Ben Fairless
Joined Right to Know in 2013
I work for the OpenAustralia Foundation. I used to use this account when I was administering the site however now I use this account just to make requests and to provide suggestions to people.
All my requests are made in a personal capacity, and not on behalf of Right to Know, the OpenAustralia Foundation, or any other organisation unless specifically indicated.
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This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 470)
Protest Actions at Australian Airports from August 2024 to September 2024
Response by Australian Federal Police to Ben Fairless on .
Awaiting classification.
OFFICIAL
Dear Mr Fairless
Thank you for your below email.
My apologies for the confusion. I have been liaised with the relevant operational area and...
Number of “Notice of Intention to consider Cancellation” issued related to Rideshare
Follow up sent to Department of Home Affairs by Ben Fairless on .
Information not held.
Thank you for your email. I will be sending an email from [email address] with the relevant information.
Yours sincerely,
Ben Fairless
TOP SECRET-Privileged Access Standard
Response by Department of Home Affairs to Ben Fairless on .
Refused.
Dear Mr Fairless
Freedom of Information Request FOI24/458
I refer to your request to the Attorney-General's Department (the
department) un...
Here's the back story:
https://www.oaf.org.au/2017/01/25/right-to-know-ato-oaic/
Worth pointing out they have been doing this since 2016.
Documents related to portrait of Ms Gina Rinehart
Response by National Gallery of Australia to Ben Fairless on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Ben Fairless
Please see attached the balance of documents (documents 27 and 33) regarding your FOI request.
We would be grateful if you could ac...
Documents related to portrait of Ms Gina Rinehart
Response by National Portrait Gallery of Australia to Ben Fairless on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Mr Fairless
Please find attached decision letter and associated documents regarding
your FOI request: NPGAFOI202404.
Kind regards
F...
Operational information portal - robots.txt file
Response by Services Australia to Ben Fairless on .
Information not held.
Dear Mr Fairless
Please find attached a decision dated 23 August 2024 in relation to your
request for internal review under the Freedom of Infor...
Informal Release Request: Document related to requests from Right to Know
Response by University of Melbourne to Ben Fairless on .
Refused.
Hi Ben,
Please find attached acknowledgement of your request. Action is required by you by Friday 6 September, 2024.
Regards,
FOI Team
16 August 20...
SSL security on bom.gov.au website
Refused.
According to https://whynohttps.com/country/au it's the number one website in Australia that doesn't load securely. Kind of poor if you don't mind me s...
Operational Blueprint Documents - Initial Contact & POI
Response by Services Australia to Ben Fairless on .
Partially successful.
Dear Ben
Please find attached the decision letter and documents relating to your
request for access to documents held by Services Australia, und...
Process by which information is published to the Operational information website
Response by Services Australia to Ben Fairless on .
Partially successful.
Dear Ben Fairless
Please find attached the decision letter and documents relating to your
request for access to documents held by Services Austr...
Nmdaka Dalai Australis
Response by Family Court of Australia to Ben Fairless on .
Awaiting classification.
OFFICIAL
Dear Ben Fairless
I refer to your correspondence of 17 July 2024 addressed to the Family Court of Australia and the response sent to you on 2...
Nmdaka Dalai Australis
Response by Federal Court of Australia to Ben Fairless on .
Withdrawn by the requester.
OFFICIAL
Dear Mr Fairless
Thank you for your email.
Kind regards
FOI Officer
Federal Court of Australia
Optus for contact centre management services
Response by Services Australia to Ben Fairless on .
Withdrawn by the requester.
Thank you for contacting the Freedom of Information (FOI) team in Services
Australia (the Agency).
This email acknowledges your correspondence a...
Dear Mr Fairless,
Thank you for your response.
We confirm that the authorisation applies both to the initial FOI
requests, and to the inte...
Letter from Senator Dean Smith and response
Response by Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection to Ben Fairless on .
Waiting clarification.
OFFICIAL
OFFICIAL
Good morning Mr Fairless,
I have let the Minister's office know you are seeking an update on this request.
Thanks
Emily
Fre...
Documents related to FOI 23-24/072
Response by Department of Finance to Ben Fairless on .
Partially successful.
OFFICIAL
Dear Mr Fairless,
Please find attached a decision letter and the documents released to you
as a result of your FOI request (our r...
Ref: FOI30/129
Dear Ben Fairless,
1. We refer to our email (and attached consultation notice) dated 20
March 2024, and our previous corre...
gov.au 2LD Registrar - List of registered domain names
Response by Department of Finance to Ben Fairless on .
Refused.
OFFICIAL
Good afternoon Mr Fairless,
Thank you for your request for an internal review of Finance’s decision on
19 January 2024 relating t...
Social media - no longer, responding to queries via @ASIC_Connect
Follow up sent to Australian Securities and Investments Commission by Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
Thank you for your reply which answers my questions. Happy to consider this request resolved.
Yours sincerely,
Ben Fairless
Dear Ben,
Find attached correspondence for your attention.
Regards,
Freedom of Information Team
Australia Post
Australia Post is...
Correspondence with AustRoads about request for information about NEVDIS
Response by Access Canberra to Ben Fairless on .
Refused.
