Disclosure Log
Under Part II of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act), the Department is required to publish a disclosure log on the department’s website. The disclosure log contains information which has been released in response to an FOI request. The publication of documents on the disclosure log must be done within 10 working days of an applicant receiving them.
The requirement to publish documents on the disclosure log 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.
Information attached to, or referred to, in the agency’s disclosure log will generally be removed after 12 months, unless the information has enduring public value.
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| FOI Reference No. | Date of access | FOI Request | Documents |
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| 17/18-098 | 8 June 2018 | Ministerial briefing documents, excluding drafts, prepared between 01 January 2015 and 23 November 2015 by the Department of Social Services with respect to: the abolition of belief-based exemptions, (both religious and conscientious); and, the narrowing of medical contraindication exemptions in Commonwealth legislation |
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| 17/18-097 | 17 April 2018 |
A document showing: The number of current age pensioners whose payment is determined under the asset test and who have an assessable amount for curtilage adjacent to their principal home on their record at 31 December 2017. The number of age pensioners who have had their payment cancelled due to the application of the assets tests and at the time of cancellation had an assessable amount for curtilage on their record between 1 January 2016 and 31 December 2017. |
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| 17/18-086 | 21 March 2018 | All documents on the file titled ‘briefing on the outcome of the Whole of Government Debt Strategy Review in September 2017 (EF17/35266)’ |
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| 17/18-085 | 16 March 2018 | [Item 1] A copy of the summary checklist required for submission of requirements under the National Rental Affordability Scheme (NRAS). |
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| 17/18-080 | 13 March 2018 | Documents in the last twelve months on the demand for the Carer Adjustment Payment and the granting of such assistance. |
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| 17/18-079 | 1 March 2018 | [Item 1] A copy of the impact assessment carried out by DSS and Business Information Services into the breach of DSS employee information identified in October, 2017 by Australian Signals Directorate. |
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| 17/18-075 | 15 February 2018 |
All documents which relate to the decision of the Department of Social Services not to send a representative to the conference convened by AbilitySeer |
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| Email trail between the General Manager of AbilitySeer and the Department of Social Services and internal departmental emails | |||
| Email trail between the General Manager of AbilitySeer and the Department of Social Services and internal departmental emails | |||
| Email trial between the General Manager of AbilitySeer and the Department of Social Services and internal departmental emails | |||
| 17/18-067 | 12 February 2018 | All reports given to the Attorney-General, Attorney-General’s Department or Office of Legal Services Coordination regarding compliance with the Legal Services Directions, including but not limited to annual compliance certificates, for the period 1 July 2015 to present. |
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FOI Request No. 17/18-067 Document [PDF 14.8 MB] Document 1 – Agency Notification Form Document 2 – Certificate of Compliance and Legal Services Expenditure Report for 2016-17 financial year Document 3 – Certificate of Compliance and Legal Services Expenditure Report for 2015-16 financial year Document 4 – Agency Notification Form Document 5 – Agency Notification Form Document 6 - Certificate of Compliance and Legal Services Expenditure Report for 2014-15 financial year |
| 17/18-065 | 5 February 2018 |
The gift register for the Department of Social Services for the previous five years. Excluding staff names, contact details and signatures. |
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FOI Request No. 17/18-065 Document [PDF 3,500 KB] Document 1 – Department of Social Services Central Gift Register and attachments Document 2 – Gift Register – Payments Policy Group Document 3 – Gift Register – DSS Regional Offices Document 4 – Gift Register – International Relations Section Document 5 – Gift Register – ICC Port Augusta Office |
| 17/18-071 | 29 January 2018 |
Item 1: A previous FOI request confirmed over 40 people are exempt from the cashless welfare card. What are the following demographics of those with current exemptions: Indigenous / Non Indigenous status Item 2: With over 40 people being granted exemption from the cashless welfare card trials, I would like to request the procedural guidelines for assessing this exemption. Item 3: Please provide the procedure or guidelines used when assessing how rent assistance is paid to those who are subjected to the cashless welfare card, if rent assistance does form part of the 80/20 split please also provide evidence of rent assistance being included as a restrict-able payment within the allowing legislation or instrument. |
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FOI Request No. 17/18-071 Document [PDF 670 KB] Document 1 - Exemption data |
