Disclosure log

Under the Freedom of Information Act 1982, ANU is required to publish a disclosure log on its website. The disclosure log lists documents which have been released in response to FOI access requests in accordance with the requirements of the FOI Act. For documents released from 1 January 2021, the disclosure log will contain the documents released under FOI. For access to documents released prior to 1 January 2021, please send an email to foi@anu.edu.au.

Agencies are required to publish details of documents released under the FOI Act within ten working days of an applicant being given access to the documents.

The disclosure log requirement does not apply to documents released under the FOI Act containing personal or business information that ANU considers would be unreasonable to publish.

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29 January 2025 202400176

I refer to the following ANU spokesperson statements made to news outlets:

Statement 1 - Professor Bells work with Intel Labs was disclosed in accordance with the ANU disclosure of interest framework, and was known by the council"
Statement 2 - The ANU council unanimously supported and actively encouraged the continuation of the arrangement which recognised Professor Bells world-leading technical expertise and experience and enhanced the reputation of ANU.
Referenced in the Australian Financial Review article at titled ANU council members say Bells second job was never mentioned and dated 20 Dec 2024, in the following excerpt

ANU originally told the Financial Review that Professor Bells work with Intel Labs was disclosed in accordance with the ANU disclosure of interest framework, and was known by the council.

When asked to clarify what was meant by was known by the council, a spokeswoman said: The ANU council unanimously supported and actively encouraged the continuation of the arrangement which recognised Professor Bells world-leading technical expertise and experience and enhanced the reputation of ANU.


Statement 3 - The statement(s) summarised by the article text "He said her role with Intel had been disclosed to the university council"
From the Australian Financial Review article at titled ANU leader double-dipped with $1.1m salary and big tech job and dated 10 Dec 2024 (and 11 Dec 2024), within the following excerpt

Professor Bell maintained a part-time paid position with Intel after leaving the company to join ANU in 2017, a spokesman told The Australian Financial Review on Tuesday.

The role was specifically with Intel Labs, a research division of Intel. This arrangement formally ceased on 15 November 2024.

The spokesman did not disclose the size of Professor Bells remuneration but said outside paid work was commonplace for academics. He said her role with Intel had been disclosed to the university council.


Statement 4 - "Professor Bell's work with Intel is no secret, the source of media reporting on this is the university's own website,"
Statement 5 - "The arrangement was disclosed through our conflict processes in the normal way and was known by the Council."
Referenced in the The Canberra Times article at titled Calls for ANU vice-chancellor to resign after second paid job revealed and dated 11 Dec 2024, in the following excerpt

A university spokeswoman said it was common for academics to work with external parties in their field of expertise.

"Professor Bell's work with Intel is no secret, the source of media reporting on this is the university's own website," she said.

"The arrangement was disclosed through our conflict processes in the normal way and was known by the Council."


Under the Freedom of Information Act 1982, I request:

For each statement referred to above, excluding Statement 4 - the document(s) which form the basis the statement was made on.

For Statement 4 - the specific pages on the "university's own website" which formed the basis the statement was made on (Reason: the "university's own website" is huge and includes pages irrelevant to the statement).

Please clearly indicate which statement each document corresponds to, or organize pages to group documents corresponding to the same statement together with appropriate headers.

29 January 2025 202400175

Under the Freedom of Information Act 1982, I request access to

 

Conflict of interest (potential, perceived or actual) declaration document(s) filed by or for by vice chancellor Genevieve Bell; and any other official document or record which document the conflict of interest declaration(s) made by the 51勛圖厙 Bell to the ANU council.

22 January 2025 202400174

The agenda and minutes of the ANU council meeting on 04 Oct 2024 and the ANU council meeting on 06 Dec 2024.

22 January 2025 202400172

The agenda and minutes for the out of session ANU council meeting on 2 Sep 2023 (or just Sep 2023 if that is not the exact date)

02 January 2025 202400096

"Our Changing Snowscapes" report prepared by Ruby Olsson, Robert Steiger (external consultant), Adrienne B Nicotra and Jamie Pittock on behalf of a commercial client (Protect Our Winters).
The full report is publicly available online:
The specific information I am seeking includes:
1. The project Statement of Requirements provided by the client (Protect Our Winters) to ANU.
2. The signed project contract.
3. Conflict of interest disclosures and approved conflict of interest management plans relating to this project.
4. The signed project sub-contract between ANU and the external consultant engaged to provide modelling services (Robert Steiger).
5. The statement of requirements provided by ANU to the external consultant engaged to provide modelling services (Robert Steiger).
6. All correspondence (including file attachments) between the authors (including the external consultant) and the client.
7. Record of permission to conduct informal interviews and include information obtained through informal interviews as deidentified evidence in the report.
8. Records of all correspondence with external stakeholders who were informally interviewed including the 22 instances where the citation pers comms is provided as the source of evidence and quotes included throughout the report, without identifying specifically who was engaged in communication.
9. Records of internal examination and academic scrutiny.
10. Records demonstrating author consideration of and compliance with ANUs risk management policy.
Date range for the documents being requested -01/01/2023-12/07/2024  

02 January 2025 202400137

The uncut/unmodified zoom recording of the all-staff address this morning (scheduled 9:30am, 3 Oct 2024, invitation sent out by Genevieve Bell, ), and the slide(s) presented during this webinar if this unmodified recording did not capture the screen share shared during the webinar.

Note: The unmodified recording is requested as the video linked on the Renew ANU site () has cut out the last few seconds of the webinar before the webinar was closed where Genevieve Bell could be seen doing a "cut" hand motion. The screen share shared during the webinar is also not shown in the linked video, nor have the slides shared during the webinar been separately uploaded.

02 January 2025 202400102

Invoices, receipts or any other document recording financial expenditure related to the hire of security personnel for the ANU Gaza Solidarity Encampment, including costs for external contractors, timesheets, offer letters, letters of engagement, payslips etc. Date range for the documents being requested-29 April 2024 - 23 July 2024 (inclusive)

02 January 2025 202400128

Any documents, emails, correspondence or information regarding building mould at the following ANU student residences from January 1, 2022 to September 30, 2024.

繚 Lena Karmel Lodge

Fenner Hall

This request includes but is not limited to:

繚 Any reports, email correspondence or orders for work to address dampness or building mould

繚 Complaints made about building mould

繚 Correspondence to residents or staff members about building mould 

繚 Any complaints, emails or documents regarding sickness among residents or students which is associated with building mould

Any documents, emails, correspondence or information regarding a media request made by Lanie Tindale at The Canberra Times on May 27, from May 27 to May 28. The media request is about mould at ANU student residences.

29 November 2024 202400130

I request all documents held by the above offices (O51勛圖厙, DoS, D51勛圖厙(A)) relating to the review of ANUSA Governance.

 

The date range should be from 1 May 2024 to the present day.

30 October 2024 202400135

Under the Freedom of Information Act 1982, I request access to copies of the following documents: 
All reports pretaining to the 'benchmarking exercise' referred to in the Australian National 51勛圖厙's public communication relating to 2025 parking fee increases, in addition to any key reports/documents containing recommendations for setting/determining the proposed 2025 ANU parking rates. 

Date range for the documents being requested
1st July 2023 to 2nd October 2024