If not delivered return to PO Box 7820 Canberra BC ACT 2610
27 June 2017
Our reference: LEX 30072
Mr Anatoly Kern
By email:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx Dear Mr Kern
Your Freedom of Information request is invalid
I am writing in relation to your request, dated 3 June 2017, and received by the Department
of Human Services (the
department) on the same day for access under the
Freedom of
Information Act 1982 (the
FOI Act) to the following:
‘I am looking to understand the factual basis behind #21fathers campaign from
Australian Brotherhood of Fathers in correlation to the actions of Child Support Smart
Centers.
I am using the publicly available stats from http://www.mindframe-media.info/for-
media/reporting-suicide/facts-and-stats for the reference.
Could you please provide the following information, for 2015 year:
1) The number of cases closed due to terminating event of a death of the payer.
2) Out of this cases, the number of cases, where during previous year/same year
there were actions done by Child Support Smart Centers, under s 72a/72d.’
I am writing to advise you that your request for access to documents is invalid. Section 12 of
the FOI Act relevantly provides that a person is not entitled to obtain access under the FOI
Act to:
‘(b) a document that is open to public access as part of a public register or
otherwise… where that access is subject to a fee or other charge;’
The data you are requesting is available to you for a fee through the Information
Management Branch. Accordingly, your request is invalid for the purposes of the FOI Act and
the FOI team will not take any further action in relation to your request.
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If you would like to proceed please contact the Information Management Branch to lodge
your request for data. You can contact the Branch by email to
xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx or by post to:
Internal and External Gateway Section
Information Management Branch
Department of Human Services
PO Box 7788
Canberra BC ACT 2610
Plea
se see https://www.humanservices.gov.au/corporate/statistical-information-and-data for
further information regarding costs or requests for statistics and data in general.
Further assistance
If you have any questions please email
xxx.xxxxx.xxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx.
Yours sincerely
Freedom of Information Team
FOI and Litigation Branch | Legal Services Division
Department of Human Services
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