Our references: FA 13/07/00856; ADF2013/22717

 

Good afternoon Mr Swann,

 

I refer to your request for access to documents relating to:

 

Under the FOI Act I request documents held by the Department produced in the last two weeks relating to paid public communications across all media within Australia about the new asylum seeker regional processing policy, including (but not limited to):

    

     - any strategy documents stating the purpose of the campaign, how it will achieve that purpose, how success will be assessed, and how target audiences were chosen;

     - any design briefs and requests for alterations sent from or to the Department;

     - any assessment of the compatibility of this campaign with Government advertising guidelines;

     - any correspondence about the advertising campaign between the Department of Immigration and Citizenship and either the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, and/or the Office of the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship.

 

The current due date for your request is 19 August 2013.  Due to the number of requests currently being processed by our office, we may not be able to finalise your request by the original due date. 

 

DIAC seeks your agreement (under s.15AA of the FOI Act) to extend the timeframe for the processing of your request by 30 days.  This would extend the due date for your request to 18 September 2013.

 

The processing delays experienced by DIAC have been investigated by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner in a recent 'own motion' investigation.  A copy of the report can be accessed at: http://www.oaic.gov.au/publications/reports/immigration_processing_non-routine_FOI_sep2012.html

 

It would assist DIAC in managing its FOI caseload if you could provide a response to this request by close of business, Australian Eastern Standard Time Monday 29 July 2013.

 

Please do not hesitate to contact me should you wish to discuss.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Jessica Hallams

FOI Helpdesk

FOI & Privacy Policy
Department of Immigration and Citizenship
T: (02) 6198 7525
E: [email address]