Disclosure log

Any records held by the department of meetings between the former environment minister Josh Frydenberg and/or his staff and representatives for Walker Corporation. This includes, but is not limited to, diary entries, notes from meetings, any departmental correspondence related to such meetings - including emails, any notes from phone calls, any briefings prepared in advance of or as a result of those meetings. Documents for the entire time period 19 July 2016 to 28 August 2018 are sought.
 

All correspondence between the Department of Energy and Environment and the UNESCO World Heritage Centre between 1 January 2020 and 2 March 2020 regarding the Blue Mountains.

Email correspondence regarding Western Highway.

The applicant requested the Veterinary and Export Meat Group Workforce Review Report.

Internal review of FOI 190915

Information and or briefings on the natural temperate grassland of the south eastern highlands that were prepared ahead of meetings between the Minister and the Prime Minister and/or their staff. In seeking this information I request the following:

• All briefs, including drafts circulated within the department
• All briefs, including drafts, supplied to the Minister or the Prime Minister and/or their offices
• The entire briefing pack prepared for the meeting referenced in departmental emails dated Tuesday 30 January, 2018. For your reference, please see Question on Notice 230 from supplementary budget estimates https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Senate_estimates/ec/2019-…. The entire briefing pack in this instance means the brief on the grasslands plus any other briefings on other issues relevant to the Environment portfolio that were prepared as part of a package for this meeting. I include drafts in this request. For the avoidance of doubt, I do not require any briefings related to issues that sit within the Energy portfolio. 
• I also request any correspondence related to the above grasslands briefing: this means any requests from the Minister, the Prime Minister or staff in either of their offices for this information, any follow up correspondence from the Minister, the Prime Minister or staff in either of their offices once this information was supplied, and any internal departmental correspondence relating to the preparation of this grasslands brief or any follow-up information (including emails to and from staff). When I say correspondence, I am referring to emails, meeting records, diary records, notes from meetings, notes from phone calls and any messages (whatsapp, sms etc). 
• Any other records of meetings between the Minister and the Prime Minister regarding the natural temperate grassland of the south eastern highlands or the compliance case against Jam Land Pty Ltd. In requesting records I also ask for any internal departmental correspondence relating to such meetings.
• Any other additional briefs on either the grasslands or the compliance case against Jam Land Pty Ltd that were prepared for meetings between the Minister/his office and the Prime Minister/his office. In requesting this, I also request any internal departmental correspondence relating to the preparation of such briefs.

Briefings to the Federal Environment Minister and/or Federal Government, produced since 1 Jan 2016, in relation to:
a.          The risks to critical infrastructure and/or essential services associated with the impacts of climate change and associated impacts and/or consequences of more frequent or severe bushfires.
b.          The risks to Australia’s economy associated with the impacts of climate change and associated impacts and/or consequences of more frequent or severe bushfires.

On 9 December 2019, Andrew McNee, Assistant Secretary Assessments and Governance Branch, as delegate of the Minister for the Environment, decided the assessment approach and controlling provisions for the North Galilee Water Scheme (EPBC 2019/8508). The decision was published on the EPBC Act referrals list website here.  

I request access to those documents within the package of documents prepared by the Department (normally called the ‘decision brief’) that the delegate considered in making the decision.

I seek documents including emails, photographs and video footage associated with filming of the removal of the Uluru climbing chain and summit cairn in Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park.

1. All correspondence between the Department of Energy and Environment and the UNESCO World Heritage Centre between 17 January 2019 and present containing the words "Blue Mountains".

2. All correspondence sent and received between Heritage Branch and the following parties between 1 March 2019 and present:

(a) NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment;
(b) WaterNSW
(c) SMEC Holdings
(d) Infrastructure NSW

that discuss the methodology for the assessment of the proposal to raise the Warragamba Dam wall.

3. All correspondence and advice between Environment Approvals branch and any NSW Government agencies, NSW Government consultants or NSW Ministers offices between 1 March 2019 and present containing the words "Warragamba".