11 August 2025
Ref: DOIA-REQ-0015763-Felix Lee
Felix Lee
Email:
[FYI request #31244 email]
Tēnā koe Felix Lee
Thank you for your email of 7 June 2025 to the Ministry of Business, Innovafion and Employment (MBIE)
requesfing, under the Official Informafion Act 1982 (the Act), the fol owing informafion:
I would like to request all documents related to the HMAS Canberra radar interference incident of
June 4.
On 7 July 2025, MBIE nofified you of an extension to the fimeframe for response unfil 11 August 2025.
MBIE has decided to grant your request. However, it wil take us some fime to process and prepare the
informafion for release. We wil send you the informafion as soon as it is ready and without undue delay.
We have also decided that some of the informafion requested may be withheld under the fol owing
secfions of the Act:
6(a), to prejudice the security or defence of New Zealand or the international relations of the
Government of New Zealand;
6(b)(i), to prejudice the entrusting of information to the Government of New Zealand on a basis
of confidence by the Government of any other country or any agency of such a Government; and,
9(2)(a), to protect the privacy of natural persons.
I do not consider that the withholding of this informafion is outweighed by public interest considerafions
in making the informafion available.
We expect to be able to provide you with this informafion by 15 August 2025.
If you wish to discuss any aspect of your request or this response, or if you require any further assistance,
please contact
[email address].
You have the right to seek an invesfigafion and review by the Ombudsman of this decision. Informafion
about how to make a complaint is available a
t www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone 0800 802
602.
Nāku noa, nā
Daniel O’Grady
Manager, Radio Spectrum Management Policy and Planning
Communicafions, Infrastructure and Trade
MBIE1376631