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OFFICIAL
Good afternoon

Thank you for your request, which was received by the Attorney-General’s Department (the department) Freedom of Information (FOI) team on 12 May 2025.

Your request is for a document that is over 20 years old. After 20 years, documents enter the ‘open access’ period under the Archives Act 1983 (Archives Act) and are transferred to and administered by the National Archives. These documents are primarily exempt from the FOI process under s 12(1)(a) of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 and access to such documents is subsequently facilitated through the Archives Act.

More information about how to access information via the Archives and FOI Acts can be found on the National Archives website here: https://www.naa.gov.au/about-us/our-orga...

We suggest contacting the National Archives as the next step in your search and kindly invite you to withdraw your FOI request to the department.

Kind regards

Freedom of Information & Privacy
Attorney-General’s Department
Phone: (02) 6141 6666
Email: [AGD request email]
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OFFICIAL
Good afternoon,

Further to the email below, I seek your agreement to withdraw your request on the basis that documents older than 20 years are exempt from the FOI process under s 12(1)(a) of the Freedom of Information Act 1982. Access to such documents is subsequently facilitated through the Archives Act.

I would be grateful for your response by COB Wednesday 21 May 2025.

Kind regards,

Rachel
Freedom of Information & Privacy
Attorney-General’s Department
Phone: 02 6141 6666 | Email:  [AGD request email]

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Thank you for contacting the Freedom of Information (FOI) team at the
Attorney-General’s Department (the department). We get a high volume of
emails and FOI applications and work to respond as promptly as possible.
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[AGD request email] mailbox. If you have written to the department to submit an
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Information Act 1982 (the FOI Act). For information on how to make a
request under the FOI Act please refer to:
https://www.ag.gov.au/rights-and-protect....
For enquiries about other matters, please refer to:
https://www.ag.gov.au/about-us/connect-u....
The statutory processing time for FOI requests is 30 days, however this
may be extended if the department needs to consult third parties or for
other reasons. If you have submitted an FOI request, the department will
write to you again within 30 days of receiving your request. This
correspondence may:
* provide assistance to you to help you make a valid FOI request,
* seek further information from you to help us process your request,
* provide you with a decision on your FOI request, or
* discuss whether an extension of time is needed to process your request.
Please do not send duplicate emails as this may cause delays to processing
times.
This FOI inbox is monitored during business hours Monday to Friday,
excluding public holidays.
You can expect our team to provide a helpful, respectful service and we
expect respectful engagement in return.
Under s 89L of the FOI Act, disrespectful, threatening or abusive language
may be an abuse of the access action process. If this happens, we may not
be able to help you or we might take steps to manage how we communicate
with you.
If you have received this transmission in error please notify us
immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. If this e-mail or any
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