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 474) (page 6)
FOI Delegations
Response by Minister Assisting on Queensland Floods Recovery to Ben Fairless on .
Withdrawn by the requester.
UNCLASSIFIED
Dear Mr Fairless
I refer to your below request which is directed to the Minister Assisting on Queensland Floods Recovery. No such Ministe...
UNCLASSIFIED
Dear Mr Fairless
I refer to your below request which is directed to the Minister for Justice. No such Minister exists. Given this, can yo...
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Dear Mr Fairless,
Please find below our response to your enquiry regarding FOI delegations.
ASIS is an 'exempt agency' under Division...
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 ;)
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Dear Mr Fairless
Please find attached the Australian Federal Police Delegations pursuant to section 23 of the Freedom of Information Act...
FOI Delegations
Response by Australian Security Intelligence Organisation to Ben Fairless on .
Refused.
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Good morning,
Thank you for your email to this organisation requesting information under the Freedom of Information Act...
That's correct.
Kind regards,
Debbie Gordon
General Counsel, Tourism Australia
T: +61 2 9361 1356 | E: [email address]
Office: Level 29 420 George S...
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Dear Mr Fairless
I refer to your email dated 14 November 2018. The Family Court of Australia is content to provide an administrative rele...
FOI Delegations
Response by Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority to Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
Dear Ben
In response to your request below, I attach ACARA’s administrative release
decision and the requested document.
Kind regards
...
FOI Delegations
Response by Department of Industry, Science, Energy & Resources to Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
Good afternoon Mr Fairless,
We refer to your email below of 14 November 2018.
The Department of Industry, Innovation and Science has agreed that the...
Dear Ben
The Minister for the Environment's Chief of Staff has authorisation to make decisions under the FOI Act.
As we have released this informati...
UNCLASSIFIED
Dear Mr Fairless
Thank you for your request.
Please refer to your request to the Attorney-General's Department
([1]https://...
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Dear Mr Fairless
Thank you for your request.
The Attorney-General's Department has decided to release the requested documents administr...
Dear Ben
Thank you for your email.
We advise that there are no FOI Authorisations currently in place for the Director of National Parks.
The Direct...
FOI Delegations
Response by Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Regulator to Ben Fairless on .
Refused.
Dear Ben
Thank you for your email.
While you have made your request on the Department of the Environment and Energy, the Water Efficiency Labelling a...
FOI Delegations
Response by Department of the Environment and Energy to Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
Dear Ben
Thank you for your email.
Attached, please find the Department of the Environment and Energy FOI authorisations.
As we have released this...
Dear Ben
Thank you for your email.
We advise that there are no FOI Authorisations currently in place for the Australian Heritage Council.
The Chair...
Dear Mr Fairless,
I refer to your email dated 14 November 2018.
Please find attached a copy of the current arrangement which gives lawyers at the Com...
FOI Delegations
Response by Australian Electoral Commission to Ben Fairless on .
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Fairless
I refer to your email dated 14 November 2018 11:51 PM in which you request
access to the instrument of authorisation issued by the...
Hi Ben
The Treasury's current FOI Authorisation document is publicly available. We are happy to provide this document to you as an administrative rele...
UNCLASSIFIED
Hi Ben
Please refer to your request to the Minister for Communications and the Arts (https://www.righttoknow.org.au/body/minister_for_c...
FOI Delegations
Response by Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre to Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
UNCLASSIFIED
Good afternoon Mr Fairless,
I have attached AUSTRAC's signed FOI authorisations document. I have provided this document to you administra...
UNCLASSIFIED
Dear Mr Fairless,
The Court has decided to release the documents requested administratively
rather than through the formal proces...
FOI Delegations
Response by Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Industry to Ben Fairless on .
Refused.
Dear Mr Fairless,
We acknowledged receipt of the 6 requests in the FOI inbox of the
Department of Industry, Innovation and Science (the departme...
Dear Mr Fairless
I refer to your email dated 14 November 2018 seeking a copy of the current
FOI Delegations.
Please find attached a copy of th...
This person's 341 annotations (page 6)
The Information Commissioner has made a formal recommendation to the ATO to start processing to Freedom of Information requests made via Right to Know....
Squat toilets at the ATO
Partially successful.
The Information Commissioner has made a formal recommendation to the ATO to start processing to Freedom of Information requests made via Right to Know....
Policies and documents pertaining to the protection of information incase of societal upheaval
Refused.
