Percentage of WA Parliament Members Fully Vaccinated for Covid 19
Dear WA Department of the Premier and Cabinet,
Requesting to view any documentation via FOI that advises of the number of WA parliament members fully vaccinated for Covid 19 at present (date 29/04/2022), fully vaccinated meaning having received a minimum of 2 doses. Can this number preferably be expressed as an overall percentage and/or as a number which also includes the total number of members regardless of vaccination status alongside as to gauge this from if available in such a format. Thank you.
Yours faithfully,
Aurora Gardens
Dear Ms Gardens
I refer to your below email regarding Members of Parliament.
Your correspondence cannot be accepted as a valid application under the
Freedom of Information Act 1992 (WA) (FOI Act).
Section 12 of the FOI Act states that for an FOI application to be valid,
the access application has to:
(a) be in writing;
(b) give enough information to enable the requested documents to be
identified;
(c) give an address in Australia to which notices under this Act can be
sent;
(d) give any other information or details required under the regulations;
(e) be lodged at an office of the agency with any application fee payable
under the regulations.
Until your application complies with section 12 of the FOI Act, it will
remain invalid will not be processed by the agency.
Payment of the $30 application fee can be made by visiting [1]here.
You may be interested to note that information concerning the nature of
your request has already been widely reported upon. Please see the
following, which should provide you the information you seek:
[2]WA COVID: Politician suspended from Western Australian Parliament for
not providing vaccination status (watoday.com.au)
[3]WA COVID: How many West Australian MPs have walked the walk and had the
COVID-19 vaccine? (watoday.com.au)
[4]Legalise Cannabis MP Sophia Moermond suspended from WA parliament over
vaccine mandate - ABC News
Kind regards
Department of the Premier and Cabinet