ONE NATIONAL CIRCUIT
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FOI
FOI/2020/099
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 1982
REQUEST BY:
John Smith
DECISION BY: Will Story
Acting First Assistant Secretary
APS Reform
By ema
il: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx Dear Mr Smith
On 7 May 2020, you made a request to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (the
Department) under the
Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cth) (
FOI Act) in the following
terms:
I request the following information:
- The titles of all final reports delivered to DPMC, by the consulting firm McKinsey or
any of its associates, since 1 Jan 2016.
- The delivery dates of all final reports delivered to DPMC, by the consulting firm
McKinsey or any of its associates since 1 Jan 2016
To be clear, I am not requesting the title page, I am instead am instead requesting the
title/names of all reports that have been delivered by McKinsey. This should be no
more than a few words for each relevant document.
Please exclude duplicates from this FOI request.
The reason I am making this request, is that the subject matter of any given tender is
not visible to the end-user on Austender. Through viewing the titles of each of those
reports, I will have a useful index for identifying which McKinsey reports (if any) are
worth purusing in future FOIs.
Given the recent, significant public interest in McKinsey's consulting activities with
the Australian public sector; and the firm's conduct abroad, I request that the usually
applicable FOI fees be waived in this instance.
Postal Address: PO Box 6500, CANBERRA ACT 2600
Telephone: +61 2 6271 5849 Fax: +61 2 6271 5776 www.pmc.gov.au ABN: 18 108 001 191
On 7 May 2020 you further clarified your request as follows:
Please confine the request to only include the title/delivery dates of reports stored on
either:
• the Department’s email system for emails with an attachment received by
@pmc.gov.au accounts from @mckinsey.com accounts; • the Department’s electronic
records system.
Authorised decision-maker
I am authorised to make this decision in accordance with arrangements approved by the
Department’s Secretary under section 23 of the FOI Act.
Decision
In accordance with section 17 of the FOI Act, the Department has created a document that
includes the information you have requested (the
requested document).
I have decided to grant access to the requested document.
A copy of the requested document is
attached to this decision.
Processing and access charges
I have decided not to impose charges in respect of your request.
Publication of the document
Under section 11C of the FOI Act, the Department will make arrangements to publish the
document released to you on the Department’s website in its FOI Disclosure Log.
Review rights
Information about your rights of review can be found on the website of the Office of the
Australian Information Commissioner at https://www.oaic.gov.au/freedom-of-
information/reviews-and-complaints/.
Complaint rights
Information about your complaint rights can be found on the website of the Office of the
Australian Information Commissioner at https://www.oaic.gov.au/freedom-of-
information/reviews-and-complaints/.
Yours sincerely
Will Story
Acting First Assistant Secretary
APS Reform
9 July 2020
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