APSC Style/brand/writing Guides
Dear Australian Public Service Commission,
This is a Freedom of Information Request for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act 1982.
I request access to the Style Guides/Brand Guides/Writing Guides currently used for the Australian Public Service Commission,
Given the upcoming holiday period for the APS (happy holidays to you reading this), I forecast my consent for any required 30 day extension to deal with the request at this time.
Yours faithfully,
Glenn Hamiltonshire
OFFICIAL
Good afternoon Mr Hamiltonshire
I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your request under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 for access to documents held by the Australian Public Service Commission (Commission).
Thank you for granting the Commission an extension of 30 days under section 15AA of the FOI Act. The due date for this request is now 11 February 2024.
This timeframe may be extended in certain circumstances. You will be notified if these circumstances arise and the timeframe is extended.
Kind regards
FOI OFFICER
Legal Services
Australian Public Service Commission
Level 4, B Block, Treasury Building, Parkes Place West, PARKES ACT 2600
GPO Box 3176 CANBERRA ACT 2601
This email and any attachments may contain confidential or legally privileged information, and neither are waived or lost if the email has been sent in error. If you have received this email in error, please delete it (including any copies) and notify the sender. Please consult with APSC Legal Services before using disclosing any part of this email or attachments to a third party.
-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Hamiltonshire <[FOI #12566 email]>
Sent: Friday, 13 December 2024 12:49 PM
To: FOI <[email address]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - APSC Style/brand/writing Guides
Dear Australian Public Service Commission, This is a Freedom of Information Request for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act 1982.
I request access to the Style Guides/Brand Guides/Writing Guides currently used for the Australian Public Service Commission,
Given the upcoming holiday period for the APS (happy holidays to you reading this), I forecast my consent for any required 30 day extension to deal with the request at this time.
Yours faithfully,
Glenn Hamiltonshire
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Dear Mr Hamiltonshire
We are writing to provide you an update on your FOI request and to consult
with you on our proposed next steps.
We have conducted the searches with the relevant business area within the
Commission. A majority of those documents are publicly available online.
In order to provide you copies of that publicly available information, the
business area advises it may be a substantial and unreasonable diversion
of resources to convert that information into PDFs in circumstances where
it is easily accessible online.
Given we have been able to identify all possible documents that meet the
terms of your FOI request, we ask whether you would agree to the
Commission providing you all readily available documents, including links
to all the publicly available information through an administrative
release (a process outside the FOI Act)?
It is our view that our proposed approach will provide you the information
sought in the most expeditious manner without further delay. If you agree
to an administrative release, we will consider your FOI request withdrawn
and look to release the documents to you administratively, noting that you
will not have appeal rights under the FOI Act. If you do not agree to an
administrative release, we will continue processing the request under the
FOI Act.
May we please seek your response by COB Wednesday 15 January 2025?
As always, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Kind regards,
FOI OFFICER
Legal Services
Australian Public Service Commission
Level 4, B Block, Treasury Building, Parkes Place West, PARKES ACT 2600
GPO Box 3176 CANBERRA ACT 2601
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-----Original Message-----
From: FOI <[email address]>
Sent: Friday, 13 December 2024 1:56 PM
To: Glenn Hamiltonshire <[FOI #12566 email]>
Cc: FOI <[email address]>
Subject: FOI - Acknowledgement - APSC Style/brand/writing Guides
[SEC=OFFICIAL]
OFFICIAL
Good afternoon Mr Hamiltonshire
I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your request under the Freedom of
Information Act 1982 for access to documents held by the Australian Public
Service Commission (Commission).
Thank you for granting the Commission an extension of 30 days under
section 15AA of the FOI Act. The due date for this request is now 11
February 2024.
This timeframe may be extended in certain circumstances. You will be
notified if these circumstances arise and the timeframe is extended.
