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Dear Rob Cawthorne

Acknowledgement of Freedom of Information Request No: LEX 80956

We refer to your request received by the Department of Climate Change,
Energy, the Environment and Water on 19 August 2025 for access to
documents under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act) made in the
following terms:

‘1 Please provide a copy of the non-compliance register, which was current
at the time the DCCEEW provided written answers and/or testimony to the
senate inquiry into greenwashing. Dates listed below.

22 April 2024

10 May 2024

24 May 2024

19 Mar 2025

We accept redactions as allowed under section 22 of the FOI Act. However,
noting that a similar request was made in which only the current version
non-conformance register was supplied, which has a pending decision on the
removing redactions, due on 27 August 2025. We request if redactions are
removed on the current non-conformance register that you apply the same
decision/consideration when providing the response to this request.’

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notices to. You have advised your electronic address is
[1][FOI #13512 email]. We will send all notices
and correspondence to this address.

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Disclosure log

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disclosure log on the department's website. Section 11C of the FOI Act
requires this publication, however it is subject to certain exceptions,
including where publication of personal, business, professional or
commercial information would be unreasonable.

Further assistance

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Kind regards

FOI Contact Officer

Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country, John Gorton Building, King Edward Terrace

(GPO Box 3090) Parkes ACT 2600 Australia

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Dear Rob Cawthorne

Please see attached correspondence from the Department of Climate Change,
Energy, the Environment and Water, in relation to your Freedom of
Information request, LEX 80956.

Kind regards

FOI Contact Officer

Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country, John Gorton Building, King Edward Terrace

(GPO Box 3090) Parkes ACT 2600 Australia

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Dear Rob Cawthorne

The document for LEX 80956 contains the subset of the information that
would have been available at the earlier dates requested by you. Please
refer to the ‘date received’ column to identify all entries prior to the
dates in your request.

We note that the internal compliance register was initially developed in
June 2024.

Kind regards,

FOI Contact Officer

Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country, John Gorton Building, King Edward Terrace

(GPO Box 3090) Parkes ACT 2600 Australia

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