Thank you for your email, which has been forwarded to the Department’s FOI
Team for their consideration. A member of the FOI Team will respond to
your email in the next couple of days.

Kind regards

FOI Coordinator

OFFICIAL

Dear Mr Foley

Freedom of Information Request – FOI 25-26/055

Thank you for your email to the Department of Finance (Finance) requesting
access to the following documents under the Freedom of Information Act
1982 (FOI Act):

….final advice, correspondence or clearances provided by Finance to the
ILSC (or the portfolio) about the disposal of the Ayers Rock Resort
business or related non‑financial property.

This includes the application of the Commonwealth Property Disposal Guide
(June 2024), RMG‑213 (Disposals and gifting of relevant property) and
relevant RMG‑500 series guidance under the PGPA framework (1 Jan 2014 –
present).

Please provide edited copies under s 22 where required. Public‑interest
charges waiver requested under s 29(5). If scope is broad, please start s
24AB consultation.

Request for agreement to extension of time

While we are processing your request at this stage it is unlikely that we
will be able to provide you with an outcome by the current due date of
Monday 13 October 2025 due to the need for consultation with multiple
relevant business areas within Finance, and external agencies in respect
of the documents in scope.

Section 15AA of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 provides that an
applicant can consent to an extension of time up to 30 calendar days.

Finance seeks your agreement to extend the processing period by 21 days
with a new due date Monday 3 November 2025.

If you agree, Finance will notify the Office of the Australian Information
Commissioner (OAIC) of the extension, which is part of Finance’s reporting
requirements.

We kindly ask that you reply by either:

o Consenting to an extension of time to 3 November 2025; or
o Consenting to an extension of time for a date less than that requested
by Finance; or
o Refusing to grant an extension of time.

We kindly seek your response by COB Monday 6 October 2025.

General FOI matters

Your request was received by Finance on 12 September 2025. The statutory
period for processing your request commences from the day after Finance
received your request and a decision is due on Monday 13 October 2025.
However, as set out above, we are seeking your agreement to an extension
of time to Monday 3 November 2025.

Liability to pay a charge

You will be notified of any charges in relation to your request as soon as
possible, before we process any requested documents or impose a final
charge.

Publication

As required by the FOI Act, any documents provided to you under the FOI
Act will be published on our [1]disclosure log, unless an exemption
applies or the documents are characterised as containing personal
information. Documents will be published the next working day after they
are released to you.

Policy to exclude junior officer contact details, signatures and mobile
phone numbers

Finance has adopted a policy to generally exclude from any documents
released under FOI, the names and contact details of junior staff (non-SES
officers) and staff employed under the Members of Parliament (Staff) Act
1984 (adviser level and below). Finance has also adopted a policy to
exclude signatures and mobile phone numbers from any documents released
under FOI (unless publicly available). Finance’s preference is to reach
agreement with FOI applicants to exclude these details from the scope of
the request. Where there is no objection, the names and contact details of
junior officers, as well as any signatures and mobile phone numbers
appearing in identified documents, will be redacted under section 22 of
the FOI Act on the basis that these details are irrelevant to the request.

Please contact the FOI Team on the below contact details if you wish to
discuss your request.

Kind regards

FOI Officer | Legal and Assurance Branch

Business Enabling Services

Department of Finance

A: One Canberra Avenue, Forrest ACT 2603

References

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Thank you for your email, which has been forwarded to the Department’s FOI
Team for their consideration. A member of the FOI Team will respond to
your email in the next couple of days.

Kind regards

FOI Coordinator