Kind regards
FOI OFFICER
Legal Services
Australian Public Service Commission
Level 4, B Block, Treasury Building, Parkes Place West, PARKES ACT 2600
GPO Box 3176 CANBERRA ACT 2601
w: [5]www.apsc.gov.au
This email and any attachments may contain confidential or legally
privileged information, and neither are waived or lost if the email has
been sent in error. If you have received this email in error, please
delete it (including any copies) and notify the sender. Please consult
with APSC Legal Services before using disclosing any part of this email or
attachments to a third party.
-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Hamiltonshire
<[6][FOI #12566 email]>
Sent: Friday, 13 December 2024 12:49 PM
To: FOI <[7][email address]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - APSC Style/brand/writing Guides
Dear Australian Public Service Commission, This is a Freedom of
Information Request for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act
1982.
I request access to the Style Guides/Brand Guides/Writing Guides currently
used for the Australian Public Service Commission,
Given the upcoming holiday period for the APS (happy holidays to you
reading this), I forecast my consent for any required 30 day extension to
deal with the request at this time.
Yours faithfully,
Glenn Hamiltonshire
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[8][FOI #12566 email]
Is [9][APSC request email] the wrong address for Freedom of Information
requests to Australian Public Service Commission? If so, please contact us
using this form:
[10]https://www.righttoknow.org.au/change_re...
This request has been made by an individual using Right to Know. This
message and any reply that you make will be published on the internet.
More information on how Right to Know works can be found at:
[11]https://www.righttoknow.org.au/help/offi...
Please note that in some cases publication of requests and responses will
be delayed.
If you find this service useful as an FOI officer, please ask your web
manager to link to us from your organisation's FOI page.
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Dear FOI team,
Thank you for your reply.
I would welcome the release of these documents through administrative access. As such, and for the avoidance of doubt, I withdraw this FOI request to proceed with the AA process.
Yours sincerely,
Glenn Hamiltonshire
OFFICIAL
Dear Glenn
We refer to your correspondence dated 13 December 2024, seeking access to
style, brand and writing guides currently used by the Australian Public
Service Commission (APSC).
We have collated the below table, which includes links to the publicly
available resources, as well as attached relevant documents falling with
your request. We are releasing this information to your administratively,
outside of the FOI Act. Please let us know if there are any accessibility
issues.
Document Description
[1]Australian Government Style Basis for all writing guides used by the
Manual APSC.
[2]Create and verify PDF Guide used to check accessibility for PDF
accessibility documents.
[3]WebAIM - Colour contrast Web tool used to test colour contrast for
checker accessibility.
[4]W3 - Correct reading Website guide on how to set reading orders
orders for accessible documents
[5]Writing for government | UK UK Government | Digital resource website,
Gov access to writing for website guides,
accessible text, styles.
[6]Content and communications Government of South Australia | guide to
| Online Accessibility writing and publishing accessible
Toolkit documents.
[7]NSW Gov Sludge Toolkit Resource used for structured audits of
useful and unnecessary information on
websites. Designing so the important
content is easily found.
[8]Australian Government Guide on use of the Australian Government
Branding Guidelines Crest.
APSC Branded Elements APSC branded elements, including headers
(attached) and MS Teams Background.
APSC Creative Guide (attached) Original branding use guidelines for the
Commission’s current brand. The design
guide is being amended currently.
Accessible PDF document Internal document guide on making documents
(attached) accessible that will be published by the
APSC.
We hope this information meets your needs.
Kind regards
FOI OFFICER
Legal Services
Australian Public Service Commission
Level 4, B Block, Treasury Building, Parkes Place West, PARKES ACT 2600
GPO Box 3176 CANBERRA ACT 2601
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w: [10]www.apsc.gov.au
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privileged information, and neither are waived or lost if the email has
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delete it (including any copies) and notify the sender. Please consult
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attachments to a third party.
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that is confidential and may also be the subject of legal professional or
other privilege. If you are not the intended recipient of this message,
you
must not review, copy, disseminate or disclose its contents to any other
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5. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/content-desi...
6. https://www.accessibility.sa.gov.au/your...
7. https://www.nsw.gov.au/departments-and-a...
8. https://www.pmc.gov.au/resources/austral...
10. http://www.apsc.gov.au/
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