Our reference: FOIREQ20/00176
Ms Janae Brown
Sent via email
to: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
Your Freedom of Information request FOIREQ20/00176
Dear Ms Brown
I refer to your request for access to information made under the Freedom of Information
Act 1982 (Cth) (the FOI Act), received by the Office of the Australian Information
Commissioner (OAIC) on 14 September 2020.
In your request you seek access to the following:
A document that contains the position titles of officers who were non-ongoing or
receiving high duties at any time in the last month
The job advertisement or expression of interest used to appoint officers in non-ongoing
positions or on higher duties.
Decision
I am an officer authorised under s 23(1) of the FOI Act to make decisions in relation to FOI
requests.
Relevant documents
I have identified six documents within the scope of your request based on the advice of the
OAIC’s Corporate Services Branch, the FOI Regulatory Group, the Regulatory and Strategy
Branch and Dispute Resolution Branch.
Document one provides position titles of officers who were non-ongoing or receiving higher
duties in the month preceding 14 September 2020. This document was created under s 17 of
the FOI Act.
Document six is the OAIC’s temporary employment register. This is available on the OAIC’s
website via this website address
: https://www.oaic.gov.au/about-us/join-our-team/.
I have decided to grant you access to the documents, with material that is irrelevant to the
scope of your request deleted under s 22.
1300 363 992
T +61 2 9284 9749 GPO Box 5218
www.oaic.gov.au
xxxxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx.xx
F +61 2 9284 9666 Sydney NSW 2001 ABN 85 249 230 937
A schedule describing the documents and access decision I have made has also been
provided with this decision.
Irrelevant material (s 22)
Subsection 22(1) of the FOI Act allows for the deletion of irrelevant material where it is
reasonably practicable to prepare a copy of the document modified by deletions, and the
modified copy would not disclose the irrelevant information.
Parts of documents 2, 3 and 4 contain information that is irrelevant and not within the scope
your request. This material can be described as:
• The name of the staff member who undertook search and retrieval for documents
relevant to your FOI request; the names of staff members who received the
expression of interest; and the name and personal information of a staff member
who resigned from the OAIC (Document 2)
• The names of staff members who received the expression of interest (Document 3)
• The name of the staff member who undertook search and retrieval for documents
relevant to your FOI request, and the group email address to which the expression of
interest was directed (Document 4).
Your review rights are outlined below.
Yours sincerely
Emma Liddle
Acting Principal Lawyer
14 October 2020
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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 30 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 usually 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, and the Information
Commissioner is satisfied that in the interests of administration of the Act it is desirable that
my decision be considered by the AAT, the Information Commissioner may decide not to
undertake an IC review.
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 reviews 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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Applications for IC review can be submitted online at:
https://forms.business.gov.au/smartforms/servlet/SmartForm.html?formCode=ICR_10
Alternatively, you can submit your application to:
Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
GPO Box 5218
SYDNEY NSW 2001
Or by em
ail to xxxxx@xxxx.xxx.xx, or by fax on 02 9284 9666.
Accessing your information
If you would like access to the information that we hold about you, please contact
xxx@xxxx.xxx.xx. More information is available on th
e 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 the documents contain personal or
business information that it would be unreasonable to publish.
The documents I have decided to release to you do not contain any personal or business
information that would be unreasonable to publish. As a result, the documents will be
published on our disclosure log.
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Schedule of documents – Freedom of information request no. FOIREQ20/00176
Document
Page no
Description
Decision on access
Exemption
no.
1.
1
Position titles of officers who were
Release in full
N/A
non-ongoing or receiving higher
duties in the month preceding 14
September 2020
2- 5
Expression of interest for Director,
Release in full, with irrelevant
N/A
2.
Assessments
material deleted under s 22
3.
6-7
Expression of interest for Director,
Release in full, with irrelevant
N/A
Privacy
material deleted under s 22
8-9
Expression of interest for Senior
Release in full, with irrelevant
N/A
4.
Review Advisor (Legal), Freedom of
material deleted under s 22
Information Regulatory Group
1300 363 992
T +61 2 9284 9749 GPO Box 5218
www.oaic.gov.au
xxxxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx.xx
F +61 2 9284 9666 Sydney NSW 2001 ABN 85 249 230 937
5.
10-55
Job advertisements and candidate
Release in full
N/A
information packs for various roles
N/A
2020 OAIC Temporary Employment
Release in full (publicly available)
N/A
6.
Register at:
https://www.oaic.gov.au/about-
us/join-our-team/.
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