From:
FOI
To:
"J M"
Subject:
Freedom of Information Request 2033 - Notification of Receipt [SEC=OFFICIAL]
Date:
Tuesday, 20 October 2020 10:33:21 AM
Attachments:
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Dear J M
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST – NOTIFICATION OF RECEIPT
I am writing to notify you that the Department of Health (department) has received your
request (in your below email) for access to documents under the
Freedom of
Information Act 1982 (Cth)
(FOI Act).
The department will take all reasonable steps to notify you of a decision no later than 30
calendar days after the date your request was received. You will be contacted where a
charge is applied for processing your request or if we need to consult a third party.
Unless you advise otherwise, duplicate documents and Commonwealth employee
names and contact details below Senior Executive Service level and mobile telephone
THE
numbers of all staff will be excluded from the scope of your request under s22(1)(a)(ii)
of the FOI Act.
UNDER (CTH)
You can contact the FOI Unit on (02) 6289 1666, or via email at
xxx@xxxxxx.xxx.xx,
should you have any enquiries.
RELEASED 1982
Regards
BEEN HEALTH
ACT
FOI Officer
OF
HAS
FOI and Legislation Section
Legal & Assurance Division | Corporate Operations Group
Legal Advice & Legislation Branch
Australian Government Department of Health
INFORMATION
T: 02 6289 1666
| E: xxx@xxxxxx.xxx.xx
DEPARTMENT
OF
GPO Box 9848, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
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The Department of Health acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Australia and their continued
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connection to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to all Elders past and present.
BY
FREEDOM
If you receive this email in error, please delete it and contact the sender immediately.
-----Original Message-----
From: J M <xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx>
Sent: Tuesday, 13 October 2020 9:48 PM
To: FOI <xxx@xxxxxx.xxx.xx>
Subject: TRIM: Re: Freedom of Information Request 1958 - Notice of Decision [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]
Dear FOI,
Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately, I am dissatisfied with the outcome of my request.
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Furthermore, the links provided were not an alternative source of the information requested.
I am choosing to clarify the nature of my request as the following sentence from your reply
implies incorrectly that I am requesting a specific document for release:
"the department does not hold THE DOCUMEMT referred to in your request."
Referring back to my original request:
"I am requesting a SUMMARY REPORT of all.."
I recognise that my request may have implied that a document may already exist, but I was
actually asking for a summary that did not, unless it did exist.
As a consequence of this mix-up, I am now clarifying my request to access all, or as many of the
following as possible:
1. Any internal documents regarding co-morbidities pertinent to COVID-19 death/s.
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2. Any internal documents regarding contributing factors pertinent to COVID-19 death/s.
3. Any internal documents regarding aggregated statistics pertinent to contributing factors
(CTH)
AND/OR co-morbidities related to COVID-19 deaths.
UNDER
4. Any internal documents regarding aggregated statistics pertinent to COVID-19 deaths.
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5. Any internal documents regarding statistical analysis of COVID-19 deaths.
6. Any internal documents regarding the analysis of COVID-19 deaths.
BEEN HEALTH
ACT
OF
If any or all of the above are not available to this department, I would respectfully ask that you
HAS
transfer this request to the most relevant department.
Again, I would like to reiterate the importance of this request to the public. Citizens are dying -
INFORMATION
and the analytics currently available to the public regarding deaths are not sufficient enough for
DEPARTMENT
OF
an individual to personally assess their own risk of death due to contraction and subsequent
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infection of the COVID-19 virus.
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BY
It is imperative that every Australian citizen know as much as possible about the lifestyles of the
FREEDOM
individuals who have died as a result of the virus for them to be able to modulate and amend
their own lifestyles in a way that can statistically reduce their chances of death - none of this is
possible without knowing what other diseases/health problems/contributing factors were
attributed to the unfortunate deaths of the citizens which have already died from the virus.
I find it hard to believe the Health Department do not have documents relating to the
contributing factors in COVID-19 deaths - this would imply that The Health Department are
incompetent in regards to warning the public, which they are obligated to protect, as to which
demographic of citizens are most vulnerable to dying as a result of contraction.
With this in mind, i feel it is necessary to release ANY and ALL publicly available information
related to Covid-19 deaths so the public may aggregate and analyse the co-morbidity data
themselves, but I am understanding that this request may out of the scope of a FOI request to
this department.
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Yours sincerely,
J M
-----Original Message-----
Dear J M
Please find attached correspondence in relation to your FOI request to the Department of
Health.
Kind regards
THE
FOI Officer
(CTH)
UNDER
RELEASED 1982
FOI Unit – FOI and Legislation Support Section
BEEN HEALTH
ACT
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Legal and Assurance Division | Corporate Operations Group
Legal Advice and Legislation Branch
INFORMATION
OF
Australian Government Department of Health
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DEPARTMENT
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T: 02 6289 1666 | E: [2][Health request email]
THIS
BY
FREEDOM
GPO Box 9848, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
The Department of Health acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Australia and their
continued connection to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to all Elders past and
present.
If you receive this email in error, please delete it and contact the sender immediately.
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