Consultation meetings June 25th
FOI Team Leader
FOI Team
Legal and Investigations Group
C12MT1
GPO Box 9880
CANBERRA ACT 2601
Dear FOI Team Leader,
This is a request under the FOI Act for documents.
On your department's website, http://education.gov.au/public-universit..., you have an announcement about some budgetary changes. One section on the page heads "Changes to Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Programme". The next section heads "Consultation" wherein it says "Department of Education will be announcing details of consultations with institutions as part of planning for implementation of these new arrangements shortly".
An email from Department of Education to universities showed there was a talkfest consultation meeting(s) June 25th, morning and afternoon, in Canberra at the Department of Education. I request documents (details below) in regards to the
meeting.
Documents I request:
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I request a copy of each/any brochure or handout attendees got at the meeting sessions.
Thank you.
P. Gale (Mrs)
June 27th, 2014.
UNCLASSIFIED
Dear Mrs Gale
Please find attached correspondence in relation to your FOI request.
Regards,
Kirsten
Kirsten Burns
Senior Government Lawyer
Corporate & External Review Team | Child Care, Corporate & External Review Legal Branch Legal and Compliance Group Australian Government Department of Education Phone (02) 6121 5966 | Fax (02) 6276 7421
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From: P. Gale [mailto:[FOI #662 email]]
Sent: Friday, 27 June 2014 2:56 PM
To: Education - FOI
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Consultation meetings June 25th
FOI Team Leader
FOI Team
Legal and Investigations Group
C12MT1
GPO Box 9880
CANBERRA ACT 2601
Dear FOI Team Leader,
This is a request under the FOI Act for documents.
On your department's website, http://education.gov.au/public-universit..., you have an announcement about some budgetary changes. One section on the page heads "Changes to Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Programme". The next section heads "Consultation" wherein it says "Department of Education will be announcing details of consultations with institutions as part of planning for implementation of these new arrangements shortly".
An email from Department of Education to universities showed there was a talkfest consultation meeting(s) June 25th, morning and afternoon, in Canberra at the Department of Education. I request documents (details below) in regards to the meeting.
Documents I request:
--------------------------
I request a copy of each/any brochure or handout attendees got at the meeting sessions.
Thank you.
P. Gale (Mrs)
June 27th, 2014.
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To: The FOI Contact Officer
Department of Education
Dear FOI Officer,
In regards to the letter of today's date from Kirsten Burns and the documents about the consultation meetings, thank you.
P. Gale (Mrs)
July 4th, 2014.
P. Gale left an annotation ()
I figure this is as good as it gets. Only a week after my request the Department of Education has sent the documents. No time even for them to write me a vanilla acknowledgment.
Page 32 and further of the "Within Scope" document shows the Australian Government's thinking on how to share the page 8 figure of $690 million between universities.