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Disclosure log 

From 1 May 2011 FaHCSIA is required by s11C of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act) to publish a disclosure log on the website. The disclosure log lists information which has been released in response to an FOI access request. The publication of such documents must be done within 10 working days of the applicant being given access to the document(s).

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  • 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.

Note: Information will be added to this register as it is released.

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Information that is not available on FaHCSIA's website may be obtained by foi@fahcsia.gov.au. A charge may be imposed to reimburse FaHCSIA for the cost incurred in copying or reproducing the information or sending it to you. There will be no charge for the time spent by FaHCSIA in processing the FOI request that led to this information being made available. You will be notified if any charge is payable and you will be required to pay the charge before the information is provided.

There may be documents in the disclosure log that are currently not available in html format. If you are unable to read the format provided please contact the FOI Coordinator at foi@fahcsia.gov.au. We will try to meet all reasonable requests for an alternate format of the document in a timely manner and at the lowest reasonable cost to you.

FOI
reference number		 Date of access FOI request Information published in the disclosure log
11/12-010 05/05/12 Access to ‘documents relating to a contract formed between FaHCSIA and a private contractor for work undertaken in preparation for the Government’s proposed gambling reforms’, identified as ‘FaHCSIA and Toneguzzo Group (AusTender reference CN358665)’. See attached pdf file:
  1. Document 1 [PDF 3.5MB]
  2. Document 2 [PDF 356KB]
  3. Document 3 [PDF 4.2MB]
  4. Document 4 [PDF 4.6MB]
  5. Document 5 [PDF 229KB]
  6. Document 6 [PDF 550KB]
  7. Document 7 [PDF 443KB]
  8. Document 7A [PDF 385KB]
  9. Document 8 [PDF 93KB]
  10. Document 9 [PDF 163KB]
  11. Document 10 [PDF 682KB]
  12. Document 11 [PDF 229KB]
  13. Document 12 [PDF 618KB]
  14. Document 13 [PDF 72KB]
  15. Document 14 [PDF 90KB]
  16. Document 15 [PDF 616KB]
  17. Document 16 [PDF 470KB]
  18. Document 17 [PDF 68KB]
  19. Document 18 [PDF 337KB]
  20. Document 19 [PDF 356KB]
  21. Document 20 [PDF 357kB]
  22. Document 21 [PDF 272KB]
  23. Document 22 [PDF 487KB]
  24. Document 23 [PDF 133KB]
  25. Document 24 [PDF 1.3MB]
  26. Document 25 [PDF 4.3MB]
  27. Document 26 [PDF 5.1MB]
  28. Document 27 [PDF 5.0MB]
  29. Document 28 [PDF 1.4MB]
  30. Document 29 [PDF 5.8MB]
  31. Document 30 [PDF 6.7MB]
  32. Document 31 [PDF 127KB]
  33. Document 32 [PDF 6.3MB]
  34. Document 33 [PDF 4.5MB]
  35. Document 34 [PDF 4.6MB]
  36. Document 35 [PDF 97KB]
  37. Document 36 [PDF 127KB]
  38. Document 37 [PDF 137KB]
  39. Document 38 [PDF 136KB]
  40. Document 39 [PDF 5.0MB]
  41. Document 40 [PDF 168KB]
  42. Document 41 [PDF 82KB]
  43. Document 42 [PDF 947MB]
  44. Document 43 [PDF 118KB]
  45. Document 44 [PDF 837KB]
 FOI decision:  
  • Parts of the documents not released contain material that is exempt under sections 47B (Commonwealth-State relations), 47F (personal privacy) and 47G (business information) of the FOI Act and/or irrelevant material (s22).
11/12-039 20/04/12 Access to: the consultancy report supplied by Cudex Pty Ltd trading as Newspoll entitled “research to assess public views in relation to Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians” contract number 403295 which commenced on 01/07/2011. See attached pdf file:
  1. Document 1 [PDF 516KB]
  2. Document 2 [PDF 726KB]
  3. Document 3 [PDF 2.2MB]
  4. Document 4 [PDF 2.2MB]
 FOI decision:  
  • Parts of documents 1 and 4 are exempt under section 45 of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (information obtained in confidence);;
  • Parts of document 4 are exempt under section 47F of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (personal privacy);
  • Documents 2 and 3 are released in full.
11/12-034 03/04/12 Access to documents concerning decisions about the management of the Aboriginals Benefit Account (ABA). See attached pdf file:
  1. Document 1 [PDF 516KB]
  2. Document 2 [PDF 726KB]
  3. Document 3 [PDF 2.2MB]
 FOI decision:
  • Parts of the documents not released contain material that is exempt under sections 47B (deliberative processes) and 47G (business) of the FOI Act and/or irrelevant material (s22)
11/12-032 10/02/12 Access to: an Allen Consulting report, listed as CN409808, on measures to reduce alcohol harm in the Northern Territory. See attached pdf file:
  1. Document 1 [PDF 7.5MB]
  FOI decision:
  • Parts of this document are exempt under section 47B of the FOI Act (Commonwealth-State relations).
11/12-006 25/11/11 Correspondence between the Coordinator General for Remote Indigenous Services and the secretary and Minister for FaHCSIA between 1/6/10 and 31/12/10. See attached pdf file:
  1. Document 5 [PDF 10.3MB]
FOI decision:
  • This document has been released to the FOI applicant in part. The parts not released are exempt under s47C of the FOI Act.

