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FOI 2025/41

  • Date of release: 15 July 2025
  • Summary of FOI Request: Certain materials produced by CSIRO under its agreement with The Metals Company (between 1 April 2023 and 31 May 2025), correspondence with The Metals Company (between 1 April 2025 and 31 May 2025), correspondence with consortium partners (between 1 April 2023 and 31 May 2025) and certain materials produced for the International Seabed Authority (between July 2022 and 31 May 2025).
  • Documents available on request - foi@csiro.au
  • s47C, s47E(d), s47F

FOI 2025/52

  • Date of release: 22 September 2025
  • Summary of FOI Request: Documents related to work CSIRO has completed as part of a consortium engaged by Canada-based deep-sea mining company The Metals Company (including any related subsidiaries, such as Nauru Ocean Resources or NORI).
  • Documents available on request - foi@csiro.au
  • s47E(c), s47F

FOI 2025/54

  • Date of release: 22 August 2025
  • Summary of FOI Request: Any documents—up to a maximum of five (5)—that substantiate the following claim published on CSIRO website:
    “Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere absorb some of this re-radiated heat, which increases the temperature of the Earth's surface, ocean and atmosphere.””
  • Documents available on request - foi@csiro.au
  • Full Release

FOI 2025/55

  • Date of release: 20 August 2025
  • Summary of FOI Request: Documents, correspondence, datasets, input assumptions, constraints, and code comprising the modelling that underpins the variable renewable integration costs in the 2024-25 GenCost report, as referenced on page 23 of the report.
  • Documents available on request - foi@csiro.au
  • s47(1)(c)

FOI 2025/62

  • Date of release: 29 September 2025
  • Summary of FOI Request: The minutes, slides and any recordings from the technical workshop on LCOE measures that adjust for each technology’s cost of achieving reliable supply
  • Documents available on request - foi@csiro.au
  • s47F

FOI 2025/63

  • Date of release: 29 September 2025
  • Summary of FOI Request: The letters sent formally inviting collaborating organisations to join the project advisory group and the minutes from project advisory group meetings regarding GenCost reports.
  • Documents available on request - foi@csiro.au
  • s22, s47F

FOI 2025/66

  • Date of release: 16 October 2025
  • Summary of FOI Request: Any documents that:
  1. provide a physical explanation of how an increase in temperature within the troposphere could result in a net increase in surface temperature via radiative transfer.
  2. address the apparent contradiction this mechanism poses to the Second Law of Thermodynamics,
  3. clarify whether CSIRO climate models explicitly incorporate or reconcile this mechanism with the Stefan-Boltzmann Law and other foundational principles of radiative heat transfer.
  • Full Release

FOI 2025/71

  • Date of release: 17 October 2025
  • Summary of FOI Request: Any incoming government briefs prepared by the CSIRO for the incoming Minister after the May 2025 federal election.
  • Documents available on request - foi@csiro.au
  • s47C, s47E(d)

FOI 2025/76

  • Date of release: 30 October 2025
  • Summary of FOI Request: Any expenditure on indoor plants and maintenance, outdoor plants and maintenance, floral arrangements, and landscaping or lawn maintenance (as specified in the original application) that are managed centrally by the Organisation for the period 1 May 2022 to the present across several sites.
  • Documents available on request - foi@csiro.au
  • Released in full

FOI 2025/77

  • Date of release: 9 October 2025
  • Summary of FOI Request: Any document or record of communication—regardless of format—initiated by Dr Hilton or any CSIRO staff member in response to correspondence dated 9 September 2025.
  • Documents available on request - foi@csiro.au
  • s47E(d)

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FOI 2025/41

  • Date of release: 15 July 2025
  • Summary of FOI Request: Certain materials produced by CSIRO under its agreement with The Metals Company (between 1 April 2023 and 31 May 2025), correspondence with The Metals Company (between 1 April 2025 and 31 May 2025), correspondence with consortium partners (between 1 April 2023 and 31 May 2025) and certain materials produced for the International Seabed Authority (between July 2022 and 31 May 2025).
  • Documents available on request - foi@csiro.au
  • s47C, s47E(d), s47F

FOI 2025/52

  • Date of release: 22 September 2025
  • Summary of FOI Request: Documents related to work CSIRO has completed as part of a consortium engaged by Canada-based deep-sea mining company The Metals Company (including any related subsidiaries, such as Nauru Ocean Resources or NORI).
  • Documents available on request - foi@csiro.au
  • s47E(c), s47F

FOI 2025/54

  • Date of release: 22 August 2025
  • Summary of FOI Request: Any documents—up to a maximum of five (5)—that substantiate the following claim published on CSIRO website:
    “Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere absorb some of this re-radiated heat, which increases the temperature of the Earth's surface, ocean and atmosphere.””
  • Documents available on request - foi@csiro.au
  • Full Release

FOI 2025/55

  • Date of release: 20 August 2025
  • Summary of FOI Request: Documents, correspondence, datasets, input assumptions, constraints, and code comprising the modelling that underpins the variable renewable integration costs in the 2024-25 GenCost report, as referenced on page 23 of the report.
  • Documents available on request - foi@csiro.au
  • s47(1)(c)

FOI 2025/62

  • Date of release: 29 September 2025
  • Summary of FOI Request: The minutes, slides and any recordings from the technical workshop on LCOE measures that adjust for each technology’s cost of achieving reliable supply
  • Documents available on request - foi@csiro.au
  • s47F

FOI 2025/63

  • Date of release: 29 September 2025
  • Summary of FOI Request: The letters sent formally inviting collaborating organisations to join the project advisory group and the minutes from project advisory group meetings regarding GenCost reports.
  • Documents available on request - foi@csiro.au
  • s22, s47F

FOI 2025/66

  • Date of release: 16 October 2025
  • Summary of FOI Request: Any documents that:
  1. provide a physical explanation of how an increase in temperature within the troposphere could result in a net increase in surface temperature via radiative transfer.
  2. address the apparent contradiction this mechanism poses to the Second Law of Thermodynamics,
  3. clarify whether CSIRO climate models explicitly incorporate or reconcile this mechanism with the Stefan-Boltzmann Law and other foundational principles of radiative heat transfer.
  • Full Release

FOI 2025/71

  • Date of release: 17 October 2025
  • Summary of FOI Request: Any incoming government briefs prepared by the CSIRO for the incoming Minister after the May 2025 federal election.
  • Documents available on request - foi@csiro.au
  • s47C, s47E(d)

FOI 2025/76

  • Date of release: 30 October 2025
  • Summary of FOI Request: Any expenditure on indoor plants and maintenance, outdoor plants and maintenance, floral arrangements, and landscaping or lawn maintenance (as specified in the original application) that are managed centrally by the Organisation for the period 1 May 2022 to the present across several sites.
  • Documents available on request - foi@csiro.au
  • Released in full

FOI 2025/77

  • Date of release: 9 October 2025
  • Summary of FOI Request: Any document or record of communication—regardless of format—initiated by Dr Hilton or any CSIRO staff member in response to correspondence dated 9 September 2025.
  • Documents available on request - foi@csiro.au
  • s47E(d)