Our reference: FOIREQ22/00111
Taylor K
By email: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
Your Freedom of Information Request – FOIREQ22/00111
Dear Taylor K
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 24 April 2022.
In your email you seek access to the following:
I request a document with the following information under the FOI Act:
- the number of staff recruited by the OAIC between 1 April 2021 - 31 March 2022
(including temporary and staff under contract)
- the number of staff who ended their employment with the OAIC between 1
April 2021 - 31 March 2022 (including temporary and staff under contract)
- a current list, at the date this request is received by the OAIC, of positions held
by non-ongoing staff and the period the position has been fil ed by non-ongoing
staff
Decision
I am an officer authorised under s 23(1) of the FOI Act to make decisions in relation to
FOI requests.
I have identified one document within the scope of your request. The document was
created under s 17 of the FOI Act and it contains information collected by a staff
member of the OAIC People and Culture team in response to your FOI request.
I have decided to grant you access to the document in full. The document is
enclosed.
1300 363 992
T +61 2 9284 9749
GPO Box 5218
www.oaic.gov.au
oaic.gov.au/enquiry
F +61 2 9284 9666
Sydney NSW 2001
ABN 85 249 230 937
Please see the following page for information about your review rights and
information about the OAIC disclosure log.
Yours sincerely
Angela Wong
Lawyer
9 May 2022
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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.
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 t
o 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 my decision be considered by the AAT, the Information
Commissioner may decide not to undertake an IC review.
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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_
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Alternatively, you can submit your application to:
Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
GPO Box 5218
SYDNEY NSW 2001
Or by email t
o 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
xxxxx@xxxx.xxx.xx. More information is available on the 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 they contain personal or
business information that would be unreasonable to publish.
The document I have decided to release to you does not contain business or
personal information that would be unreasonable to publish. As a result, the
document will be published on our disclosure log.
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Document Outline