11/12-018

31/10/11

Access to the minutes of the Cairns and District Regional Council (ATSIC) meeting dated 11-13 June 2002, meeting number R45500402, Decision No 450/02.

See attached pdf file:

  1. Document 1 - ATSIC_CairnsRC
    Decision450_02_June2002     [PDF 70kB]

      

FOI decision:

  • This document has been released to the FOI applicant in full.

11/12-015 01/11/11 Access to documents received from Kathleen Skene of the Townsville Bulletin newspaper regarding Townsville Aboriginal and Islanders Health Services and/or members of the Akee/Ross/Tapim/Illin families, and any responses to Ms Skene. See attached pdf files:
  1. Document no. 1 [PDF 1.3MB]
  2. Document no. 2 [PDF 440kB]
  3. Document no. 3 [PDF 700kB]
  4. Document no. 4 [PDF 1.3MB]
  5. Document no. 5 [PDF 1.6MB]
FOI decision:
  • Parts of Documents 1-5 are removed under section 22 of the FOI Act as they are irrelevant material.
11/12-026 23/10/11 Copies  of FaHCSIA's current signed delegation/authorisation/permission for all powers to make decisions under the FOI Act and the last 5 signed delegations/authorisations/permissions since 2005

See attached pdf file: 

  1. Document nos. 1 to 7 [PDF 2.6MB]

FOI decision:

  • These documents have been released to the FOI applicant

10/11-063/4 (combined)

29/09/11

Documents about all advertising for reviews of FaHCSIA's National Secretariat Program (now known as the National Secretariat Service Delivery Strategy), communications with, and responses from, organisations about the reviews, the review processes and the outcome of each review.

FOI decision:

  • Parts of documents 1-4, 9 and 11-13 are removed under section 22 of the FOI Act as they are irrelevant material.
  • Parts of documents 1, 2, 5, 9, 10, 11 and 13 contain material that is exempt under section 47C of the FOI Act (deliberative processes).
  • Release all of documents 6, 7, 8, 14 and 15.

11/12-027

21/10/11

Number of corporate credit cards and the costs incurred by the departmentally issued credit cards for 2010/11

See attached pdf file:

  1. Document 1 [PDF 32kB]

FOI decision:

  • This document has been released to the FOI applicant in full.

11/12-014

23/09/11

Access to: any emails, letters and communications received by FaHCSIA from Gale Duell of Townsville QLD regarding Townsville Aboriginal and Islanders Health Services and/or any members of certain families from December 2010 until the current day. 

 

See attached pdf file:

  1. Document 1 [PDF 60kB]

FOI decision:

  • This document has been released to the FOI applicant in full.

10/11- 060

23 September 2011

Documents relating to the costs involved in researching and progressing mandatory pre-commitment for Australia's electronic gaming machines”.

