Email of 7 August 2009 to the Adviser of the Prime Minister’s Department

Dear Ms Huegill,

Thanks for your email. Seemingly, you did not understand why I called you and sent you email of 28 July 2009. My email was in response to Mr MacDowell’s letter of 10 July 2009 which was about my FOI inquiry. This FOI inquiry is about:
1. how Ms Rebecca Irwin, senior adviser in the Office of the Prime Minister, made her decision in her letter of 16 December 2008 and,
2. how Ms Sarah Adams, senior adviser in the Office of the Prime Minister, made her decision in her letter of 23 February, in terms:
‘a. whether this matter has been brought to your (the PM’s) attention?
b. whether you (the PM) have decided ‘further correspondence on this issue may not receive a response’?
c. whether you (the PM) have decided not to do anything in respect of Australians’ constitutional right to follow the laws and Constitution at work even though you (the PM) have been advised that the Full Court’s interpretation of the unlawful dismissal laws ‘is incorrect’ and affects all workers?
d. what are your (the PM’s) grounds for not upholding Australians’ constitutional right at work?
e. what are your (the PM’s) grounds for keeping the situation that Australians at work have to follow apparently unlawful directions?
f. who decided not to inform you (the PM) about the matter and what policies were applied, if you (the PM) have not been informed?
g. who decided not to take any actions, and what were the decision maker’s grounds, if you (the PM) have not done so?’

The previous FOI inquiry, which is now under reviewing, is about Mr Alex Anderson’s letter of 26 August 2008 regarding how he, as the assistant secretary of Legal Policy Brach in the Department of the Prime Minister, made his decision of 26 August 2008.

Enclosures:

1. Ms Kim Huegill’s email of 3 August 2009 and my email of 28 July 2009

2. Letter of 10 July 2009 of Mr David Macgill A/g First Assistant Secretary Government Division of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet p1, p2, p3, p4, p5 and p6