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The Treasury
2 December, 2022
FOi ref: FOi 3213
Dale Webster, Right To Know
By email: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
Dear Dale Webster
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST- CONSULTATION
I refer to your request, dated 15 November 2022 to the Treasury, for the following documents
under the
Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOi Act):
I request copies of all documents, including correspondence, held by Treasury pertaining
to the management of the Authorised deposit-taking institutions points of presence data
by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) from 2021 and 2022.
I am an authorised decision maker under section 23 of the FOi Act.
I am writing to tell you that I believe that the work involved in processing your request in its
current form would substantially and unreasonably divert the resources of this agency from its
other operations due to its size and broad scope. This is called a 'practical refusal reason'
under section 24AA of the FOi Act.
On this basis, I intend to refuse access to the dc;>cuments you have requested. However, you
have an opportunity to revise your request before I make a final decision. This is called a
'request consultation process' in section 24AB of the FOi Act.
You have
14 days to respond to this notice in one of the ways set out below.
Why I intend to refuse your request
I decided that a practical refusal reason exists because of the large number of documents
which have been identified in response to your request as currently worded. Key word
searches (including terms reasonably related to your request) of Treasury's email system and
electronic records have returned over 2800 emails plus attachments and over 220 additional
documents in the electronic filing system. These will need to be retrieved and reviewed for
relevance to the scope of your request. - -
Staff have spent over 10 hours undertaking an initial review of a sample set of 15% of
documents in the electronic filing system. Based on the sampling, I estimate there are over 80
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