Specifically, you requested “copies of documents relating to advice prepared by the Department provided to the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs concerning:

  1. the views of state and territory governments; and
  2. the implications of the reforms on taxation revenue

See attached pdf  files – Document Numbers 1 to 18

Parts of the documents not released contain material that is exempt under sections 34 (Cabinet), 47B (Commonwealth/State relations), 47C (deliberative processes) and/or irrelevant material (s22).

Document nos.19 to 21 are fully exempt and were not released.

 

10/11- 059

23 September 2011

Documents relating to the costs involved in researching and progressing the Government’s proposal to introduce mandatory pre-commitment”. Specifically, you requested copies of doc uments relating to advice prepared by the Department provided to the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs concerning:

  1. the costs of implementing the reforms; and
  2. the views of the industry.

See attached pdf  files:

Parts of the documents not released contain material that is exempt under sections 34 (Cabinet), 45 (confidential information), 47 (trade secrets and commercial information), 47C (deliberative processes), 47G (business information) and/or irrelevant material (s22).

Document nos. 10 to 14 are fully exempt and were not released.

Additional information regarding this request can be found elsewhere on this website.

10/11- 058 23/09/11 Copies of documents relating to the participation by Department officials in the Parliamentary Joint Select Committee's Inquiry into pre-commitment schemes, which concluded on 6 May 2011, including any briefing or speaking points prepared for officials, Minister in their appearance before the Committee and the total number of staff and approximate number of hours worked by staff in relation to the inquiry.

See attached files:

  1. Document No. 1 [PDF 116kB]
  2. Document No. 2 [PDF 462kB]
  3. Document No. 3 [PDF 736kB]
  4. Document No. 4 [PDF 450kB]
  5. Document No. 5 [PDF 160kB]
  6. Document No. 6 [PDF 1.2MB]
  7. Document No. 7 [PDF 1.8MB]
  8. Document No. 8 [PDF 483kB]
  9. Document No. 9 [PDF 735kB]
  10. Document No. 10 [PDF 408kB]
  11. Document No. 11 [PDF 770kB]
  12. Document No. 12 [PDF 936kB]
  13. Document No. 13 [PDF 367kB]
  14. Document No. 14 [PDF 2.9MB]
  15. Document No. 15 [PDF 2.4MB]
  16. Document No. 16 [PDF 1.8MB]
  17. Document No. 17 [PDF 695kB]
  18. Document No. 18 [PDF 407kB]
  19. Document No. 19 [PDF 512kB]
  20. Document No. 20 [PDF 153kB]
  21. Document No. 21 [PDF 4.9MB]
  22. Document No. 22 [PDF 472kB]
  23. Document No. 23 [PDF 340kB]
  24. Document No. 24 [PDF 345kB]
  25. Document No. 25 [PDF 186kB]
  26. Document No. 26 [PDF 105kB]
  27. Document No. 27 [PDF 385kB]
  28. Document No. 28 [PDF 215kB]
  29. Document No. 29 [PDF 635kB]
  30. Document No. 30 [PDF 480kB]
  31. Document No. 31 [PDF 1.1MB]
  32. Document No. 32 [PDF 131kB]

Parts of the documents not released contain material that is exempt under sections 47C (deliberative processes), 47 F(personal privacy), 47G (business information) and/or irrelevant material (s22).

Additional information regarding this request can be found elsewhere on this website.

10/11-053 24/08/11 Documents on the file “2010/06137 Business Development – Policy – Pathway to residency for New Zealanders who are non-protected special category visa (SCV) holders”

See attached pdf file:

  1. Documents Released [PDF 4.7MB]

Parts of the documents were not released contain material that is exempt under sections 47F (personal privacy), 47C (deliberative processes) and/or irrelevant material.

10/11-065 22/08/11 Access to all information and documents relating to representation for people with autism spectrum disorders among the Disability Peak Bodies recognised or supported by the Commonwealth Government

See attached files:

  1. Document No. 1 [PDF 2.2MB]
  2. Document No. 2 [PDF 395kB]
  3. Document No. 3 [PDF 856kB]
  4. Document No. 4 [PDF 916kB]
  5. Document No. 5 [PDF 761kB]
  6. Document No. 6 [PDF 574kB]
  7. Document No. 7 [PDF 754kB]
  8. Document No. 8 [PDF 3.7MB]

FOI decision:

  • Parts of documents 1, 2, 6 and 8 are removed under section 22 of the FOI Act as they are irrelevant material.
  • Release all of documents 3, 4, 5 and 7.
10/11-070 27/07/11

Data and information for:

  • a) total number and breakdown of people by federal electorate or suburb of people in receipt of a Child disability allowance for 0 to 16; and
  • b) total number of people in receipt of a disability support pension 16 and over; and
  • c) more prescriptive data on how different disabilities are assess and define.

