Catherine Stewart
Senior Information
Governance and Access
Officer
University Governance
Office
xxx@xxx.xxx.xx
24 December 2025
Josh Phillips
Via email:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
FOI 202500301 – Decision Notice
Dear Josh,
On 24 November 2025 the Australian National University received your request seeking
access to documents under the
Freedom of Information Act 1982 (the Act)
.
Scope of the Request
Your request stated you were requesting:
“.. all emails between the Office of the Vice-Chancellor to all members of the
ANU Council from 17 July 2023 to 18 December 2023.”
You specified that you wanted only one copy of any given email (not a copy of each
email sent to all members if they are all on the same email trail).
The purpose of this letter is to provide you with a decision on your request for access
under the Act.
1.
Authority to Make Decision
I am an officer authorised under section 23 of the Act to make decisions in respect of
requests to access documents or to amend or annotate records.
The Australian National University
Canberra 2600, ACT Australia
TEQSA Provider ID: PRV12002 (Australian University)
CRICOS Provider Code: 00120C
2.
Decision
The relevant areas of the University were contacted and a search conducted for
documents relating to the scope of your request, but no relevant paper based or
electronic documents could be located.
I am required to give you a decision on your request. Given that no documents relating
to your request were found to exist, I have decided, as an officer authorised under
section 23(1) of the FOI Act to make decisions in relation to FOI requests, to refuse your
Freedom of Information request under section 24A(1).
If you have any questions or wish to discuss this decision further, please contact me at
xxx@xxx.xxx.xx. Your review rights are outlined on the following page.
Yours sincerely,
Catherine Stewart
Senior Information Governance and Access Officer
University Governance Office
Australian National University
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Your review rights
If you are dissatisfied with my decision, you may apply for internal review or
Information Commissioner review of the decision. We encourage you to seek internal
review as a first step as it may provide a more rapid resolution of your concerns
Application for Internal Review of Decision
Section 54A of the Act, gives you the right to apply for an internal review of my
decision.
It must be made in writing within 30 days of receipt of this letter, no particular form is
required but it is desirable to set out in the application the grounds on which you
consider the decision should be reviewed.
The application should be addressed to Freedom of Information at
xxx@xxx.xxx.xx.
Application for Information Commissioner Review of decision
Under section 54L of the FOI Act, you may apply to the Australian Information
Commissioner to review my decision. An application must be made in writing within 60
days of the date of this letter, and be lodged in one of the following ways:
Form: either online form or downloadable form available at
https://www.oaic.gov.au/freedom-of-information/your-freedom-of-information-
rights/freedom-of-information-reviews/information-commissioner-review
email:
xxxxx@xxxx.xxx.xx
Post: Director of FOI Dispute Resolution, GPO Box 5288, Sydney NSW 2001
More information is available on the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
website.
https://www.oaic.gov.au/freedom-of-information/your-freedom-of-
information-rights/freedom-of-information-reviews
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