OFFICIAL

Reference: FOI/2021/313

Dear Trav S

Thank you for your email dated 9 December 2021 received by the Department
of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (the Department), in which you made a
request to the Department under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (the
FOI Act) in the following terms:

In September this year I submitted an enquiry to your fraud department. 
The enquiry related to two incidents in which members of your department
may have failed to honour written agreements.  Today your department
replied and stated 'The Department has previously responded to your
concerns. No further correspondence will be provided.' Regrettably your
department has not provided a reasonable response to our concerns and the
reputation and integrity of the HOSM and it's associated processes is in
doubt.  In fact, your department appears to have studiously avoided
admitting and/or addressing these two incidents at all. 

Please accept our request for information in accordance with the FOI Act.

1.  Please provide a copy of all documents related to our fraud enquiry

Timeframe for receiving your decision

We received your request on 9 December 2021 and the 30 day statutory
period for processing your request commenced from the day after that date.
You should therefore expect a decision from us by 8 January 2022.

The period of 30 days may be extended in certain circumstances and we will
write to you separately regarding any extension of time.

Personal Information

The documents falling within the scope of your request above may contain
personal information, the Department will assess the release of this
information in accordance with the conditional exemption of s47F in the
FOI Act, where personal information may be conditionally exempt from
release. The Department will also consider the FOI Guidelines and in
particular that release to the public site of Right to Know is a release
to a wider audience [3.36 Part 3 of the FOI Guidelines].

The Department notes your instructions for the handling of personal
information as part of your previous request (reference: FOI/2021/266) and
any personal information identified will be redacted. If you think that
you might wish to receive access to your own personal information within
documents subject to an FOI request but do not wish for that information
to be conditionally exempt or become public, please contact us at
[1][DPMC request email] to provide an alternate address for the delivery of the
access decisions.

Charges

Agencies may decide that an applicant is liable to pay a charge in respect
of a request for access to documents. If the Department decides that you
are liable to pay a charge, we will send you a preliminary assessment of
the charge as soon as possible.

Publication of documents

Please note that information released under the FOI Act may later be
published online on our disclosure log at
https://www.pmc.gov.au/government/depart...,
subject to certain exceptions. If you think you might wish to raise any
objections to the publication of any of the information which may be
released to you please contact us by email at [DPMC request email].  If you do
wish to object to the publication of information, you would need to
provide supporting reasons.

Exclusion of officers’ names and contact details

For documents that fall within scope of the request, it is the
Department’s policy to withhold:

•             any person’s signature;

•             the names and contact details of Australian Public Service
officers not in the Senior Executive Service (SES);

•             the mobile or direct numbers of SES officers;

•             the names and contact details of Ministerial staff at a
level below Chief of Staff.

The names and other details of SES officers will not be withheld unless
there is some reason for that information to be exempt from release. If
you require signatures, the names and contact details of non-SES officers
or Ministerial staff below the level of Chief of Staff, or the mobile or
direct numbers of SES officers please let us know at [DPMC request email] so the
decision-maker may consider; otherwise we will take it that you agree to
that information being excluded from the scope of your request (that is,
the information will be treated as irrelevant and redacted from any
documents for release).

We will write again when the Department has more information.  Further
information on FOI processing can be found at the website of the Office of
the Australian Information Commissioner
https://www.oaic.gov.au/freedom-of-infor....

Yours sincerely

Adviser | FOI Section[]

Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

p. (02) 6271 5849

Ngunnawal Country, One National Circuit  Barton  ACT  2600  |  PO Box
6500  CANBERRA  ACT  2600
e. [2][email address]  w. [3]pmc.gov.au

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Department
acknowledges
and pays
respect to
the past,
present and
emerging
Elders and
Traditional
Custodians
of Country,
and the
continuation
of cultural,
spiritual
and
educational
practices of
Aboriginal
and Torres
Strait
Islander
peoples.

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OFFICIAL

FOI/2021/313

Dear Trav S

Please find attached the decision regarding your request under the Freedom
of Information Act 1982.

Yours sincerely

Adviser | FOI Section[]

Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

p. (02) 6271 5849

Ngunnawal Country, One National Circuit  Barton  ACT  2600  |  PO Box
6500  CANBERRA  ACT  2600
e. [1][email address]  w. [2]pmc.gov.au

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[5]cid:image003.jpg@01D78E24.FF2DAFB0 The
Department
acknowledges
and pays
respect to
the past,
present and
emerging
Elders and
Traditional
Custodians
of Country,
and the
continuation
of cultural,
spiritual
and
educational
practices of
Aboriginal
and Torres
Strait
Islander
peoples.

______________________________________________________________________ 
IMPORTANT: This message, and any attachments to it, contains information 
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 
party or take action in reliance of any material contained within it. If
you 
have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately
by 
return email informing them of the mistake and delete all copies of the 
message from your computer system. 
______________________________________________________________________

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