See attached pdf file:

  1. Document 1 – Data by electorate PDF [107kB]
  2. Document 2 – Prescriptive information PDF [204kB]

The above two documents were released in full to the applicant.

11/12-004 22/07/11

Data in relation to expenditure on FaHCSIA's electricity usage for the 2010/11 Financial Year (office/commercial premises only)

See attached pdf file:

This document has been released to the FOI applicant.

10/11-015

14/07/11

Documents produced in the last 2 years containing information for senior management or the minister on:

  1. projections for the next (a) year (b) 5 years  on the number of Australians on (i) full or (ii) partial disability pensions and the costs associated with such projections.
  2. Data on the extent of potential fraud or actual fraud associated with disability pensions.
  3. Analysis, plans, assessments, options, possible changes to (a) lower the number of Australians receiving disability pensions and (b) lower or limit the Australians wrongly claiming or receiving disability pensions.

See attached pdf file:

  1. Document 3 [PDF 4MB]
  2. Document 4 [PDF 1MB]
  3. Document 5 [PDF 1MB]
  4. Document 7 [PDF 1MB]
  5. Document 9 [PDF 38kB]
  6. Document 12 [PDF 28kB]
  7. Document 15 [PDF 33kB]
  8. Document 16 [PDF 33kB]
  9. Document 17 [PDF 509kB]
  10. Document 18 [PDF 1MB]
  11. Document 19 [PDF 250kB]
  12. Document 21 [PDF 918kB]
  13. Document 22 [PDF 810kB]
  14. Document 24 [PDF 11MB]

FOI decision:

  • Documents 1, 6, 8, 10, 20, 23 and 25 and parts of documents 2, 7, 9, 11, 12 and 18 are exempt under section 34 of the FOI Act;
  • Document 14 and parts of documents 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 15-19 are exempt under section 47C of the FOI Act; and
  • Parts of documents 3-9, 11, 12, 17-19, 21-24 are removed under section 22 of the FOI Act as they are irrelevant material.

10/11-042

20/06/11

Documents that provided information regarding the authority to appoint a funding controller to Maralinga Tjartutja

See attached pdf file: PDF [700kB]

  1. Document Number 1 (Folios 1-2)
  2. Document Number 2 (Folios 3-6)
  3. Document Number 3 (Folios 7 – 115)

Parts of the above three documents have been released to the FOI applicant.  Parts that were not released to the applicant contained irrelevant material (section 22 of the FOI Act).

10/11-041

14/06/11

Access to information in relation to the Better Start Initiative, specifically why only a limited cohort was selected for the initiative and not other children with recognised developmental disabilities.  Specifically: 

  • Documents that reference this evidence, as well as a copy of the evidence
  • Briefings and submissions for the FAHCSIA executive, Ministers and Cabinet on this initiative (including any earlier versions)
  • Analysis of the costs involved in the program, including any early versions which may have suggested the program be extended to other children with disabilities.
  • Any reference to Williams Syndrome in relation to this initiative.

See attached pdf files:

  1. Document 1 [PDF 2MB]
  2. Document 2 [PDF 2MB]
  3. Document 3 [PDF 559kB]
  4. Document 4 [PDF 496kB]
  5. Document 5 [PDF 118kB]
  6. Document 6 [PDF 2MB]
  7. Document 7 [PDF 173kB]
  8. Document 8 [PDF 638kB]

FOI decision:  

  • Parts of document 1 are exempt under section 47B of the FOI Act;
  • Parts of documents 1-4 and 6-7 are exempt under section 47C of the FOI Act;
  • Parts of document 5 are exempt under section 47F of the FOI Act; and
  • Parts of documents 1-4 and 6-8 are removed under section 22 of the FOI Act as they are irrelevant material

10/11-057 (first stage and second stage )

13/06/11 (first stage)

24/06/11 (second stage

Data in relation to Income Management in the Northern Territory:

  • Total number of Centrelink customers participating in Income Management in the Northern Territory (excluding the Cape York trial) in April 2011.
  • Of those participating in Income Management, the percentages who:
    • are female;
    • identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander;
    • arrived in Australia after 1 January 2006
  • The percentages of each payment type being Income Managed.
  • The percentage of customers whose Income Management is compulsory.

