Daniel O'Connor
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This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 4)
Correspondance involving the word mural
Response by City of Port Adelaide Enfield to Daniel O'Connor on .
Waiting clarification.
Hello Daniel
Thank you for your email and preliminary FOI application.
In order to assist you further, I will need to obtain some furth...
Cyclist "metre matters" laws - enforcement statistics/guidance
Response by South Australia Police to Daniel O'Connor on .
Long overdue.
Hello
All requests for access to SAPOL documents are made by completing a PD360 Application for Access to SAPOL Records form, available from the SA P...
Annoyingly, I should have responded to this in more detail. It was clear that "match the keywords" in the original request immediately makes the refusa...
Copy of advice regarding access to Curtin Detention Centre
Response by Department of Home Affairs to Daniel O'Connor on .
Partially successful.
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Dear Mr O'Connor
I sent my decision at 4.26pm yesterday, 8 December 2014. It does not appear to have arrived so I am resending. Please s...
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Ministerial Diary for July 2014
Long overdue.
Worth following this up again given the recent court orders re AG diary being resolved?
Request for mobile communications via mobile applications
Waiting clarification.
https://www.dpmc.gov.au/who-we-are/the-department
Its weird that the deputy prime minister is not considered part of the "Cabinet" part of "DPMC"....
Corruption risk
Long overdue.
"Your request via a web page is not a valid FOI request in South Australia so is unable to be processed as such"
From the relevant SA legislation:...
Correspondence related to Right to Know
Request to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by Ben Fairless. Annotated by Daniel O'Connor on .
Successful.
It's interesting that the ATO's position is
> The administrators of the RTK website are themselves very difficult to contact. It appears that
the we...
At this point, it's likely the agency will simply try to ignore you.
I would suggest making a complaint as per https://www.oaic.gov.au/freedom-of-inf...
Annoyingly, I should have responded to this in more detail. It was clear that "match the keywords" in the original request immediately makes the refusa...
This might not be suitable as an FOI request. Recommend you close this in favour of https://www.immi.gov.au/Visas/Pages/804.aspx
Maximum disclosure principle of FOI legislation
Request to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by Ha. Annotated by Daniel O'Connor on .
Partially successful.
You may be interested in reading the OAIC's guidance to agencies - http://www.oaic.gov.au/freedom-of-information/applying-the-foi-act/foi-guidelines/ -...
FOI request for contract regarding CMO039650
Successful.
That's pretty darned sneaky of them to start omitting all but payment by post.
The DIBP and others have previously provided electronic banking inform...
Percentage of Australians with criminal record
Information not held.
You might be better off asking for documents mentioning the number of australians with criminal record(s); or number of offenses/year; etc - if a docum...
Prime Minister gift of tie and bike to museum
Successful.
Is there an issue report/pull request for the changed email?
Relevant other extracts:
http://www.oaic.gov.au/freedom-of-information/applying-the-foi-act/foi-guidelines/part-3-processing-requests-for-access
Th...
Well that's not an internal review!
Maybe even cut it down to a single document (business case), minus appendixes, approximate budget/costs, timelines, etc.
Though obviously not for a m...
It may be worth narrowing the scope to only the initial documents (ie: proposal, business case, etc) and narrowing the timeframe.
Documents relating to Senate Order 330
Information not held.
This is pretty odd; the original foi request and the link sent to this rtk page clearly indicate the specific content and what it refers to: official d...
Total amount of criminal convictions held by QUEENSLAND POLICE SERVICE employees .
Request to Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity by scott. Annotated by Daniel O'Connor on .
Waiting clarification.
You might want to try to reword this; as if they don't have a document detailing this they can refuse to create one.
Often it helps to be very specif...
Documents and correspondence in relation to Michael Cordover and Matthew Landauer
Information not held.
So the implications of this:
- hallway discussions/meetings without notes were had
- emails submitted were printed and carried about physically; but...
FOI14139 Decision
Successful.
Not entirely applicable in this instance as it's not the original request, but it would be interesting to see the consequences of a request for a docum...
List of attendees and documents from official briefing on May 27th 2014
Information not held.
If there's no document that references who attended the meeting; how did any of the particpants know when, where or why to attend?
Happy to chip in a few $ to remove the cost as a barrier.
We should really flesh these requests out with 'what your it department should have documented ie in log files', and preempt the ddos misunderstanding...
Copy of advice regarding access to Curtin Detention Centre
Partially successful.
@Ben, I'm happy to extend them extra time.
I do find it interesting that the minister can request this and get advice in a relatively short period in...
Most reasonable question this asks; which I'm sure you are asking as well: by knowing the IP address through which the government is accessing the inte...
Documents & procedures relating to the operation, backup and disaster recovery of the EasyCount Senate software application
Partially successful.
Additionally, you may wish to draw the FOI responder to the OAIC's guidance in processing requests
http://www.oaic.gov.au/freedom-of-information/appl...