FOI 2455 – release documents – COVID-19 multicultural data

The types of documents disclosed include email correspondence between the Department of Health and members of the national Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities COVID-19 Health Advisory Group and attachments to those emails. The content of the emails includes correspondence for meeting arrangements on the topic of multicultural data; deliberative discussion about the required indicators to collect and report data on vaccine coverage for multicultural communities, such as 'country of birth' and 'language spoken'; correspondence about the COVID-19 vaccine program; information about the linkage of the Australian Immunisation Register to the Multi-Agency Data Integration Project;