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Good afternoon Mr Hollingworth

Thank you for your request submitted to the Attorney-General via the Right To Know platform.

We note that this request is identical to one you submitted to the Attorney-General's Department via the Right To Know platform. Can you please confirm whether you intended to submit the same request to both entities?

As these requests are duplicative and will render the same results (being documents provided by the department to the Attorney-General's Office), in the interest of administrative efficiency, we would be grateful if you would consider withdrawing one of the requests.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Freedom of Information & Privacy
Attorney-General’s Department
Phone: (02) 6141 6666 | Email: [email address]

-----Original Message-----
From: David Hollingworth <[FOI #13574 email]>
Sent: Wednesday, 3 September 2025 2:28 PM
To: AGD FOI Requests <[email address]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - AI bots potentially being used by foreign actors for FoI requests - AGOFOI25/410

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Dear Attorney-General,

I am looking for the following:

"Advice or briefing material provided by the Attorney-General's Department to the Attorney-General's Office in relation to the use of AI bots potentially being used by foreign actors to create an overload of anonymous or vexatious FOI requests."

Yours faithfully,

David Hollingworth
Jourrnalist

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Hi David

Thank you for your response. We understand that you intentionally made duplicate requests to the department and to the office and will proceed with processing both accordingly.

Kind regards

Freedom of Information & Privacy
Attorney-General’s Department
Phone: (02) 6141 6666 | Email: [email address]

-----Original Message-----
From: David Hollingworth <[FOI #13574 email]>
Sent: Wednesday, 3 September 2025 4:34 PM
To: AGD FOI Requests <[email address]>
Subject: RE: Freedom of Information request - AI bots potentially being used by foreign actors for FoI requests - AGOFOI25/410

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Dear AGD FOI Requests,
An employee of the OpenAustralia Foundation recommended I make a second submission, as "The ministers office is considered seperate from the department so you might want to make a request directly to her office".
Yours sincerely,

David Hollingworth

-----Original Message-----

Good afternoon Mr Hollingworth

Thank you for your request submitted to the Attorney-General via the Right To Know platform.

We note that this request is identical to one you submitted to the Attorney-General's Department via the Right To Know platform. Can you please confirm whether you intended to submit the same request to both entities?

As these requests are duplicative and will render the same results (being documents provided by the department to the Attorney-General's Office), in the interest of administrative efficiency, we would be grateful if you would consider withdrawing one of the requests.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Freedom of Information & Privacy
Attorney-General’s Department
Phone: (02) 6141 6666 | Email: [email address]

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