel
By email: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
GPO Box 367
CANBERRA CITY   ACT   2601

www.airservicesaustralia.com

ABN 59 698 720 886
Dear Ms Minnucci,

FOI 08/25/26 - Decision on Access

I refer to your email of 16 July 2025 to Airservices Australia requesting access to documents under
the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (the FOI Act).

The purpose of this letter is to provide you with a decision on your request for access under the
FOI Act.

Scope of request

You set out your request in the following terms:

16JULY2025 Hobart Airport PIR reports ..stating that...The assessment has also completed a
Matters of National Environmental Significance (MNES) search of the proposed change using
the Commonwealth Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Protected Matters Search Tool.

Could I please obtain a copy of ALL MNES reports used in the collation of the recent Hobart
Airport PIR assessment reports released 16JULY25.

Authorised decision- maker

I am authorised under section 23 of the FOI Act and the Airservices Instrument of Delegation and
Authorisation to make decisions on primary requests under the FOI Act.

Documents identified

I have identified 17 documents as falling within the scope of the request.

The decision in relation to each document is detailed in the schedule of documents at Attachment
A.

Decision

I have decided to release 17 documents in full. Eight documents have been provided in a
document package and nine documents are publicly available. A link to the publicly available
documents has been provided in the schedule of documents at Attachment A.

Material taken into account

In making my decision, I have had regard to:

a.  the terms of the request;
b.  the content of the identified documents in issue;
c.  relevant provisions of the FOI Act; and

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d.  the Guidelines published by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
under section 93A of the FOI Act (the Guidelines).

Review rights and complaints

Information about your rights of review and how you can make a complaint about the handling of
your request is at Attachment B.

Contact

If you wish to discuss my decision please contact me at xxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.

Yours sincerely

  Chris
Digitally signed by
Chris Simon
  Simon
Date: 2025.08.15
15:06:21 +10'00'

Chris Simon
Authorised FOI Decision Maker

15 August 2025

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ATTACHMENT A

SCHEDULE OF DOCUMENTS

Doc  Date
Description
Decision
#
    01  13 Feb 2025
EPBC Act Protected Matters Report
Ful  release
    02  13 Feb 2025
EPBC Act Protected Matters Report
Ful  release
    03  13 Feb 2025
EPBC Act Protected Matters Report
Ful  release
    04  13 Feb 2025
EPBC Act Protected Matters Report
Ful  release
    05  23 August 2025
EPBC Act Protected Matters Report
Ful  release
    06  19 September 2023
EPBC Act Protected Matters Report
Ful  release
    07  13 Feb 2025
EPBC Act Protected Matters Report
Ful  release
    08  4 June 2025
EPBC Act Protected Matters Report
Ful  release
    09
Gould’s Petrel (Pterodroma leucoptera leucoptera)
Publicly available
Recovery Plan
https://www.dcceew.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/p-
leucoptera.pdf
    10  18 June 2009
Approved Conservation Advice for Lowland Native Grasslands of
Publicly available
Tasmania ecological community
https://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/communit
ies/pubs/74-conservation-advice.pdf

    11
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
Publicly available
(EPBC Act) (s266B)
Conservation Advice for
SUBTROPICAL AND TEMPERATE COASTAL SALTMARSH

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Doc  Date
Description
Decision
#
https://www.dcceew.gov.au/sites/default/files/env/pages/b2a8d6af
-0445-4064-8ff7-48cc9a484ab9/files/118-conservation-advice.pdf

    12
Conservation Management Plan for the Blue Whale
Publicly available
A Recovery Plan under the Environment Protection and
Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
https://www.dcceew.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/blue-
whale-conservation-management-plan.pdf
    13
Threatened Tasmanian Orchids
Publicly available
Flora Recovery Plan
https://www.dcceew.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/recovery
-plan-tasmanian-orchids-2017.pdf
   14
Maria Island National Park Darlington Site Plan October 1998
Publicly available
https://parks.tas.gov.au/Documents/Maria%20Island%20National
%20Park%20Darlington%20Site%20Plan%201998.pdf
   15
Maria Island and Ile des Phoques - Management Plan 1998
Publicly available
https://parks.tas.gov.au/Documents/mariaplanpdf.pdf
   16
National Recovery Plan for albatrosses and petrels (2022)
Publicly available
https://www.dcceew.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/national-
recovery-plan-albatrosses-and-petrels-2022.pdf
   17
National Recovery Plan for the Southern Right Whale
Publicly available
Eubalaena australis
https://www.dcceew.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/national-
recovery-plan-southern-right-whale.pdf

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ATTACHMENT B

INFORMATION ON REVIEW RIGHTS

The Freedom of Information Act 1982 (the FOI Act) gives you the right to apply for a review of this
decision via:

(a)
an internal review; or
(b)
the Australian Information Commissioner (Information Commissioner).

Internal review

If you apply for internal review, it wil  be carried out by a different decision-maker who wil  make a
fresh decision on your application.  An application for review must be:

(a)
made in writing;
(b)
made within 30 days of receiving this letter; and
(c)
sent to xxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.

No particular form is required, but it is desirable to set out in the application the grounds upon which
you consider the decision should be reviewed.

If the internal review results in you not being provided access to all of the documents to which you
have requested access, you have the right to seek a review of that decision by the Information
Commissioner.

Information Commissioner review
You can opt to instead seek external review by the Information Commissioner. To seek review you
must apply to the Information Commissioner within 60 days of the receipt of this decision letter.
Further details on this process can be found on their website at https://www.oaic.gov.au/.
You wil  also have the opportunity to seek Information Commissioner review of an Internal Review if
you are dissatisfied with its outcome.

Complaints to the Information Commissioner

Information Commissioner

You may also complain to the Information Commissioner concerning action taken by an agency in
the exercise of powers or the performance of functions under the FOI Act. There is no fee for
making a complaint. A complaint to the Information Commissioner must be made in writing. Further
details on this process can be found on their website at https://www.oaic.gov.au/.