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obtain access to a document held by the OAIC pursuant to the Freedom of
Information Act 1982 (Cth) (FOI Act). We will only action and respond to
emails making FOI requests to the OAIC. For information on how to make an
FOI request to the OAIC, and to ensure that your request complies with the
requirements of the FOI Act, please refer to the FOI page on the OAIC’s
website at:
[1]https://www.oaic.gov.au/about-us/access-...
Once your request has been assessed by the OAIC, and registered on our
system, a separate acknowledgement email will be sent to you with a
reference number.

 

The OAIC does not hold all documents of other Commonwealth government
agencies, other state government agencies, or private organisations.

 

Accordingly:

1)      if you are seeking to access documents of a particular
Commonwealth agency, you will need to make your request directly to the
relevant agency. For example, if you are requesting a copy of your visa
records, please make an FOI request and send it to the Department of Home
Affairs.

2)      if you are seeking to access documents of a state or local
government agency, as each Australian state and territory also have
separate FOI legislation that governs information held by state government
agencies, please contact the relevant agency as to how to make an
application to access the documents. For example, if you are seeking
access to police report from NSW Police Force, it is governed by the
Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 (NSW) (GIPA Act), and you
will need to contact NSW police to find out how to make a GIPA application
for the police report.

3)      if you are seeking to access documents of a private organization,
which the FOI Act does not apply to, please contact the organization
directly to find out how to access the documents you are seeking. For
example, if you are seeking to access to hospital records or your medical
centre records, please contact these organisations directly. 

 

Enquiries and other matters

 

If your email relates to any of the following, please utilise our online
forms instead, which are available at
[2]https://www.oaic.gov.au/about-us/contact...

-               Enquiry

-               Privacy  Complaint

-               Notifiable Data Breach

-               Consumer Data Right Complaint

-               FOI Complaint

-               Freedom of Information Review

-               Agency FOI Extension of Time Requests

-               Speech requests.

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Our reference: FOIREQ23/00172

Dear Lynne Cathcart

Thank you for your email received by the Office of the Australian
Information Commissioner (OAIC) on 30 August 2023. I understand that you
are making a request for documents under the Freedom of Information Act
1982 (Cth) for access to the following documents:

I would like an unredacted full copy of the Uluru statement from the heart
for own interest

 

I am of the view that the OAIC does not hold the documents you are seeking
access to and that your request would be better directed to The Uluru
Statement from the Heart organisation.

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner

The OAIC regulates the [1]Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (the Privacy Act) and the
[2]Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cth) (the FOI Act). The OAIC has the
power to investigate [3]complaints about the alleged mishandling of
personal information by Australian and Norfolk Island government agencies
and many private sector organisations, as well as the power to [4]review
FOI decisions of Australian and Norfolk Island government agencies. We are
also responsible for handling privacy complaints about ACT public sector
agencies.

Each Australian state and territory also have separate FOI legislation
that governs information held by state government agencies.

The OAIC does not:

o have the function to provide information on matters not covered by the
Privacy Act or the FOI Act.
o hold records of other Commonwealth government agencies or private
organisations.

If you are seeking to access records of a particular agency or
organisation, you will need to make your request directly to the relevant
agency or organisation.

The OAIC only has the power to investigate alleged mishandling of personal
information by Commonwealth government agencies and privacy organisations
under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), and we are responsible to review FOI
decisions made by Commonwealth government agencies. This means, for
example, if someone makes a complaint about another Commonwealth agency or
private organisation under the Privacy Act that it breached their privacy,
the OAIC will then open up a file. That person who made the complaint can
then ask OAIC to provide that file to them. Or if someone makes a
complaint about the FOI decision made by another Commonwealth government
agency, the OAIC will then open up a file for that FOI review, which is on
our record.

We do not hold all records of government agencies of Australia. We do not
hold records of state government agencies because each Australian State,
has separate law about accessing state government agency documents.

I consider that your request would be more suited to The Uluru Statement
from the Heart organisation and recommend that you make your request to:

Uluru Statement from the Heart

Online:                                   [5]https://ulurustatement.org/

Next steps

As the OAIC does not hold the records you seek access to, I ask that you
please confirm by return email, that you agree to withdraw your request to
the OAIC by close of business Monday 4 September 2023. If I do not hear
from you by this date, we will take it that you withdraw your request and
close it on our system.

If you have any questions, please contact me at the details below.

Kind regards

[6][IMG]   Laura Moffat

Paralegal

Office of the Australian Information Commissioner

Sydney | GPO Box 5288 Sydney NSW 2001

E [7][OAIC request email]
 
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Australia and their continuing connection to land, waters and
communities. We pay our respect to First Nations people,
cultures and Elders past and present.  

 

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Our reference: FOIREQ23/00172

Dear Lynne Cathcart,

I refer to your request for access to documents under the Freedom of
Information Act 1982 (Cth) (the FOI Act) received on 30 August 2023.

In your request you seek access to the following:

I would like an unredacted full copy of the Uluru statement from the heart
for own interest

 

On 31 August 2023, I wrote to you to inform that the OAIC does not hold
the documents that you are seeking and gave you information about where
you may consider directing your request. I then advised that if you did
not confirm the withdrawal of your request by close of business 4
September 2023, the OAIC would treat your request as having been withdrawn
and close the request on our system.

Withdrawal of FOI request

As the OAIC has not received your confirmation as of 5 September 2023,
this FOI request is now closed.

If you have any questions, please contact me at the details below.

Kind regards

[1][IMG]   Laura Moffat

Paralegal

Office of the Australian Information Commissioner

Sydney | GPO Box 5288 Sydney NSW 2001

E [2][OAIC request email]
 
The OAIC acknowledges Traditional Custodians of Country across
Australia and their continuing connection to land, waters and
communities. We pay our respect to First Nations people,
cultures and Elders past and present.  

 

[3]Subscribe to Information Matters

 

 

 

Notice:

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be confidential information, and may also be the subject of legal
professional privilege. If you are not the intended recipient any use,
disclosure or copying of this email is unauthorised. If you received this
email in error, please notify the sender by contacting the department's
switchboard on 1300 488 064 during business hours (8:30am - 5pm Canberra
time) and delete all copies of this transmission together with any
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