OFFICIAL
Good afternoon,
Please see the attached decision letter relating to your recent Freedom of
Information request.
Regards
Freedom o...
NEVDIS User Guide
Response by Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications to Ben Fairless on .
Information not held.
OFFICIAL
Good afternoon
I refer to your request below for access to documents under the Freedom of
Information Act 1982 (FOI Act).
P...
Dear Mr Fairless,
NEVDIS has appointed a third party contractor to set-up an official API
gateway to their database.
The Contractor is Bl...
Good morning Mr Fairless,
Thank you for your response back to me, I have now withdrawn your request.
Regards
Narelle Hurkala
A/ Coordinator Freedom...
This person's 338 annotations
Here's the back story:
https://www.oaf.org.au/2017/01/25/right-to-know-ato-oaic/
Worth pointing out they have been doing this since 2016.
JJJ Breakfast Hitler
Awaiting classification.
Interested to see how the ABC processes this request… As technically the information you’re asking for is exempt as it relates to program material. Tha...
Number of FOI requests last financial year
Successful.
As a suggestion, you may want to ask the OAIC for a copy of all of the NDA submissions through their FOIStats portal.
https://www.oaic.gov.au/freedo...
SSL security on bom.gov.au website
Refused.
According to https://whynohttps.com/country/au it's the number one website in Australia that doesn't load securely. Kind of poor if you don't mind me s...
Boundry fences
Long overdue.
I would reply to the authority (you can do this by clicking Actions > Write a Reply) and ask them if they can process this request as an informal acces...
Information on NSW medical intern hospital position allocation
Request to Health Education and Training Institute NSW (HETI) by C. F.. Annotated by Ben Fairless on .
Awaiting classification.
We have now got a valid email address for HETI! I have re-sent the request through the website.
They were a bit confused about who we were, but hopef...
Information on NSW medical intern hospital position allocation
Request to Health Education and Training Institute NSW (HETI) by C. F.. Annotated by Ben Fairless on .
Awaiting classification.
We have reached out to HETI to try and get a valid email address, as the one listed on their website clearly isn't correct.
Sydney Metro Opening Date
Awaiting classification.
In theory, you could ask if it's possible to make an "Informal Access Request".
Partnerships with nuclear weapons companies
Long overdue.
Well this feels dodgy - all that Deakin University needed to do was correspond via the email address provided by Right to Know, however they have deman...
Council Policy on Using Privacy Act Jurisdiction / Powers
Awaiting classification.
We have written to Launceston City Council about some of the comments on this request, specifically those about not responding to requests made via Rig...
NALguide Pro
Awaiting classification.
All requests sent to Right to Know contain enough information to identify it as a FOI request. This is included in the footer of the email, as well as...
The easiest thing to do in this instance is reply to the authority, telling them you are happy for the information to be provided this way.
For some reason the authority decided to share the decision letter and documents via a SharePoint link instead of just replying to the email (which is...
NALguide Pro
Awaiting classification.
Generally speaking, if the agency makes something available for purchase then you can't get it under FOI. However I would be interested to see how Serv...
Conflict of Interest Register
Refused.
I've verified that this has gone to the correct email address for GIPA requests for the NSW Police - Not sure why they responded the way they did.
Welfare Fraud Integrity Campaign
Request to Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet by Dolebludger. Annotated by Ben Fairless on .
Refused.
So in this case, the Department has decided that they don't have enough information to process the request. You need to make a request asking for the d...
Stradford (a pseudonym) v Judge Vasta [2023] FCA 1020
Long overdue.
This note is left on this request at the request of Waldek. The only person who can respond to emails about this request is the person who made the ini...
Please provide the evidence relied upon to mandate covid 19 vaccines and boosters
Awaiting classification.
While frustrating, the QLD Police are technically correct - if you are making a formal RTI request, they are legally required to charge the application...
Minister for Transport documents regarding Sydney Metro Review
Awaiting classification.
There is a technical issue on Right to Know which is preventing the documents from being uploaded.
As a workaround, I have uploaded the documents her...
University research policies regarding self-experimentation
Information not held.
The email address provided above is research[.]ethics@ecu.edu.au (just remove the "[]"
Time of Incidents By Construction Worker
Withdrawn by the requester.
Hello,
I'm one of the workers who look after Right to Know.
Firstly, I want to apologise that it's taken us so long to look at the error message ab...
Post Master General
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Hello,
I'm one of the workers who look after Right to Know.
Firstly, I want to apologise that it's taken us so long to look at the error message ab...
BCG review
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Hello,
I'm one of the workers who look after Right to Know.
Firstly, I want to apologise that it's taken us so long to look at the error message ab...
Correspondence between Open Arms NAC members and BUPA Australia regarding tafenoquine and mefloquine veterans
Request to Veterans and Veterans Families Counselling Service by Stuart McCarthy. Annotated by Ben Fairless on .
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Hello,
I'm one of the workers who look after Right to Know.
Firstly, I want to apologise that it's taken us so long to look at the error message ab...
New South Wales statistics for CTP Insurance
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Hello,
I'm one of the workers who look after Right to Know.
Firstly, I want to apologise that it's taken us so long to look at the error message ab...