I seek copy of those documents identified within scope.
Decision
I am an officer authorised under s 23(1) of the FOI Act to make decisions in relation to FOI
requests.
Documents within scope
I have located 8 documents that fal within the scope of your request. A schedule describing
each document and the access decision I have made is at Appendix A to this decision.
I have decided to release the 8 documents in ful .
I note that the Australian Public Service Commission (APSC) was consulted in relation to this
FOI request. The APSC noted that the documents contain material which is more than 6
years old, some of which has been updated and conveyed into guidance material available
at https://www.apsc.gov.au/cyber-bullying-aps-employees-members-public.
Please see the fol owing page for information about your review rights and information
about the OAIC’s disclosure log.
Yours sincerely,
Amanda Nowland
Senior Lawyer
10 December 2018
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If you disagree with my decision
Internal review
You have the right to apply for an internal review of my decision under Part VI of the FOI Act.
An internal review will be conducted, to the extent possible, by an officer of the OAIC who
was not involved in or consulted in the making of my decision. If you wish to apply for an
internal review, you must do so in writing within 30 days. There is no application fee for
internal review.
If you wish to apply for an internal review, please mark your application for the attention of
the FOI Coordinator and state the grounds on which you consider that my decision should be
reviewed.
Further Review
You have the right to seek review of this decision by the Information Commissioner and the
Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT).
You may apply to the Information Commissioner for a review of my decision (IC review). If
you wish to apply for IC review, you must do so in writing within 60 days. Your application
must provide an address (which can be an email address or fax number) that we can send
notices to, and include a copy of this letter. A request for IC review can be made in relation to
my decision, or an internal review decision.
It is the Information Commissioner’s view that it will usual y not be in the interests of the
administration of the FOI Act to conduct an IC review of a decision, or an internal review
decision, made by the agency that the Information Commissioner heads: the OAIC. For this
reason, if you make an application for IC review of my decision, it is likely that the
Information Commissioner wil decide (under s 54W(b) of the FOI Act) not to undertake an IC
review on the basis that it is desirable that my decision be considered by the AAT.
Section 57A of the FOI Act provides that, before you can apply to the AAT for review of an FOI
decision, you must first have applied for IC review.
Applications for internal review or IC review can be submitted to:
Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
GPO Box 5218
SYDNEY NSW 2001
Alternatively, you can submit your application by email to xxx@xxxx.xxx.xx, or by fax on
02 9284 9666.
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Accessing your information
If you would like access to the information that we hold about you, please
contact xxxxx@xxxx.xxx.xx. More information is available on the
Access our
information page on our website.
Disclosure log
Section 11C of the FOI Act requires agencies to publish online documents released to
members of the public within 10 days of release, except if they contain personal or business
information that would be unreasonable to publish.
The documents do not contain personal or business information that it would be
unreasonable to publish. As a result, I have decided that the documents will be published on
our disclosure log after they are released to you.
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APPENDIX A
Document
Page
Decision
number
number
Number
Date
on access
Description
Exemption
of pages
1
1
18/9/12
Release in
full
2
Meeting agenda and notes
None
2
3
31/7/12
Release in
None
2
Record of meeting
full
3
5
8/8/12
Release in
None
3
Email OAIC to APSC
full
4
8
6/8/12
Release in
None
2
Email APSC to OAIC
full
5
10
1/8/12
Release in
None
2
Notes of meeting
full
6
12
1/8/12
Release in
None
1
Email OAIC to APSC
full
7
30/7/12
13
Release in
None
2
Internal OAIC email
full
8
15
31/7/12
Release in
None
2
Background paper
full
