Australian Financial Conduct Authority & the FIO Act
Phillip Sweeney made this Freedom of Information request to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
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Dear Office of the Australian Information Commissioner,
The Australian Financial Conduct Authority (AFCA) has just commenced operation.
It appears that this Authority is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cth).
The documents I seek are any documents in the possession of the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner that relate to the AFCA and which would establish why the AFCA is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cth).
Yours faithfully,
Phillip Sweeney
Ben Fairless left an annotation ()
Whoops, sorry the AFCA doesn’t have the same abn but the FOS website was updated to use the AFCA’s ABN on its footer.
Of note, the AFCA website is actually owned by the Australian Film Critics Association.......
Phillip Sweeney left an annotation ()
Thank You Ben
The Superannuation Complaints Tribunal which has been rolled into the AFCA was subject to the FIO Act and I was able to use the Act to discover that fabricated evidence had been lodged with the Tribunal in relation to my complaint and another member of the same superannuation fund by the trustee of the fund.
Even though it is a criminal offence for a trustee to lodge fabricated evidence with the Tribunal, the Chairperson of the Tribunal refused to press charges and refused to revisit determinations that had been obtained by fraud.
No doubt this 'fraud on the Tribunal' is why the AFCA was not established as a government Tribunal.
A complete con on the Australian Public by Scott Morrison looking after his banker mates.
Regards
Philip Sweeney
Our reference: FOIREQ18/00181
Dear Mr Sweeney
Freedom of Information request
I refer to your request for access to documents made under the Freedom of
Information Act 1982 (Cth) (the FOI Act) and received by the Office of the
Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) on 4 November 2018.
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any documents in the possession of the Office of the Australian
Information Commissioner that relate to the AFCA [Australian Financial
Conduct Authority] and which would establish why the AFCA is not subject
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Dear Mr Sweeney,
Please find attached correspondence in relation to your FOI request.
Regards,
Amanda Nowland
[1]O A I C logo Amanda Nowland | Senior
Lawyer
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Office of the Australian
Information Commissioner
GPO Box 5218 Sydney NSW 2001 |
oaic.gov.au
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Ben Fairless left an annotation ()
This is a really easy question to answer - it’s not subject to the FOI Act because it’s not a government agency. In Fact, it has the same ABN as the Financial Ombudsman Service had.