Our reference: FOIREQ20/00220
Julie
By email
: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
Your freedom of information request - FOIREQ20/00220
Dear Julie
I refer to your request for access to documents made under the
Freedom of Information Act
1982 (Cth) (the FOI Act) and received by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
(OAIC) on 7 November 2020.
In your request you seek access to the fol owing:
“…copy of documents relating to the commissioning of external research by the OAIC
into Notice and Consent (limited to the external research report, if available, but if such
a report is not available then any other document within scope).”
Decision
I am an officer authorised under s 23(1) of the FOI Act to make decision in relation to FOI
requests.
I have identified 1 document within the scope of your request. I have decided to grant you
access to the document in ful . A schedule describing the document and access decision I have
made has also been provided with this decision.
Please see the following page for your review rights and information about the OAIC’s
disclosure log.
Yours sincerely
Joseph Gouvatsos
Lawyer
14 December 2020
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
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.
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.
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 60 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
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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 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 email to
xxxxx@xxxx.xxx.xx, or by fax on 02 9284 9666.
Disclosure log
Section 11C of the FOI Act requires agencies to publish documents released through an FOI
request on our website within 10 days of release, except if they contain personal or business
information that it would be unreasonable to publish.
I do not consider it would be unreasonable to publish this document. As a result, the
document wil be published on our
disclosure log shortly.
Accessing your information
If you would like access to the information that we hold about you, please
contact
xxxxx@xxxx.xxx.xx. More information is available on the
Access our information page
on our website.
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