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FOI request Disclosure Log 2011-12

Publicly available information released following a Freedom of Information (FOI) access request for the period 2011-12.

  • 30 June 2011 | Updated 1 May 2013

If you require access to the documents in an alternative format please contact:

Ms Rosemary Caldwell
FOI Officer
Phone: +61 2 6276 6123
Email: FOI@csiro.au

 

FOI Exemptions

FOI Reference Number and Date of Release:

FOI 2011/5
Date of Release: 4 July 2011

Summary of FOI Request: Documents and related material coming out of the CMAR Capability [Development] Plan 2008-2010 process from 1 August 2008 to 31 July 2009.

Access and Exemptions: Please refer to attached schedule of documents.

 

FOI Reference Number and Date of Release:

FOI 2011/26
27 June 2011

Summary of FOI Request: Documents relating to final carbon foot print audits for the CSIRO over the past five years.

 

FOI Reference Number and Date of Release:

FOI 2011/32
9 December 2011

Summary of FOI Request: Any data pertaining to the presence of arsenic within the residue drying areas (RDAs) at Alcoa’s WA refineries.

 

FOI Reference Number and Date of Release:

FOI 2011/33
24 October 2011

Summary of FOI Request: Documents stating the costs of conducting two investigations in CSIRO – HBA Consulting investigation and Aequ’us Partners investigation into grievances in the 2010.

Doc 1 – CSIRO Remittance Advice. Full access

Doc 2 – Aequ’us Partners Tax Invoice (97/2010). Part exempt s47G(1)(a)

Doc 3 – Aequ’us Partners Tax Invoice (98/2010). Part exempt s47G(1)(a)

Doc 4 – HBA Consulting Tax Invoice. Part exempt s47G(1)(a)

Doc 5 – HBA Consulting Tax Invoice. Part exempt s47G(1)(a)

Doc 6 – CSIRO Remittance Advice. Full access

Doc 7 – CSIRO Remittance Advice. Full access

 

FOI Reference Number and Date of Release:

FOI 2011/38
25 October 2011

Summary of FOI Request: Copies of the internal review(s) of the paper ‘Bio-Benchmarking of Electronic Nose Sensors (2009) PLOS One 4(7).

Doc 1 – Manuscript Review Form (2009). Full access

Doc 2 – Entomology Intranet Communication and Publication Procedures. Full access

Doc 3 – CSIRO Current procedures CSIRO Entomology Communication and Publication Procedures. Full access

 

FOI Reference Number and Date of Release:

FOI 2011/41
20 October 2011

Summary of FOI Request:  Documents relating to CSIRO Food Future Flagship program to commercialise genetically modified wheat.

Doc 1 – CSIRO – Background brief Follow up Meeting with Greenpeace. Part exempt s7

Doc 2 – Email – GM Wheat Correspondence. Full access

Doc 3 – Email – RE: Email GM Wheat Correspondence. Full access

Doc 4 – Email – RE: GM Wheat Correspondence – Input Requested by Wed 17 Aug 2011.  Full access

Doc 5 – CSIRO – Brief – CSIRO Research into Genetically Modified (GM) Wheat. Part exempt s7

Doc 6 – CSIRO – Meeting Brief – Meeting with Greenpeace and CSIRO. Part exempt s7

Doc 7 – CSIRO – Brief – Incursion at CSIRO Ginninderra Wheat Trial. Part exempt s7, 47E(b)(d)

 

FOI Reference Number and Date of Release:

FOI 2011/47
7 December 2011

Summary of FOI Request: Copies of any information to do with CSIRO and Termi-Mesh regarding ABSAC Opinion between the years 1990 through to 1 March 1993.

 

FOI Reference Number and Date of Release:

FOI 2011/48
12 December 2011

Summary of FOI Request: Copy of the IRS Overhead Costing Review undertaken by CSIRO and PWC
Doc 1 – CSIRO IRS Overhead Costing Review – Reissued.

 

FOI Reference Number and Date of Release:

FOI 2011/52
27 March 2012

Summary of FOI Request:
(1) All flora and fauna’ reports to 37 Graham Rd, Highett including the following two reports commissioned by CSIRO and the terms of reference from CSIRO to all and each consultant:

  • Flora and Fauna Assessment: CSIRO Highett, Victoria. April 2011 by Biosis Research Pty Ltd, 38 Bertie Street, Port Melbourne, Vic 3207
  • Flora, Fauna and Habitat Hectare Assessment 2011, by Brett Lane and Associates, 605 Nicholson Street, Carlton VIC 3054

(2) All documents relating to ‘flora and fauna’ at 37 Graham Rd Highett.

(3) Any correspondence, including any attachments, between CSIRO and the following parties relating to 37 Graham Rd, Highett:

  • Bayside City Council
  • The Minister for the Environment and/or the Office of the Minister for the Environment
  • The Department of Sustainability and Environment
  • Biosis Research Pty Ltd
  • Brett Lane and Associates

 

FOI Reference Number and Date of Release:

FOI 2011/55
13 April 2012

Summary of FOI Request: Documents relating to documentary evidence of verification testing (DNA or otherwise) conducted on Marsanne or Reichensteiner vines at all CSIRO facilities in the period from 1975 to 13 January 2012.

 

FOI Reference Number and Date of Release:

FOI 2011/58
23 April 2012

Summary of FOI Request: Report of the review of CSIRO property Services conducted by Grosvenor Consulting.

 

FOI Reference Number and Date of Release:

FOI 2011/65
4 July 2012

Summary of FOI Request: Documents relating to the report referred to on the CSIRO Website: Carbon capture technology moves a step closer.

 

FOI Reference Number and Date of Release:

FOI 2011/67
7 May 2012

Summary of FOI Request: Documents containing CSIRO response to the recommendations made by external panel in their report from 2010 Science Review of CSIRO Entomology.

Doc 1 – Memorandum to the CSIRO Executive Team. Part exempt s47G(1)(a)

Doc 2 – Memorandum to the CSIRO Board. Part exempt s22 & s47G(1)(a)

 

FOI Reference Number and Date of Release:

FOI 2011/69
31 July 2012

Summary of FOI Request: Documents relating to the outbreak of a herpes-like virus in Victoria abalone, now known as Abalone Viral Ganglioneuritis ('AVG') which commenced during December 2005 (the 'Victorian Outbreak').