OFFICE OF THE HON CLARE O’NEIL MP
MINISTER FOR HOME AFFAIRS
MINISTER FOR CYBER SECURITY
In reply please quote:
FOI Request: MO22/11/00002
File Number:
ADF2022/359003
Dear Lucas Baird
Acknowledgement of Freedom of Information Access request
I refer to your correspondence received on 11 November 2022, seeking access to documents
held by the Office of the Minister for Home Affairs, under the
Freedom of Information Act 1982
(the FOI Act).
Scope of request
You have requested access to the following:
I request, under the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act, any and all written
communication between Optus and the Minister's office about its data breach in the
week starting September 19. I also request any minutes made of any phone
calls/meetings with representatives of Optus, and a log of said phone calls.
Your request was received on 11 November 2022 and has been allocated FOI request
reference MO22/11/00002. Please include your FOI request reference in all correspondence
with the Office of the Minister for Home Affairs and the Department of Home Affairs Freedom
of Information Section.
Timeframe for receiving your decision
The statutory timeframe for processing a request is 30 days from the date upon which your
application was received by the Office of the Minister for Home Affairs..
Your review rights in relation to your request are available on the website of the Office of the
Australian Information Commissi
oner here.
Duplicate documents
If the FOI decision-maker deems a document to be a duplicate, they wil not assess those
pages as part of your FOI request. This means that if a there is a decision to release the
document to you, you wil receive only one copy, even if multiple copies of that document
exists.
Publication of document
Where documents are released to you in response to your request, the Office of the Minister
for Home Affairs may be required to publish these documents within 10 working days in
accordance with section 11C of the FOI Act. Publication wil not be required where the
documents contain personal or business affairs information.
Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 Telephone: (02) 6277 7860 Facsimile: (02) 6273 4144
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Contacting the FOI Section
Should you wish to discuss your request you may contact the Department of Home Affairs,
Freedom of Information Section at xxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx.
Kind regards
The Office of the Minister for Home Affairs
xxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx