ABC Insiders
Dear Australian Broadcasting Corporation,
Consistent with provisions under the Freedom of Information Act 1982, I am requesting access to the following documents:
1. All documents, in any format (including but not limited to text messaging services, emails or notes, etc.) held by Justin Stevens, Brett Farrell, or Gavin Fang, from 9 November to 12 November referencing ‘Downfall: The last days of President Trump’.
To assist the ABC in more promptly processing the request, I do not require duplicates of documents, duplicate email chains or publicly available documents.
In order to protect the personal information of staff, I do not require the contact information of staff referred to any of the documents.
Yours faithfully,
Kim Knight
ABC FOI 202526-074
Good evening Mr Knight
The ABC notes you sent 2 emails to the ABC FOI team on 13 November 2025 at 3.40pm and 3.41pm Sydney time*. These requests concern an episode of Four Corners and will be treated as a single request.
Section 24(2) of the Commonwealth FOI Act provides that agencies may treat 2 or more requests as a single request when the request relates to the same documents, including those where the subject matter is substantially similar.
You may wish to withdraw the below email request about Four Corners (mistakenly labelled as concerning Insiders) as we will be corresponding via the email sent at 3.41pm on 13 November 2025 only with such correspondence addressing both parts of the scope. This is procedurally simpler as one decision letter will be issued covering the 2 emailed scopes as they constitute a single request under the FOI Act.
The reason we suggest you may wish to update Right to Know that you have withdrawn 1 of the 2 emails about is that it would otherwise appear on the website to not be processed when that is not the case as the two email requests are being processed as one file under the FOI Act. It would also clarify the mistaken reference below to Insiders (below) when you are seeking documents about ‘Downfall: The last days of President Trump’ which was on Four Corners.
We note a further 3 emails were received from you within that same half an hour (on 13 November 2025) which we have opened as a separate but single request (FOI 071 as advised earlier today).
Many thanks
ABC FOI team
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kim Knight <[FOI #14002 email]>
Sent: Thursday, 13 November 2025 3:40 PM
To: FOI ABC <[ABC request email]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - ABC Insiders
Dear Australian Broadcasting Corporation,
Consistent with provisions under the Freedom of Information Act 1982, I am requesting access to the following documents:
1. All documents, in any format (including but not limited to text messaging services, emails or notes, etc.) held by Justin Stevens, Brett Farrell, or Gavin Fang, from 9 November to 12 November referencing ‘Downfall: The last days of President Trump’.
To assist the ABC in more promptly processing the request, I do not require duplicates of documents, duplicate email chains or publicly available documents.
In order to protect the personal information of staff, I do not require the contact information of staff referred to any of the documents.
Yours faithfully,
Kim Knight
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