| 17/18-061 | 29 January 2018 | Correspondence between the OAIC and the Department of Social Services pertaining to the exposure of DSS staffs' personal information by contractor Business Information Services. |
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FOI Request No. 17/18-061 Document [PDF 16.4 MB] Departmental email correspondence relating to the privacy breach by Business Information Services. |
| 17/18-023 | 22 December 2017 | The number of DV incident reports made available to Orima Research for their evaluation of the Cashless Debit Card Trials |
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Wyndham police statistics Feb 15 Kununurra police statistics Feb 2015 WA Crime Statistics Kununurra, Wyndham and Derby |
| Wyndham police statistics Feb 15 | |||
| Kununurra police statistics Feb 2015 | |||
| WA Crime Statistics Kununurra, Wyndham and Derby | |||
| 17/18-030 | National Rental Affordability Scheme documents relating to properties at 56, 58, 60, 62 1and 64 Church street Armadale (Strata Lots 5 to 1) |
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List of dwellings for Church street QHG Change Request Supporting data – 1-GVQ09B QHG Supporting data – 1-GVQ09B – 1-IEQM6R (Albany – Maddington – Armadale) |
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| List of dwellings for Church street | |||
| QHG Change Request Supporting data – 1-GVQ09B | |||
| QHG Supporting data – 1-GVQ09B – 1-IEQM6R (Albany – Maddington – Armadale) | |||
| 17/18-043 | 17 November 2017 | How many people currently reside in a postcode declared via instrument to be a trial area for the purposes of the cashless welfare card trails, collect a restrictable declared payment yet are not subjected to the welfare card. |
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FOI Request No. 17/18-043 Document [DOC 14.9KB] The number of people currently residing in a Cashless Debit Card Trial area yet not subject to the Cashless Debit Card. |
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17/18-019
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15 November 2017
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Documents such as reports, ministerial/ executive briefings and attachments, Senate Estimates briefings, internal correspondence involving the Department Secretary such as emails, since 1 January 2017, relating to drug testing of welfare recipients.
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FOI Request No. 17/18-019 Document 17 [PDF 639 KB] Document 17 - Budget Measure - Tackling Substance abuse by Welfare Recipients FOI Request No. 17/18-019 Document 18 [PDF 567 KB] Document 18 - 2017-18 Budget Estimates Hearings - May 2017 FOI Request No. 17/18-019 Document 20 [PDF 568 KB] Document 20 - 2017-18 Budget Estimates Hearings - May 2017 Budget Measure – Tackling Substance Abuse by Welfare Recipients FOI Request No. 17/18-019 Document 21 [PDF 710 KB] Document 21 - SS-34 Drug and Alcohol reform – Drug testing, Exemptions and DSP Talking Points FOI Request No. 17/18-019 Document 22 [PDF 616 KB] Document 22 – Department of Social Services Secretary Briefing Meeting with Ministers Porter and Tudge 8 August 2017 |
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Document 17 - Budget Measure - Tackling Substance abuse by Welfare Recipients |
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Document 18 - 2017-18 Budget Estimates Hearings - May 2017 |
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Document 20 - 2017-18 Budget Estimates Hearings - May 2017 Budget Measure – Tackling Substance Abuse by Welfare Recipients |
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Document 21 - SS-34 Drug and Alcohol reform – Drug testing, Exemptions and DSP Talking Points |
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Document 22 – Department of Social Services Secretary Briefing Meeting with Ministers Porter and Tudge 8 August 2017 |
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| 17/18-032 | 25 October 2017 | The total cost of the cashless debit card trials in Ceduna and the East Kimberley from the beginning until 31 August 2017 and the total projected cost of the rollout of the cashless debit card in Bundaberg and Hervey Bay and the Goldfields. |
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FOI Request No. 17/18-032 - Attachment A FOI Request No. 17/18-032 - Attachment A |
| 17/18-009 | 23/08/2017 | The number of people who will not receive the Energy Supplement as a result of its abolition for new recipients, by State and by electorate, by 2020 and the number of people currently in the workforce who will be affected by increasing the pension eligibility age to 70. |
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FOI Request No. 17/18-009 Documents Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee, Answers to Questions on Notice (26 July 2017), Questions 5-6 and Senate Community Affairs Committee, 2017-18 Budget Estimates Hearings, Answers to Estimates Questions - No: SQ17-000350. |
| 16/17-156 | 31 August 2017 |
The Method Report in relation to the Australian Priority Investment Approach to Welfare. |
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FOI Request No. 16/17-156 Document Method Report 30 June 2015 Baseline Valuation |
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16/17-146 |
10 July 2017 |
Documents that address the possibility of false positives in drug testing of welfare recipients |
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FOI Request No. 16/17-146 [PDF 164 KB] Overview of proposed legislative approach for drug testing trial and Tackling drug and Alcohol abuse among welfare recipients Questions and Answers. |
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