Number of comments about new website

Henare Degan made this Freedom of Information request to Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

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Dear Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet,

On the front page of your website it states, "PM&C has launched its new site! Tell us what you think." with a link to a contact form.

I'm looking for any document containing the number of responses you've received on this form about the new website. This could be contained in a report about the performance of the new website.

I'm not seeking the submissions themselves. The document would obviously have been created after the site launched so a search for documents can be restricted to only those created after the site launched.

Please treat this as a request for administrative access. If for
some reason the request cannot be dealt with in this way, please
treat it as a formal application under the Freedom of Information
Act.

Yours faithfully,

Henare Degan

FOI, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

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UNCLASSIFIED

FOI/2015/004

 

Dear Henare Degan

 

Thank you for your email dated 15 January 2015, 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:

 

On the front page of your website it states, "PM&C has launched its new
site! Tell us what you think." with a link to a contact form.

 

I'm looking for any document containing the number of responses you've
received on this form about the new website. This could be contained in a
report about the performance of the new website.

 

I'm not seeking the submissions themselves. The document would obviously
have been created after the site launched so a search for documents can be
restricted to only those created after the site launched.

 

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Regards

 

Adviser

Access and Administrative Review Section | Legal Policy Branch

Government Division | Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

p. 02 6271 5849

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FOI, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

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Good afternoon Henare Degan,

 

Please see attached a decision in relation to your FOI request with the
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet – reference: FOI/2015/004.

 

Regards

 

Adviser

Access and Administrative Review Section | Legal Policy Branch

Government Division | Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

p. 02 6271 5849

e. [1][email address]

[2]www.dpmc.gov.au | [3]www.indigenous.gov.au

PO Box 6500 CANBERRA ACT 2600

 

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Henare Degan left an annotation ()

In the response the department says, "...since the launch of the Department's new website on 19 December 2014 the Department has received 49 responses through the online feedback form, as at 23 January 2015."

Dear Adviser,

Thank you very much for providing the information I requested, particularly given it wasn't in a document, required by the Act.

Out of interest, can you tell me why my offer for requesting via administrative access was not taken up? It would seem to be very apt for this type request.

Yours sincerely,

Henare Degan

Alex Sadleir left an annotation ()

I found this "FOI Business Rules" document on the PM&C website recently. No pathway for administrative access there... https://www.dpmc.gov.au/sites/default/fi...