Request for submissions on the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act

Mark R. Diamond made this Freedom of Information request to Department of Finance

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Mark R. Diamond
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The FOI Coordinator
Legal Services Branch
Department of Finance
John Gorton Building
King Edward Terrace
PARKES ACT 2600

Dear FOI Coördinator

Re: Submissions in response to the recent PGPA Discussion Paper
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I request access to a copy of each submission made to the Department of Finance in response to call for submissions contained in the the document named, "Enhancing the Commonwealth Performance Framework – Discussion paper" (http://www.pmra.finance.gov.au/legislati...).

I note that on page of the discussion paper, it says that "all information ... contained in written responses will be made available to the public on the Finance website ..." I also note that despite the elapse of 6 weeks since the closure of the submission period, none of the submissions have been published.

I do NOT request access to the name and contact details of any individual. I do NOT request access to any submission provided to the Department of Finance on the understanding that it be kept confidential, nor to any part of an otherwise non-confidential submission that was requested to be kept confidential.

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

Yours faithfully,

Mark R. Diamond

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Freedom of Information

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Department of Finance

 

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Finance Australian Business Number (ABN): 61 970 632 495
Finance Web Site: www.finance.gov.au

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Hi Mark

The submissions that you are interested in are now publically available, https://cfar.govspace.gov.au/submissions/

I trust the above information adequately satisfies your request. Unless I hear from you, I will consider your FOI request as withdrawn.

Regards,

Chak

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark R. Diamond [mailto:[FOI #798 email]]
Sent: Wednesday, 12 November 2014 11:01 PM
To: FOI Requests
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Request for submissions on the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act

The FOI Coordinator
Legal Services Branch
Department of Finance
John Gorton Building
King Edward Terrace
PARKES ACT 2600

Dear FOI Coördinator

Re: Submissions in response to the recent PGPA Discussion Paper
----------------------------------------------------------------

I request access to a copy of each submission made to the Department of Finance in response to call for submissions contained in the the document named, "Enhancing the Commonwealth Performance Framework – Discussion paper" (http://www.pmra.finance.gov.au/legislati...).

I note that on page of the discussion paper, it says that "all information ... contained in written responses will be made available to the public on the Finance website ..." I also note that despite the elapse of 6 weeks since the closure of the submission period, none of the submissions have been published.

I do NOT request access to the name and contact details of any individual. I do NOT request access to any submission provided to the Department of Finance on the understanding that it be kept confidential, nor to any part of an otherwise non-confidential submission that was requested to be kept confidential.

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

Yours faithfully,

Mark R. Diamond

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Mark R. Diamond
Sent

The FOI Coordinator
Legal Services Branch
Department of Finance
John Gorton Building
King Edward Terrace
PARKES ACT 2600

Dear FOI Coördinator

Re: Submissions in response to the recent PGPA Discussion Paper
----------------------------------------------------------------

Thank you for your reply of today's date. I accept that my request for administrative access to the documents has been satisfied. Many thanks.

Yours faithfully,

Mark R. Diamond

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Thank you for your email to the Freedom of Information section of the
Department of Finance (Finance).  We have received your email and will
endeavour to respond to you as soon as possible.

 

You may view Finance’s Freedom of Information procedures and processes on
[1]http://www.finance.gov.au/foi/foi.html

 

Further information relating to Freedom of Information can be found on the
Office of the Australian Information Commissioner’s [2]website.

 

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Freedom of Information

Legal Services Branch

Department of Finance

 

________________________________

Finance Australian Business Number (ABN): 61 970 632 495
Finance Web Site: www.finance.gov.au

IMPORTANT:

This transmission is intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain confidential or legally privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use or dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited.
If you have received this transmission in error, please notify us immediately by telephone on 61-2-6215-2222 and delete all copies of this transmission together with any attachments.
If responding to this email, please send to the appropriate person using the suffix .gov.au.

________________________________

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Following on from a discussion with the Requester, I've uploaded a ZIP file of the documents from the website provided by the Department.

Regards,

Ben
Right to Know Volunteer

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Mark R. Diamond left an annotation ()

Thank you to Ben Fairless for having zipped the submissions and linked them to this request.

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