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Released
FOI 25-0431 LD–2025
23 pages
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The Department of Health released records documenting Indigenous Liaison Officer (ILO) positions within its People Branch from 2015 to May 2025. The disclosure includes staffing data showing the role evolved from Corporate Communications positions to positions focused on…
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HLTH
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Released
FOI 25-0231 LD IR
31 pages
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This FOI release contains internal Department of Health and Aged Care correspondence regarding a Meals on Wheels (MoW) feasibility study and the "Future Fit" program. The documents show communication between departmental officials and external service providers, including…
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Released
FOI 25-0348 LD–2025
83 pages
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This Senate Estimates brief documents the Department of Health and Aged Care's Future Fit project, established in 2021 to address viability concerns within Australia's Meals on Wheels (MoW) network under the new in-home aged care program. The project examined inconsistencies…
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HLTH
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Released
FOI 25-0368 LD–2025
43 pages
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This FOI release contains NHMRC correspondence and attachments from January 2025 regarding gender-affirming care policy coordination across Australian states and territories. A Department of Health official distributed a summary document to NHMRC and departmental colleagues…
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Released
FOI 25-0294 LD–2025
95 pages
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This National Cabinet paper from February 2021 provides a progress update on implementing recommendations from the National Review of Hotel Quarantine, conducted by A/Prof Jane Halton following National Cabinet's acceptance of the review on 23 October 2020. The document reports…
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HLTH
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Released
FOI 25-0351 LD–2025
25 pages
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This FOI release contains personal text messages between Department of Health staff members from February 6, 2025, discussing internal operational matters including transition meetings, staff scheduling, website issues, and data delivery timelines. The messages reference items…
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HLTH
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Released
FOI 25-0406 LD
1 page
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This FOI release contains a file note from Russell Herald, Assistant Secretary of the Home Support Operations Branch, documenting a meeting held on 29 November 2023 with an undisclosed party (redacted under section 11C). Herald reports that no issues were identified during the…
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HLTH
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Released
FOI 25-0335 LD
37 pages
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These documents relate to internal departmental communications regarding a ministerial reply on "Future fit meal services" within aged care. The released materials consist of automated task assignment notifications from the Parliamentary and Departmental Ministerial Services…
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HLTH
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Released
FOI 25-0271 LD
429 pages
PDF
The Department of Health released modelling documents analysing bulk billing incentive impacts on general practice services. The disclosure includes Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) service forecasts, bulk billing incentive (BBI) payment calculations, and financial impact…
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HLTH
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Released
FOI 25-0302 LD
44 pages
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The FOI release contains membership lists for the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Collaboration as of January 2023 and February 2025. The collaboration comprises jurisdictional representatives from all Australian states and territories plus the…
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HLTH
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Released
FOI 25-0299 LD
15 pages
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This FOI disclosure contains Australian Government briefing materials for the 2025 World Health Assembly, focusing on proposed WHO resolutions regarding breast-milk substitutes regulation. A finalised resolution led by Brazil, Mexico, and 15 other countries seeks to regulate…
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HLTH
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Released
FOI 25-0366 LD
461 pages
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This FOI release contains a comprehensive list of Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) contracted service providers and their 2020-21 funding allocations (excluding GST). The document lists approximately 98 pages of aged care and community support organisations across…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 25-0349 LD
119 pages
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This FOI release contains draft Senate Estimates Questions on Notice responses from November 2023 regarding aged care programs. Document 1 addresses communication with Meals on Wheels programs nationally, assigned to the Ageing and Aged Care Home and Residential division with…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 25-0267 LD IR
23 pages
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This FOI disclosure contains email correspondence from September 2023 between Department of Health officials and Meals on Wheels organisations regarding a feasibility study on meal delivery services. The emails reference discussions about study design and methodology with Meals…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 25-0286 LD
22 pages
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This disclosure contains correspondence from August-September 2023 regarding concerns raised by Meals on Wheels Victoria (MOWV) with Victorian MPs and Senators about funding disparities in Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) meal delivery services. MOWV highlighted that…
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HLTH
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Released
FOI 25-0225 LD IR
16 pages
PDF
Department of Health officials exchanged correspondence in March 2024 regarding an Open Care Tech announcement by the Future Fit Collective, an open-source software initiative for in-home aged care providers. Thea Connolly from Health expressed surprise at the announcement being…
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HLTH
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Released
FOI 25-0275 LD
35 pages
PDF
This FOI release contains a draft evidence review report commissioned by the Department of Health and Aged Care from Monash University's Evidence Review Service, prepared by researchers Paul Kellner, Angela Batson, Alex Waddell, and Stefan Kaufman. The document outlines a policy…
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HLTH
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Released
FOI 25-0311 LD MO
5 pages
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The disclosure comprises correspondence between Department of Health and Aged Care officials and The Saturday Paper regarding a contracted investigation into the Future Fit program delivery by Miles Morgan Australia (MMA). The journalist's inquiry raised concerns about whether…
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HLTH
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Released
FOI 25-0323 LD MO
27 pages
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This FOI release contains email correspondence from September 2024 between Department of Health and Aged Care officials, including staff from the Minister for Aged Care's office, and Jane Mussared, CEO of the Maggie Beer Foundation. The emails discuss scheduling an in-person…
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HLTH
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Released
FOI 25-0322 LD MO
5 pages
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This FOI release contains correspondence between The Saturday Paper journalist and the Department of Health and Aged Care regarding contracts with Miles Morgan Australia for the Future Fit program. The journalist's inquiry focuses on whether the department issued a $1.6 million…