Australian Law/Freedom of Information/Commonwealth/Process

This page sets out the distinct stages in the process of making and determining a request for access to documents under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cth). Suppose you had a filing system for FOI requests with a 'status' field for each request; the value of that field would be something from the list below.

This page uses the term 'agency' to cover both 'agency' and 'Minister'. 'IC' is the Australian Information Commissioner. 'AAT' is the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.