FOI disclosure logs

Our freedom of information (FOI) disclosure log provides access to information released in response to a request for an FOI access to documents.

PM&C publishes information released under section 11A of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act). Information on how to make a FOI request is available.

The disclosure log requirement does not apply to:

  • personal information about any person if publication of that information would be ‘unreasonable’
  • information about the business, commercial, financial or professional affairs of any person if publication of that information would be ‘unreasonable’
  • other information covered by a determination made by the Australian Information Commissioner if publication of that information would be ‘unreasonable’
  • any information if it is not reasonably practicable to publish the information because of the extent of modifications that would need to be made to delete the information listed in the above dot points.

Deletions have been made to the documents in accordance with the exemptions available under the FOI Act.

Date of access23 December 2016
Reference numberFOI/2016/147
FOI request

Copies of all documents to and/or from PMC to any third party that relates to the 2016 findings of the UN working group on arbitrary detention in relation to Julian Assange.

Information published in the disclosure log FOI/2016/147
Other informationReleased in part.
Date of publication10 January 2017
Date of access22 December 2016
Reference numberFOI/2016/161
FOI request

Documents relating to the detention of four-member ICC delegation which traveled to the Libyan city of Zintan in June 2012.

Specifically, I request:

  • Any memoranda or other documents drawn up about the detention for the [attention] of then-Prime Minister [Julia Gillard].
  • Any emails, text messages or other communications exchanged between the [Gillard], then-Foreign Minister Bob Carr, or then-ambassador designate David Ritchie and their respective offices about the case.
  • Any communications between the International Criminal Court and the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet about the case.

The timeframe of this FOI request is between June 7, 2012 and July 7, 2012.

Information published in the disclosure log FOI/2016/161
Other informationReleased in part.
Date of publication10 January 2017
Date of access16 December 2016
Reference numberFOI/2016/195
FOI request
  1. Analysis of the number and quantum of breaches applied to participants under the CDP scheme prepared by PMC and referred to by the Minister for Indigenous Affairs in media reports on 5th December 2016. 
  2. Briefings prepared by PM&C in 2016 for the Minister for Indigenous Affairs in relation to the costs for which PM&C is liable which arise from the administration, by DHS, of the jobseeker compliance framework (including comprehensive Compliance Assessments) as it applies to CDP scheme participants, over the 2015/16 financial year, including any comparisons with previous years. 

Note: Release in part regarding 1st  part of the request; Refuse access regarding 2nd part of the request.

Information published in the disclosure log FOI/2016/195
Other informationReleased in part.
Date of publication10 January 2017
Date of access15 December 2016
Reference numberFOI/2016/184
FOI request

A copy of internal correspondence or briefings between senior staff at the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet regarding potential reforms to, or concerns about Australia's freedom of information laws.

Information published in the disclosure log FOI/2016/184
Other informationReleased in part.
Date of publication10 January 2017
Date of access14 December 2016
Reference numberFOI/2016/197
FOI request

All documentation regarding any sorry business, mourning, funeral and/or business closure conducted in Doomadgee during the period 9 to 20 November 2012 inclusive, including but not limited to memorandum; correspondence, including correspondence to any personas or third parties advising as to the participation of sorry business, mourning, funeral and/or business closure; notices; articles; emails; file notes; records of discussion; minutes of meeting; reports ; statements etc

Information published in the disclosure log FOI/2016/197
Other informationReleased in part.
Date of publication10 January 2017
Date of access18 November 2016
Reference numberFOI/2016/170
FOI request
  1. Copies of all menus (including drinks) for official functions hosted by the Prime Minister;
  2. The cost to the department of those functions;
  3. The invite lists for those functions;

for the period between March 15, 2016 and September 15, 2016.

Information published in the disclosure log FOI/2016/170
Other informationReleased in full.
Date of publication12 December 2016
Date of access17 November 2016
Reference numberFOI/2016/144
FOI request

Potential and/or actual failure of the 2016 Census website.

Information published in the disclosure log FOI/2016/144
Other informationReleased in part.
Date of publication28 November 2016
Date of access16 November 2016
Reference numberFOI/2016/111
FOI request

1. The signed agreement between the government and community organisations/parties in Kununurra and Wyndham approving the Cashless Debit Card Trial (Social Security Legislation Amendment (Debit Card Trial) Bill 2015) and any related funding for services tied to the trial.

...

3. A copy of the consultation report PM&C/ and all or records and results of consultations carried out before the trial in any communities within the Shire of Halls Creek the relating to the Cashless Debit Card Trial. 

Information published in the disclosure log FOI/2016/111 Documents for part one , FOI/2016/111 Documents for part three
Other informationReleased in part.
Date of publication28 November 2016
Date of access14 November 2016
Reference numberFOI/2016/175
FOI request

Data regarding non-compliance of participants of CDP (breaching rates) for Western Australia as a whole namely the non-compliance data in the full time frame of both RJCP and now CDP (since it came into effect) for Western Australia.

Information published in the disclosure log FOI/2016/175
Other informationReleased in full.
Date of publication23 February 2017
Date of access04 November 2016
Reference numberFOI/2016/127
FOI request

Any ministerial briefs, options papers, or talking points created between January 1, 2016 and today regarding the Indigenous Rangers program.

Information published in the disclosure log FOI/2016/127
Other informationReleased in part.
Date of publication10 January 2017
  1. This column provides the date that the FOI applicant was given access to a document under s 11A.
  2. This column provides a short summary of the FOI access request.
  3. This column provides a short summary of the information provided under s 11A.

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