Freedom of Information (FOI) Disclosure Log 2017

Updated: 3 October 2017

FOI Request LS6243

Request for access to:

  • Documents of all communications received from and sent to the Australian Documents of all communications received from and sent to the Australian Society of Hypnosis Ltd or any of its Office Bearers or employees both by email and ordinary post together with any file notes of telephone conversations or face to face discussions from 10 August 2017, up to and including 30 August 2017.

FOI Request LS6243, Schedule of Released Documents

FOI Request LS6239

Request for access to:

  • an elector count by division, age and gender for all States/Territories (like those that are published quarterly on the AEC website) that only includes all new enrolments made in the period between 8 and 24 August 2017.

FOI Request LS6239, Schedule of Released Documents

FOI Request LS6199

Request for:

  • Any document between the date range 3 July 2016 and 29 June 2017 containing a request from any Member of the Australian Parliament (in that or any other capacity) or their office for the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) to investigate or review GetUp or any aspect of GetUp’s activities.
  • Any document recording a conversation had between 3 July 2016 and 29 June 2017 during which any Member of the Australian Parliament (in that or any other capacity) or their office requested the AEC to investigate or review GetUp or any aspect of GetUp’s activities.

FOI Request LS6199, Schedule of Released Documents

FOI Request LS6206

Request for:

  • Documents of all communications received from and sent to the Australian Society of Hypnosis ltd (" the Society") or any of its office bearers or employees both by email and ordinary post together with any file notes of telephone conversations or face to face discussions during the last 12 months, being from 10 August 2016 to 10 August 2017.

FOI Request LS6206, Schedule of Released Documents

FOI Request LS6217

Request for:

  • correspondence, advice and ministerial communication related to the determination that 16 and 17 year olds will not be surveyed in the Marriage Law Postal Survey, and
  • correspondence, advice and ministerial communication related of the Treasurer’s direction to the ABS with regard to its definition of “elector” for the Marriage Law Postal Survey.

FOI Request LS6217, Schedule of Released Documents

FOI Request LS6223

Request for:

  • A copy of the Nomination Form for Senate Candidates in use by the AEC immediately prior to the writs being issued for the 2004 Federal Election;
  • A copy of any Information for Senate Candidates documents produced by or provided by the Commonwealth and in use immediately prior to the writs being issued for the 2004 Federal Election;
  • Documents, received by the AEC relating to the Nomination of Mr Barnaby Thomas Gerard Joyce to run for election in Queensland to The Senate in the 2004 Federal Election, being documents relating to his nomination and not to his campaign for election;
  • A copy of the completed nomination form relating to the Nomination of Mr Barnaby Thomas Gerard Joyce to run for election in Queensland to The Senate in 2004 Federal Election; and
  • Documents, including any receipts issued, relating to the refund of the deposit made in relation to the Nomination of Mr Barnaby Thomas Gerard Joyce to run for election in Queensland to The Senate in 2004 Federal Election.

FOI Request LS6223, Schedule of Released Documents

FOI Request LS6224

Request for:

  • A copy of the Nomination Form for House of Representatives Candidates in use by the AEC immediately prior to the writs being issued for the 2013 Federal Election;
  • A copy of any Information for House of Representatives Candidates documents produced by or provided by the Commonwealth and in use immediately prior to the writs being issued for the 2013 Federal Election;
  • Documents received by the AEC relating to the Nomination of Mr Barnaby Thomas Gerard Joyce to run for election in the seat of New England to the House of Representatives in the 2013 Federal Election, being documents relating to his nomination and not his campaign for election;
  • A copy of the completed nomination form relating to the Nomination of Mr Barnaby Thomas Gerard Joyce to run for election in the seat of New England to the House of Representatives in the 2013 Federal Election; and
  • Documents, including any receipts issued, relating to the refund of the deposit made in relation to the Nomination of Mr Barnaby Thomas Gerard Joyce to run for election in the seat of New England to the House of Representatives in the 2013 Federal Election.”

