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) (page 4)
Dear Mr Fairless
Thank you for your request to the Department of Health (Department) of 14
November 2018 seeking access under the Freedom of Inf...
Dear Mr Fairless,
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Dear Mr Fairless,
Thank you for your request.
The Department of Social Services and the Minister for Families and Social
Services have dec...
Dear Mr Fairless,
Thank you for your request.
The Department of Social Services and the Minister for Families and Social
Services have dec...
Dear Mr Fairless,
Thank you for your request.
The Department of Social Services and the Minister for Families and Social
Services have dec...
Dear Mr Fairless
Thank you for your freedom of information request.
You indicated in your request to the department, dated 14 November 2018...
Dear Mr Fairless
I refer to your freedom of information request directed to the Minister of
Human Services and Digital Transformation, the Hon M...
FOI Delegations
Response by Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority to Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Fairless,
Please see the attached in response to your below request.
Kind regards,
ASADA FOI
[email address]
Australian Government
Australi...
UNCLASSIFIED
Dear Mr Fairless,
Thank you for your emails to the Department of Finance and Minister for
Finance seeking copies of FOI delegatio...
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Dear Mr Fairless,
Thank you for your emails to the Department of Finance and Minister for
Finance seeking copies of FOI delegatio...
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Dear Mr Fairless,
Thank you for your emails to the Department of Finance and Minister for
Finance seeking copies of FOI delegatio...
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Dear Mr Fairless,
Thank you for your emails to the Department of Finance and Minister for
Finance seeking copies of FOI delegatio...
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Dear Mr Fairless,
Thank you for your emails to the Department of Finance and Minister for
Finance seeking copies of FOI delegatio...
FOI Delegations
Response by Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Finance to Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
UNCLASSIFIED
Dear Mr Fairless,
Thank you for your emails to the Department of Finance and Minister for
Finance seeking copies of FOI delegatio...
UNCLASSIFIED
Dear Mr Fairless,
Thank you for your emails to the Department of Finance and Minister for
Finance seeking copies of FOI delegatio...
UNCLASSIFIED
Dear Mr Fairless,
Please find attached the decision in relation to your recent FOI request.
Yours sincerely,
FOI Offic...
FOI Delegations
Response by Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development to Ben Fairless on .
Information not held.
Dear Mr Fairless,
Thank you for your email below. We have made enquiries with the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure...
UNCLASSIFIED
Good afternoon Mr Fairless,
You can find the Department of Defence Instrument of Authority here http://www.defence.gov.au/foi/Docs/FOI-D...
FOI Delegations
Response by Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission to Ben Fairless on .
Information not held.
UNCLASSIFIED
Dear Mr Fairless,
I refer to your correspondence dated 14 November 2018, seeking the
following information:
...
FOI Delegations
Response by Department of Agriculture and Water Resources to Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Fairless,
Please see attached the relevant instrument of authorisation disclosed to you via administrative release.
If you have any queries,...
FOI Delegations
Response by Assistant Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development to Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Fairless
Thank you for your email below. We have enquired with the Office of the Assistant Minister for Regional Development and Territories...
FOI Delegations
Follow up sent to Australian Institute of Family Studies by Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
Thanks for that, much appreciated!
Yours sincerely,
Ben Fairless
FOI Delegations
Response by Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet to Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
UNCLASSIFIED
Dear Mr Fairless
You have indicated below that you are happy to receive the documents, that you are seeking access to, outside the Freedo...
FOI Delegations
Response by Minister for the Public Service and Integrity to Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
UNCLASSIFIED
Dear Mr Fairless
The list of the Current Ministry (as at 28 August 2018) is available online at https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/P...
FOI Delegations
Response by Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on Digital Productivity to Ben Fairless on .
Withdrawn by the requester.
UNCLASSIFIED
Dear Mr Fairless
The list of the Current Ministry (as at 28 August 2018) is available online at https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/P...
This person's 338 annotations (page 4)
Non-ASL public service staff
Information not held.
