Dear Dr Kellett,

 

FOI ref: 38505

 

On 6 October you submitted a request to the Department via FOI, seeking the following:

 

“…copies of the minutes of the Ex-Service Organization Round Table (ESORT) for meeting dates:

* 2August 2012;

* 27 March 2013;

* 14 May 2013; and

* 14 November 2013.”

 

Ordinarily, these documents would be available on the Department’s website, however as you discovered, the links to these particular documents were damaged during a website migration. The hyperlinks have since been restored, ensuring that the documents are once again available to the public for access.

 

On 21 October 2020, direct hyperlinks to these documents were provided to you administratively, via email. As I did not receive confirmation regarding withdrawal of your FOI request, I am required to provide you with a formal Decision and Statement of Reasons in order to complete the FOI process.

 

Please find my Decision and Statement of Reasons attached.

 

I wish you all the best with your research, and if you have any questions or concerns please don’t hesitate to contact me.

 

Kind regards,

Jess

 

Jess (position number 62227602)

Information Access Officer

Information Law Section

Legal Services and Audit Branch

Department of Veterans’ Affairs

t 1800 555 254 | e [email address] | www.dva.gov.au

p GPO Box 9998, Canberra ACT 2601

cid:image001.png@01D0027A.1DAB84F0

P Please consider the environment before printing this email

IMPORTANT: This document contains legal advice and may be subject to legal professional privilege. Unless it is waived or lost, legal professional privilege is a rule of law that, in part, provides that the client need not disclose confidential communications between a legal practitioner and client. To keep this privilege, the purpose and content of this advice must only be disclosed to persons who have a need to know and on the basis that those persons also keep it confidential.

You should consider this advice and take it into account when forming a decision on how best to proceed. If you decide to adopt a position that does not align with this advice, you should not state that DVA Legal Services & Audit Branch has cleared or endorsed a particular position.

 

IMPORTANT
1. Before opening any attachments, please check for viruses.
2. This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential information
for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient,
please contact the sender and delete all copies of this email.
3. Any views expressed in this e-mail are those of the sender and are not
a statement of Australian Government Policy unless otherwise stated.
4. Electronic addresses published in this email are not conspicuous publications and DVA does not consent to the receipt of commercial electronic messages.
5. To unsubscribe from emails from the Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA) please go to
http://www.dva.gov.au/contact_us/Pages/feedback.aspx
, and advise which mailing list you would like to unsubscribe from.
6. Finally, please do not remove this notice.