Policy

Release of the Department of Health and Ageing’s Incoming Government Brief

The Department of Health and Ageing has received multiple requests for access to all or parts of the Incoming Government Brief under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act).

Some of these requests were received prior to the amendment of the FOI Act from 1 November 2010 and others after that date. Given the interest in the brief, the Department has decided to publish on its website the brief with redactions based on exemptions that apply to FOI requests made from 1 November 2010. This version of the brief replaces the brief published on this website on 2 December 2010, which contained redactions based on the previous version of the FOI Act.

You may download PDF printable (scanned image) versions of the documents:

Incoming Government Briefing Volume 1: Key Decisions and Hot Issues (PDF 4743 KB)

Incoming Government Briefing Volume 2: Election Commitments (PDF 652 KB)

HTML version of Incoming Government Briefing Volume 2: Election Commitments

Incoming Government Briefing Volume 4: Program Overviews (PDF 4808 KB)

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