 

See attached pdf and word files:

First stage

  1. Data Document RTF [30kB]
  2. Data document PDF [50kB]
Second Stage
  1. Data document PDF [55kB]
  2. Data document RTF [20kB]
This document has been released to the FOI applicant.

10/11- 051

10 June 2011

Total number of invoices processed by the Department in 2010 including the number and value of all accounts that remained unpaid for each of the following periods: 31-60 days, 61-90 days, 91-120 days and longer than 120 days, the total number and value of any penalty interest payments made by the Department for the 2010 period and details of the longest overdue and the largest amount of an unpaid invoice:

  • the value of those invoices;
  • the length of time those invoices remained unpaid;
  • whether there was any attached interest to those invoices;
  • what the invoices were for.

See attached pdf and word file:

  1. Data document; PDF [80kB]
  2. Data document: RTF [32kB]

This document has been released to the FOI applicant.

10/11- 033

3 June 2011

Departmental briefs and de-identified external correspondence to the Minister (Jenny Macklin) regarding allegations of child prostitution in the Northern Territory between 1 January 2011 and 28 February 2011, along with the latest departmental brief or assessment on policing numbers or services in the NT following on from the recommendations of the NTER review.

See attached pdf files:

Parts of these 2 documents have been released to the FOI applicant. Parts not released contain irrelevant information (section 22 of the FOI Act).

10/11- 028 Part 2

9 November 2011

Documents about Family Tax Benefit A & B between 1/7/09 & 30/6/10.

See attached pdf files:

FOI decision:

  • These documents have been released to the FOI applicant in part. The parts not released are exempt under s47C of the FOI Act and contain irrelevant material under s22 of the FOI Act

10/11- 028

25 May 2011

Documents since 1/7/10 relating to Family Tax Benefit B and A options

See attached pdf files:

Parts of these 2 documents have been released to the FOI applicant. Parts not released are exempt under section 47C(deliberative processes) or contain irrelevant information (section 22) of the FOI Act.

10/11- 034 4 May 2011 Report prepared by Open Mind Research Group arising from its developmental research for the Paid Parental Leave campaign

See attached pdf files

The 'Paid Parental Leave: Developmental Research Report' has been released in part to the FOI applicant. Parts not released (pages 16, 17, 21-23, 109, 110) are exempt under sections 47 (commercially valuable information) and 47G (business information) or contain irrelevant information (various pages - section 22) of the FOI Act. 

10/11 - 045 4 May 2011 FaHCSIA's P3M3 self-assessment and an external P3M3 consultant's review report.

See attached pdf file

The report 'P3M3 TM Assessment Report - Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 13 August 2010' has been released in full to the FOI applicant.

10/11 - 050 11 May 2011 Document setting out the current methods for choosing the members of the NLC

See attached pdf file

The document 'Instrument under the ALR(NT) Act dated 17 September 2001' has been released in full to the FOI applicant.

 

 
FOI
reference number		 Date of access FOI request Information published in the disclosure log
10/11-007 3/3/2011

FaHCSIA's online disclosure before 1 May 2011

Publication of the 2010 FaHCSIA's Incoming Government Brief (IGB) following release under the FOI Act.

FaHCSIA's 2010 Incoming Government Brief (IGB)

The decision maker decided to release the Incoming Government Brief subject to exemptions under the FOI Act, namely:

  • Section 33A (Commonwealth - State relations)
  • Section 34 (Cabinet documents)
  • Section 36 (Internal working documents)
  • Section 41 (Personal privacy)
  • Section 42 (Documents subject to legal professional privilege)
  • Section 43 (Business affairs)
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