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 access30 May 2017
Reference numberFOI/2016/121
FOI request

Advice provided to the Prime Minister and/or other portfolio Ministers, or if not them, to the Secretary or his senior executives, by PM&C, providing a response to the letter the applicant wrote to the Prime Minister on 25 May 2015, concerning the acquisition of the Ayers Rock Resort by the Indigenous Land Corporation (ILC).

Information published in the disclosure log FOI/2016/121
Other informationReleased in part.
Date of publication09 June 2017
Date of access17 May 2017
Reference numberFOI/2017/024
FOI request

I request access to all correspondence dated 1 June 2016 to 2 February 2017 that mentions low-emission coal fired power station technology and/or ultra-super-critical technology and/or supercritical technology. I also request access to any correspondence that mentions the cost of retrofitting or building new coal fired power stations with improved technology between the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and the office of the Prime Minister.

Specifically, correspondence includes emails, briefings and minutes between the Department and the Minister's office. I also request access to internal departmental briefing documents and research that mentions the cost and/or process to upgrade or retrofit low-emission coal fired power station technology and/or ultra-super-critical technology and/or supercritical technology for the same period.

Information published in the disclosure log FOI/2017/024
Other informationReleased in part.
Date of publication30 May 2017
Date of access16 May 2017
Reference numberFOI/2016/161IR
FOI request

Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (“the Act”) I request the 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 [Julia 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/2016/161IR
Other informationReleased in part.
Date of publication30 May 2017
Date of access11 May 2017
Reference numberFOI/2017/082
FOI request

Copies of any correspondence, file notes or other material related to the meeting held between Mr Peter Rush (Assistant Secretary, Honours, Symbols and Territories Branch) and Mr David White (Somerset Herald) on or about 13 November 2014, other than the document supplied as Document 1 in Attachment A to FOI/2017/003.

Information published in the disclosure log FOI/2017/082
Other informationReleased in part.
Date of publication25 May 2017
Date of access26 April 2017
Reference numberFOI/2017/020
FOI request

documents such as ministerial briefings and attachments, reports and internal correspondence, relating to organ donations.

Information published in the disclosure log FOI/2017/020
Other informationReleased in full.
Date of publication03 May 2017
Date of access26 April 2017
Reference numberFOI/2017/056
FOI request

Every single Department policy and procedure concerning messaging apps used by Cabinet ministers and the Prime Minister, like WhatsApp, iMessage and Wickr, including policies and procedures on how the Department handles FOI requests for ministers’ communications through these apps.

Information published in the disclosure log FOI/2017/056
Other informationReleased in full.
Date of publication03 May 2017
Date of access18 April 2017
Reference numberFOI/2017/061
FOI request

All communications between officers of the Department relating to my previous FOI requests FOI/PMO/2016/041 and FOI/PMO/2017/005.

Information published in the disclosure log FOI/2017/061
Other informationReleased in part.
Date of publication03 May 2017
Date of access03 April 2017
Reference numberFOI/2017/003
FOI request

I seek access to copies of any correspondence or records of meetings in the possession of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (or Special Minister of State) relating to the heraldic prerogative of the Queen of Australia, or the heraldic prerogative of the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in relation to Australia, the College of Arms, the office the Lord Lyon, the Canadian Heraldic Authority or in any way relating to the exercise of heraldic power, jurisdiction or authority in Australia or in relation to Australians.

I am confining this request to documents in the period of 2011 to 2016.

Information published in the disclosure log FOI/2017/003
Other informationReleased in part.
Date of publication04 May 2017
Date of access03 March 2017
Reference numberFOI/2016/169
FOI request

File number: 2015/1983

File Name: Quantum Computing – briefs, correspondence, discussion papers – 2015 – (CPII)

Information published in the disclosure log FOI/2016/169
Other informationReleased in part.
Date of publication08 March 2017
Date of access03 March 2017
Reference numberFOI/2016/189
FOI request

Seek the yearly letters sent from the chair of the Prime Minister’s Indigenous Advisory Council (IAC) to the Prime Minister (as set out in the terms of reference) for 2013 – 2016?

Information published in the disclosure log FOI/2016/189
Other informationReleased in part.
Date of publication08 March 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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