Correspondence sent or received by Dr Gordon de Brouwer from 1 July 2023 in relation to PID-2020-400006

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This FOI release is an internal email dated 12 July 2024 from Melanie McIntyre, General Counsel of the Australian Public Service Commission, copied to Dr Gordon de Brouwer and Rachel Bacon, alerting them to a partial disclosure. The attached document is a redacted Commonwealth Ombudsman section 12 notice giving feedback on the APSC's 2020 handling of a Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013 investigation. That investigation concerned recruitment practices at the Federal Court of Australia between 2016 and 2018, and the Ombudsman had examined a complaint about the APSC's handling of it in 2021 and 2022. The email states that little content was released because of confidentiality obligations for PID informants and Ombudsman investigations. The released material is limited to Ombudsman feedback that the Commission should improve its handling of similar matters. No headcounts, costs or Code of Conduct findings are described in the email.