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FOI Complaint Form
Previous dealings
If you have lodged a complaint or enquiry with the OAIC before, please provide your previous reference
number
(for example, CP18/00000 or EN18/00000).
Title
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Eilidh
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Wallace
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Commonwealth Ombudsman
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Webform WEB-CP-26-05951
FOI-2025-80163-IR
Please provide a summary of the current status of the FOI Request that has led to this complaint
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Please see reasons set out here -
https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/submissions_to_senate#comment-3628
Complaint Details
Have you complained directly to the relevant agency?
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Yes
Did you receive a response from the agency?
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Yes
Please provide a copy of the agency’s response with this form and explain why you are not satisfied with the
response
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See here for response from agency -
https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/13975/response/45002/attach/4/FOI%2080163%20IR%20Decision%
20Final.pdf?cookie_passthrough=1
Please provide a summary of your complaint
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Please see here for summary of complaint -
https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/submissions_to_senate#comment-3628
The Information Commissioner can make recommendations to the agency that the Commissioner believes
the agency ought to implement as a result of a complaint. Information about the
possible outcomes following
an investigation of an FOI complaint can be found on our website.
The FOI complaint process cannot provide access to the documents you have requested. The
Information
Commissioner review process will ordinarily be more appropriate where the outcome you are seeking is
access to the documents you requested.
What action or result would you like from the Information Commissioner?
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IC review
Supporting documents
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Files you attach must:
be in *.pdf, *.docx, *.doc, *.txt, *.jpg, *.gif, or *.png format
be no more than five files
in total be no larger than 20MB.
FOI 80163 IR Decision Final (185.92 kB)Created date: 02/Jan/2026 03:07 PM
