ONE NATIONAL CIRCUIT 
 
BARTON 
  
 
 
    FOI 
FOI/2020/175 
 
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 1982 
 
REQUEST BY: 
John Smith 
 
DECISION BY:  Michelle Wicks 
 
Chief People Officer 
 
People Branch  
 
 
By email: John Smith xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx  
 
 
Dear Mr Smith 
 
On 30 July 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 seek the following under FOI; 
 
A document that contains a list of all the position/job titles of every non-APS 
contractor working within your department. 
 
e.g. a position title may be: 'security guard', or 'consultant', or 'APS3 FOI officer', etc. 
 
You may omit repeating a position title when there exist multiple contractors who 
have that position title. Additionally, if it would not be too onerous, please indicate the 
number of contractors that hold each position title. 
 
If no such document exists please produce a document containing the information 
under s17. 
 
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 
contains the information you have requested (the requested document).  
 
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 

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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 under the FOI Act is available at 
https://www.oaic.gov.au/freedom-of-information/reviews-and-complaints/. 
 
Complaint rights  
 
You may make a complaint to the Information Commissioner about the Department’s actions 
in relation to a request. Making a complaint about the way the Department has handled an 
FOI request is a separate process to seeking review of the Department’s decision. Further 
information about how to make a complaint is available at https://www.oaic.gov.au/freedom-
of-information/reviews-and-complaints/make-an-foi-complaint/.   
 
Yours sincerely 
 
Michelle Wicks 
Chief People Officer 
People Branch 
 
31 August 2020 
 
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