Emails from Emma.davidson@act.gov.au regarding a complaint from a concerned Canberran about the Chief Minister.
Justin Warren made this Freedom of Information request to ACT Chief Minister, Treasury And Economic Development Directorate
Dear ACT Chief Minister, Treasury And Economic Development Directorate,
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2016 (ACT), I request access to the following documents:
1. All emails from Emma Davidson <[email address]> on the topic of an email from a concerned Canberran about the Chief Minister, sent between 12 Feb 2024 and 28 February 2024, inclusive.
2. All replies to the emails referred to in point 1.
3. Any and all subsequent replies to the emails from point 1 and 2 (i.e. the full email chain or thread).
To help clarify the topic concerned: the emails would have been sent regarding a written complaint received from a member of the public regarding the conduct of the then Chief Minister.
I request that the documents be provided electronically, as electronically searchable email documents in the .eml format (see, e.g. https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/offi...)
Yours faithfully,
Justin Warren
OFFICIAL: Sensitive - Personal Privacy
Good afternoon,
We refer to your freedom of information (FOI) request below, which has
been allocated reference number CMTEDDFOI 2026-021.
For a FOI request to be valid, we require more information from you to be
able to identify the information applied for.
Can you please provide us with some more details on what you are looking
for and some background context.
Section 30 of the Freedom of Information Act 2016 (the Act) states:
1. A person may apply for access to government information to the agency
or Minister responsible for the information.
(2) The application must include—
(a) enough detail to enable an agency or Minister to identify the
government information applied for;
Any additional context or background you can provide us, such as who or
what the emails were about, is required as your request is not very
specific for conducting searches. The information may also relate to other
Directorates, depending on the subject-matter of the emails, which will
also help with finding replies (if any). There has been more than one
person with that name in ACT Government. If you are requesting emails from
the former Member of the ACT Legislative Assembly, can you please confirm,
and provide some details on what you are looking for.
Additional information for you to consider in any rescope
If you already have a copy of any of emails in the correspondence chain,
you can provide copies by reply email. If your request is information not
held by CMTEDD, we may need to transfer you request to another Agency,
Directorate or Minister’s Office. Accordingly, you may also wish to
consider sending your request to that Directorate, etc. Further
information can be found by this link:
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Please note that the processing of your request is on hold pending a reply
to our email. We are assisting you under section 31 of the Act as your
request application is currently not in accordance with the requirements
of the Act. If we do not receive a reply by 28 April 2026, we need not
deal with your request further after that date.
If you would like to provide us with any other contact information, we can
contact you (for example a phone number or private email address) sent to
[2][email address] with subject reference CMTEDDFOI 2026-021.
If the emails were either about you, or if you are acting on behalf of
someone else as an agent, can you please let us know.
Kind regards
CMTEDD FOI Team
Phone: 02 6207 7754 |[3][email address]
Chief Minister, Treasury and Economic Development Directorate | ACT
Government
220 London Circuit, Canberra City | GPO Box 158 Canberra ACT 2601 |
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