FOI Request LS6224, Schedule of Released Documents

FOI Request LS5796

Request 19 October 2016 for

Any documents relating to the voting by prisoners in every state and territory in Australia during the 2016 federal election, including those:

  • (a) Relating to voter turnout and behaviour in Australian prisons and gaols
  • (b) Relating to compliance of prison voting procedures during the 2016 election period

FOI Request LS5796, Schedule of Released Documents

FOI Request LS5911

The completed premises inspection for the polling place at Randwick Town Hall in the Division of Wentworth, NSW which was carried out as part of the Electronic Premises Inspection Tool (EPIT) project ahead of the 2016 federal election;

Any documents, reports, notes or correspondence relating to the decision of the Electoral Commissioner to appoint Randwick Town Hall a polling place under s80 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 (Cth) for the 2016 federal election;

Documents about the compliant and non-compliant accessibility aspects of the polling place at Randwick Town Hall which was displayed on the AEC’s website during the election period;

Documents about complaints made regarding the accessibility of the polling place at Randwick Town Hall:

  • by [name redacted] either shortly before or in the week after the 2016 Federal election (most probably made sometime between 26 June-7July); and
  • recording of the number and dates of any other complaints made about the accessibility of the polling place at Randwick Town Hall at the last 2010, 2013 and 2016 federal elections.

Any documents, reports, notes or correspondence relating to the complaint made by [name redacted] and

Any documents, reports, notes or correspondence relating to the accessibility of the polling place at Randwick Town Hall, including any estimates of the cost of adjustments to improve accessibility.

FOI Request LS5911, Schedule of Released Documents

FOI Request LS5871

Request for documents mentioning and/or relevant to:

  1. the efficacy of political donation disclosure laws
  2. suggestions and/or proposals for improving and/or tightening political donation disclosure laws

between 12 December 2015 and now.

FOI Request LS5871, Schedule of Released Documents

FOI Request LS5940

Request for an extract from a spreadsheet provided to an external ballot agent in for the purpose of conducting a ballot requested by an employer under section 181 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the ‘FW Act’) showing the list of column headings (or row, as the case requires) that describe the type of data used to populate the spreadsheet about employees listed in the spreadsheet to participate in each ballot held since for enterprise agreements which were proposed to take effect after 30 June 2014.

FOI Request LS5940, Schedule of Released Documents

FOI Request LS5915

Request made for all correspondence by the Australian Electoral Commission (‘AEC’) with political parties or associated entities in relation amendment of the 2015-16 annual financial disclosure by each party or entity.

FOI Request LS5915, Schedule of Released Documents

FOI Request LS5826

Request for:

  1. All documents that document suspected incidences of multiple voting (which includes suspected multiple ‘marking off’ at the polling place) at the 2016 Federal Election, including but not limited to documents setting out the number of incidences of suspected multiple voting and the polling locations where those incidences occurred.
  2. All documents setting out a tally of the number of instances of potential multiple votes in the 2016 Federal Election, including but not limited to documents that state the number of instances per polling place and/or per electorate.
  3. That portion of the briefing documents taken by Mr Rogers to the Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee on 18 October 2016 that refers or relates to the multiple voting issue.
  4. Any document setting out a tally or total number of suspected multiple voting at the 2013 Federal Election, including but not limited to details of the number of instances per polling place and/or per electorate.
  5. The list that sets out the electorate details of those people who were written to by the AEC in relation to suspected multiple voting. [N.B. This relates to the statement by Mr Rogers to the Senate that “For 2013, we sent out about 18,000 letters for multiple voting”, and the list that would have been created to allow those letters to be sent out.]
  6. Any memoranda or correspondence to or from Mr Tom Rogers and/or Mr Pablo Carpay regarding or relating to multiple voting at the 2016 Federal Election, dated on or after 2 July 2016.

FOI Request LS5826, Schedule of Released Documents

FOI Request LS5796

Any documents relating to the voting by prisoners in every state and territory in Australia during the 2016 federal election, including those:

  1. Relating to voter turnout and behaviour in Australian prisons and gaols
  2. Relating to compliance of prison voting procedures during the 2016 election period

FOI Request LS5796, Schedule of Released Documents

FOI Request LS5930

Request for a complete copy of the periodic disclosures database which stores the data displayed on http://periodicdisclosures.aec.gov.au including all tables and columns that make up the database provided in an appropriate machine readable format, for example, SQL or CSV

FOI Request LS5930, Schedule of Released Documents