Email between the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts and the office of the Minister for Communications in relation to General Business…

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This FOI release comprises an email chain dated 8 September 2026 from the Senate Table Office to the Minister for Communications' office, with a copy to the department, transmitting orders for the production of documents agreed to by the Senate that day. The attached orders include General Business Notice of Motion no. 648, which concerns the Minister for Communications' overseas travel. It notes that order no. 321, passed on 4 February 2026, sought documents about the Minister's September 2025 travel to New York. The Minister's March 2026 response stated that no in-scope documents had been found. The motion records that the department later identified as many as 700 documents potentially within scope of a freedom of information request, which was denied in August 2026. The motion requires the Minister representing the Minister for Communications to give a five-minute explanation in the Senate on 9 September 2026. The release contains no project delivery, funding or cost data.