Online Accommodation Services
Dear Australian Communications and Media Authority,
Could you please send through the latest documents that include the following:
1. Statistics of the number of online services for accommodation in NSW in 2017.
2. Statistics of the number of local students using online accommodation services to look for accommodation in NSW from 2017 until now.
3. Statistics of the number of international students using online accommodation services to look for accommodation in NSW from 2017 until now.
4. The rules and regulations set for online accommodation services to operate in NSW as of 2018 or the latest amendment.
If possible, please treat this as an administrative/informal request. Otherwise, please proceed with my request as a formal information request under the Act.
Yours faithfully,
Nicole Joy.
Dear Nicole
Thank you for your email dated 21 May 2018, in which you requested access to ‘the latest documents that include the following:
1. Statistics of the number of online services for accommodation in NSW in 2017.
2. Statistics of the number of local students using online accommodation services to look for accommodation in NSW from 2017 until now.
3. Statistics of the number of international students using online accommodation services to look for accommodation in NSW from 2017 until now.
4. The rules and regulations set for online accommodation services to operate in NSW as of 2018 or the latest amendment.’
The ACMA is responsible for the regulation of broadcasting, radiocommunications, telecommunications and some aspects of the internet, in accordance with the functions and responsibilities set out in Part 2, Division 2 of the Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005.
Although the ACMA does have some limited functions in respect of online content, it does not collect statistics on page information, page views or users generally. I also note that the ACMA is a Commonwealth regulator, and as such is not responsible for NSW specific regulation.
You asked that, if possible, we should treat this as an administrative/informal request; or, otherwise, to deal with it as a formal information request under the Freedom of Information Act 1982. As your request does not relate to any of the functions performed by the ACMA, and the ACMA therefore does not possess any documents requested by you, the ACMA has treated your request as an informal request, and will be taking no further action.
Sincerely
ACMA FOI Coordinators
Dear ACMA FOI Coordinators,
Thank you for the reply.
Could you please point me to the right authority that would have these statistics?
Thank you.
Yours sincerely,
Nicole Joy.
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Sent a follow up to Australian Communications and Media Authority again.
Hi Nicole
We're not aware of any Commonwealth (or other) agency that would collect those statistics. The website for the Australian Bureau of Statistics (http://www.abs.gov.au/) has a range of publicly accessible statistics, but we're not aware of them collecting the information that you are seeking.
(Apologies if this response is duplicated, but there seem to have been some difficulties with other attempts to respond to your email.)
Kind regards
FOI Coordinator
Hi Nicole
We're not aware of any Commonwealth (or other) agency that would collect those statistics. The website for the Australian Bureau of Statistics (http://www.abs.gov.au/) has a range of publicly accessible statistics, but we're not aware of them collecting the information that you are seeking.
Kind regards
FOI Coordinator
Hi Nicole
We're not aware of any Commonwealth (or other) agency that would collect those statistics. The website for the Australian Bureau of Statistics (http://www.abs.gov.au/) has a range of publicly accessible statistics, but we're not aware of them collecting the information that you are seeking.
(Apologies if this is duplicated, there seems to have been some issue with the first attempt to send.)
Kind regards
FOI Coordinator