Correspondence Regarding Lorraine Finlay's piece in The Nightly
Dear Australian Human Rights Commission,
This is a Freedom of Information Request for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act 1982.
I seek access to Correspondence between officials of the Australian Human Rights Commission relating to Lorraine Finlay's piece in The Nightly titled "Do not turn a blind eye to hate/In silence, anti-Semitism and racism flourishes", accessible here: https://thenightly.com.au/opinion/lorrai... (I note the title in the linked article here is different compared to the original published article in the Digitial Edition of The Nightly. For the purposes of this request, feel free to treat them identically)
Yours faithfully,
Alex Pentland
Dear Mr Pentland
I am the officer with carriage of your FOI request made on Thursday 28
March 2024.
Under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cth) (FOI Act), the Commission
has until Monday, 29 April 2024 to make a decision in relation to your
request.
If your request covers documents which contain personal information of
third parties and the Commission is required under the FOI Act to consult
prior to making a decision on the release of those documents, the
processing period will be extended a further 30 days. We will advise if
this is required.
We are processing your request and seek your clarification on the below:
1. In your request you seek ‘correspondence between
officials of the Australian Human Rights Commission’. On one view, that
could relate to any person working for the Commission. To assist in
directing our search for relevant documents, would you be agreeable to
refine your request to correspondence sent between relevant Commission
staff who were involved in preparing the piece and having it published (we
anticipate those staff members would include Commissioner Finlay, the
Human Rights team and the Communications team)?
2. Are you agreeable for the Commission to redact names and
personal details of non-SES Commission staff in the requested documents?
Information such as the names and contact details of non-SES staff that is
considered irrelevant to a request can be redacted under s 22 of the FOI
Act.
Please contact me if you have any queries.
Kind regards,
Jessica Tran
Senior Lawyer
Australian Human Rights Commission
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Dear Jessica Tran,
To answer the requestions for clarification:
1. Yes I agree to refine my request to correspondence sent between relevant Commission staff who were involved in preparing the piece
2. Yes I agree to redact such details.
Yours sincerely,
Alex Pentland