There was a delay in the above response being attached to this request. The Department did not respond using the correct email address which caused the...
Emails by [Name Removed at the request of the Department]
Request to Department of Industry, Science, Energy & Resources by Alby P.. Annotated by Ben Fairless on .
Refused.
Right to Know has been contacted by the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources in relation to this request.
We have hidden the names...
Disclosures of Interests from the Entrepreneurs' Programme Committee meeting held on 11/12/2019
Request to Department of Industry, Science, Energy & Resources by Witherspoon. Annotated by Ben Fairless on .
Awaiting classification.
Right to Know has been contacted by the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources in relation to this request.
We have hidden the names...
Contractor correspondence [Name Removed at the request of the Department]
Request to Department of Industry, Science, Energy & Resources by Denis Jakota. Annotated by Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
Right to Know has been contacted by the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources in relation to this request.
We have hidden the names...
The only people who can hide or annotate requests are people who either volunteer for or are employed by the charity that looks after Right to Know....
Statistical data on NBN FOI teams
Refused.
To answer the question from NBNCo, the status we display is determined by the requester. In this case, the requester has marked the request as refused....
APSC produced document for the IPA
Partially successful.
Right to Know has been contacted by the Australian Public Service Commission in relation to this request.
We have hidden the names of 3 public servan...
Animal Registraton
Information not held.
For the observant, you will notice that the above timeline might be out of order.
A response on the 10th of October was delivered to an invalid addre...
Julian Assange
Waiting clarification.
Hi There!
In order to make a valid request, you have to mention in your message what you are looking for.
if you click "Write a reply" you could po...
Weekly agenda format - September
Waiting clarification.
Few Points I would make:
1. It's assumed that if someone is making a request on Right to Know, they are requesting under Freedom of Information. The...
I've updated this request to indicate it's been moved from PMC to NIAA.
Documents relating to DVA FOI 24434 / OAIC RQ18/02960 and any communication between Carl English and the DVA related to my FOIs
Request to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by Julie. Annotated by Ben Fairless on .
Long overdue.
We have hidden the most recent response as the OAIC have claimed that the response was sent in error.
I've decided to stop replies and comments on this request. The requestor is not using our site to make a request but rather copying the Right to Know e...
I know you don't want it to be transferred and you've made that point really clear on this request. I've simply updated the request to indicate that it...
The Department has reached out to the volunteers at Right to Know to advise that this request has been transferred to the NBN Co.
I've updated this r...
An annotation was removed from this request as a member of the community reported that it could contain potentially defamatory content.
Annotations o...
All correspondence related to the change of use of the toilet block at Beldon Park Gradient Way 2014
Handled by postal mail.
Hi Nick,
If you have any issues with a request, there is a "Report this request" link on the right hand side of the request.
I've updated the statu...
TITLE: First Local Housing Strategy REPORT
Handled by postal mail.
I've set the status of this request to "Gone Postal" as we don't have the information from the Authority.
The above email has been hidden at the request of the Decision Maker, who's signature appears within an attachment.
The response is provided below:...
Research funding for Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.
Request to National Health and Medical Research Council by Asher Wolf. Annotated by Ben Fairless on .
Long overdue.
The agency is being a touch pedantic. Any request made using Right to Know puts "Freedom of Information Request" in the subject. This makes it clear th...
Compliments of FOI disclosure log
Information not held.
The Department says they didn't get the request, so I've resent it at their request.
FOI Delegations
Request to Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency by Ben Fairless. Annotated by Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
Well you learn something new every day. I wasn't aware of this weird quirk with the AHPRA - I presumed that they were subject to the Act in the same wa...
I don’t think I pursued this any further to be honest.
You’re welcome to make the same or similar request if you wanted ;)
It is possible to use our site for FOI - All we do is email the request to the FOI officer in any event.
Very poor form from the FOI officer in this...
The Email address provided by the Department is enquiries@classification.gov.au