The best way to get an answer is to call the HR person. After emailing once quite some time ago and never getting a response, I decided on calling to get answers I required. The woman was helpful and answered everything I needed. She also said she was very "under-resourced" so I suspect she has lots of unread emails in her inbox...
The human resources human dealing with recruiting more human resources is under resourced with humans. That tells you everything you need to know about A$A.