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Description and dates of documents released under Freedom of Information

Reference number Date of access Request Info published Decision maker
FOI19/207 04/11/2019 1. A list of members to a board or committee (if any board or committee existed) for review of the Final Report volumes of the Royal Commission.

2. A list of members to a board or committee (if any board or committee existed) for review of the following research papers:

a. Scoping study for research into the prevalence of child abuse in Australia

b. The role of organisational culture in child sexual abuse in institutional contexts

c. Life journeys of victim/survivors of child sexual abuse in institutions: An analysis of Royal Commission private sessions

d. Creating child safe institutions

e. Help-seeking needs and gaps for preventing child sexual abuse

f. Analysis of claims of child sexual abuse made with respect to Catholic Church institutions in Australia

g. The use and effectiveness of restorative justice in criminal justice systems following child sexual abuse or comparable harms

h. Capturing practice knowledge from the Royal Commission support model 		Eight documents released in full.  Department
FOI19/209 04/11/2019 A list of all those appointed as a Professorial Fellow to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. One document released in full.  Department
FOI19/229 01/11/2019 Information held by the Attorney-General’s Department about security contact reports filed by its public servants.

On Tuesday September 17 2019, I contacted the Attorney-General’s Department media team and enquired about the number of security contact reports filed over certain periods of time. I received a response from the media team on Friday September 20 2019.

I am requesting:

1. Any communications from the Attorney-General’s Department between 17 September 2019 and 20 September 2019 arising from my ABC enquiry and relating to “contact reporting”, “security contact reports”, “soft power”, “foreign interference”, “espionage”

2. Any communications from Attorney-General’s Department secretary Chris Moraitis in 2019 about “contact reporting ”, “security contact reports”, “soft power”, “foreign interference”, “espionage”

3. The number of security contact reports filed by Attorney-General’s Department employees in 2019

4. Any briefings or submissions created about security contact reports since 2019

5. The number of security contact reports filed by Attorney-General’s Department employees in 2018

6. The number of security contact reports filed by Attorney-General’s Department employees in 2013

7. The number of Attorney-General’s Department employees who filed security contact reports in 2019, and who also held top secret security clearance 		Six documents release in full and 15 documents released in part, seven documents exempt in full. Department
FOI19/243 01/11/2019 The names of the editors of volumes 2, 3, 9, 12, and 16 of the Final Report of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. One document released in full. Department
FOI19/203 28/10/2019 1. Documents which show the following regarding Dr Marie Keenan (in her advisory capacity to the Australian Royal Commission into the abuse of children for reviews of the literature): the nature of her advisory capacity, whether paid by the Commission, and if so how much, whether she was a member of a specific board for reviews of the literature and what literature she reviewed.

2. Whatever documents are needed to give a list of all people were board members for literature reviews, or engaged in any other capacity to review literature. 		Three documents released in full. One document released in part. Department
FOI19/224 25/10/2019 Any letters by the Attorney-General or the Attorney-General’s department to the Prime Minister regarding the addition of accommodation issues affecting temporary migrant workers to the schedule of a meeting of the Council of Australian Governments sent in the past 18 months.

Any emails between the Attorney-General’s department and the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet regarding the addition of accommodation issues affecting temporary migrant workers to the schedule of any meeting of the Council of Australian Governments sent in the past 18 months. 		Three documents released in part. Department
FOI19/242 25/10/2019 Any documents that were tabled or notes kept surrounding the treatment by Dr Wettenhall of patients from the 1960’s – 1980’s. One document released in full. Department
FOI19/196 21/10/2019 File 18/7275 OCL - Proposed protocol re: investigatory powers and parliamentary privilege Five documents released in full, seven documents released in part and two documents exempt in full. Department
FOI19/221 21/10/2019 All emails or letters created or received between consulted parties when processing Requests FOI19/158 and FOI19/159. Three documents released in full and 16 documents released in part. Department
FOI19/195 16/10/2019 Any correspondence between the department and Facebook, Twitter or Google/YouTube regarding the Criminal Code Amendment (Sharing of Abhorrent Violent Material) Bill 2019 or Criminal Code Amendment (Sharing of Abhorrent Violent Material) Act 2019. 11 documents released in full and eight documents released in part. Department
FOI19/187 15/10/2019 File 18/1079 CLU - ILU - Consumer Data Right / Open Banking - privacy - 2018 Five documents released in full, 11 documents released in part and 19 documents exempt in full. Department
FOI19/190 15/10/2019 File 18/4230 Elder Abuse Question Time briefs - Family Safety Branch 19 documents released in full and one document released in part. Department
FOI19/121 14/10/2019 The documents I seek is the Blue Book or Departmental brief provided to the new Minister for Industrial Relations, Christian Porter. My application only relates to the IR portfolio. I note that the Minister said today in an interview with Sky News that he just been provided with the briefs. Three documents released in part and one document released in full. Department
FOI19/181 14/10/2019 File 18/3382 Marriage Regulations 2017 – considerations of future amendments excluding (a) the names of any non-Senior Executive Service officers and (b) duplicate documents. Three documents released in full, 16 documents released in part and 16 documents exempt in full. Department
FOI19/182 14/10/2019 File 18/459 CTALB- Incoming Attorney-General Submission- Judicial appointments process- Administrative Appeals Tribunal appointments process, excluding (a) the names of any non-Senior Executive Service officers and (b) duplicate documents. Two documents released in full, four documents released in part and one duplicate document exempt in full. Department
FOI19/183 14/10/2019 File 18/1832 Automated Decision Making, excluding (a) the names of any non-Senior Executive Service officers and (b) duplicate documents. 29 documents released in full, one document released in part, and 6 documents exempt in full. Department
FOI19/202 11/10/2019 1. A copy of the report by RMIT commissioned by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse

2. A list of the people who were members of the expert advisory committee for the report. 		Two documents released in full. Department
FOI19/213 10/10/2019 In regards to the line:

“Some limited further information has been redacted on other grounds”

On this webpage: https://financialservices.royalcommission.gov.au/Submissions/Pages/Submissions-in-response-to-initial-request.aspx

I request that the selective information that has been redacted "on other grounds" to be provided.

In the case where this is not possible, please provide specific reasons why this information is being withheld. 		One document released in part. Department
FOI19/174 02/10/2019 Documents that tally the total payment of fees, including legal costs, involved in the use of a Special Purpose Liquidator examining matters associated with the failure of Queensland Nickel in 2016.

This includes any legal or expert fees paid by the Commonwealth in association with legal matters related to Queensland Nickel, or paid to the SPL for the purposes of the SPL then paying for legal or expert fees.

This includes but is not exclusive to actions by the SPL to recoup Commonwealth money allocated under the Fair Entitlements Guarantee to workers who lost their jobs following the liquidation of Queensland Nickel.

For the purposes of narrowing the scope of this FOI, I only require the summary documents for the total amounts, and do not require constant running sheets of bills being paid. For example, if a final tally of all payments made since 2016 was available in one document, I would only require the latest version of said document and not any previous periodic updates. 		One document released in full. Department
FOI19/148 25/09/2019 1. emails, talking points, briefs, submissions, advices and notes relating to:

(a) the constitutional basis for, and

(b) the potential practical applications of the amending provisions proposed under the Defence Amendment (Call Out of the Australian Defence Force) Bill 2018; and

2. manuals, rules of engagement, guidelines, emails, talking points, briefs, submissions and advices in relation to rules of engagement guidelines under the Defence Amendment (Call Out of the Australian Defence Force) Bill 2018. 		Four documents released in full, two documents released in part and 13 documents exempt in full. Department