Dear Mr Styles,

Acknowledgement of your Freedom of Information Request

 

I refer to your request for access to documents under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (the FOI Act) to the following:

‘- Documents created in 2019 concerning the matter of whether rent free housing provided to employees of the Department posted

overseas should be treated as salary for superannuation purposes;

 

- Communications between the Department and the Department of Finance in 2019 concerning the matter of whether rent free housing provided to employees of the Department posted overseas should be treated as salary for superannuation purposes.

I would like to submit an FOI request for the recordings of the phone calls I made to 1800 900 090 on 21 August 2019.’

 

Your request was received by the department on 20 August 2019 and the 30 day statutory period for processing your request commenced from the day after that date. The period of 30 days may be extended if we need to consult third parties or for other reasons. We will advise you if this happens.

 

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Your Address

 

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Disclosure Log

 

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Exclusion of junior department employee details

 

Where details including names, direct contact details or other personal identifiers of junior department employees are included in the scope of a request, this may add to processing time and applicable charges as it may be necessary to consider whether the details are exempt under the FOI Act. On this basis, unless you tell us otherwise, we will assume that these details are out of scope of your request and they will be redacted under section 22 of the FOI Act.

 

Further assistance

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Regards,

 

Freedom of Information Team

Email  [Department of Agriculture and Water Resources request email]

Department of Agriculture www.agriculture.gov.au

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