The Information Commissioner has made a formal recommendation to the ATO to start processing to Freedom of Information requests made via Right to Know....
Information in relation to the decision can be found here: https://www.openaustraliafoundation.org.au/2017/05/11/a-great-win-for-right-to-know-foi-and-...
My car sustained damage in police pursuit
Long overdue.
Hey there Jerry,
Locutus is here (voluntarily) as a member of the Right to Know community. She helps answer questions about FOI and has greatly infor...
The ABC is based in NSW (their Head office is in Ultimo). This would make the due date close of business on Tuesday.
Rhys Cauzzo
Long overdue.
I've had a look at this request and googled the person in question. I think this is about the decision to release the personal information of a welfare...
Wildlife rangers
Successful.
Hi There!
In Victoria, if you want to make a formal FOI request it's possible for the council to charge a $27.90 fee to do so plus the cost of proces...
Minutes of meetings of the SA Research Advisory Committee re: finfish aquaculture, multi-trophic aquaculture, nutrient loading and/or cuttlefish
Request to Fisheries Research and Development Corporation by Dan Monceaux. Annotated by Ben Fairless on .
Refused.
I've emailed FRDC's IT team to see if we can get this fixed.
Minutes of meetings of the SA Research Advisory Committee re: finfish aquaculture, multi-trophic aquaculture, nutrient loading and/or cuttlefish
Request to Fisheries Research and Development Corporation by Dan Monceaux. Annotated by Ben Fairless on .
Refused.
I've tried to re-send this request. If it bounces again, I'll see if we can get in touch with FRDC. Apologies for the delay it's taken to get to this....
This request was set to "Delvery Failure" but there was no failure in the delivery of the messages - the ATO simply refused to process the request.
Applications to register to vote by people under the voting age
Partially successful.
It doesn't stop the AEC from answering the persons questions. It just means they aren't legally obliged to. Which means they could be a Good Government...
Remuneration of all Australia Post Employees
Partially successful.
The decision here is fundamentally flawed. If the FOI Officer is able to provide the information she has provided, then the information must exist!
S...
Magdalene Catholic High School IT administrators password and username
Information not held.
Interesting idea, but I doubt this request will be successful:
- Passwords aren't in a readable format, they are normally encrypted, and they shouldn'...
Waiver of Privacy Act Personal Information Disclosure Certificate - Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Digital Readiness and Other Measures) Bill 2016 -
Request to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by Verity Pane. Annotated by Ben Fairless on .
Refused.
The OAIC are, in most cases, the gold standard for responses to FOI requests. They may even offer to release the Information outside of the Act if requ...
Personal information release
Refused.
Hi UD,
This request would normally be hidden because it's a request for information, but that could be avoided if you excluded the actual personal in...
Freedom of Information from complaint : CMPLNT 0007823
Withdrawn by the requester.
Generally speaking, personal information about someone who made an anonymous complaint won't be released as it would interfere with the other persons p...
ATO IT outages Feb 2016=7
Refused.
The OpenAustralia Foundation (the charity that looks after Right to Know) has published a blog post in relation to the response from the ATO;: https://...
Reports and systems information for Centrelink debt management 107-02060000
Waiting clarification.
You Just need to click "Reply" and send a reply..... annotations aren't sent to the authority I'm afraid - Ben
Telephone apps.
Awaiting internal review.
Also, my.gov.au is run by the department of human services, not Communications. You could ask them: https://www.righttoknow.org.au/new/dhs
Telephone apps.
Awaiting internal review.
Hey Alan,
Ben here - I'm a volunteer on this site.
The department of Communications probably doesn't monitor apps that are available to turn on/off...
Corporate Plan and Evaluation Plan
Long overdue.
Looks like we had an old email address for the FOI team, but the email was still accepted. Quite odd.
I've updated the address and resent all reques...
Social media policy
Successful.
Looks like we had an old email address for the FOI team, but the email was still accepted. Quite odd.
I've updated the address and resent all reques...
FoI Disclosure Log
Withdrawn by the requester.
Looks like we had an old email address for the FOI team, but the email was still accepted. Quite odd.
I've updated the address and resent all reques...
Final report of the "Waterproofing Eastern Adelaide" Feasibility Study
Request to Department of Agriculture and Water Resources by Dan Monceaux. Annotated by Ben Fairless on .
Refused.
I sent this information to Dan at 7am over the weekend, and am publishing it here for transparency:
I’m quite shocked by that figure - normally they...