Dear Commonwealth Ombudsman,

I refer to published submission 47 in relation to the Senate's inquiry into the quality of governance at Australian higher education providers.

The submissions were made by Professor Peter Tregear OAM, and can be accessed on the submissions page of the inquiry page.

In his submissions, Professor Tregear refers to manner in which a delegate of the Commonwealth Ombudsman terminated an investigation into the handling of a whistleblower disclosure by the Australian National University, even though it would appear that the Ombudsman's delegate appeared to agree that Professor Tregear had been denied procedural fairness by the ANU's PID investigators.

In her decision to terminate the investigation, the delegate noted that she requested, "on a number of occasions between April and August 2020", additional information from the ANU to assist in her investigation but that the ANU ignored her requests.

Under the FOI Act 1982 (Cth), I request access to each and every one of the delegates requests, issued to the ANU "on a number of occasions between April and August 2020", for further information from the ANU.

Yours faithfully,

Eilidh