Locutus Sum
Joined Right to Know in 2013
Just a girl who likes to write, and likes the law, and likes to write about the law.
Christmas Day 2018: I have returned after a long study absence. My English is now almost professional legal standard but not perfect. I understand most idioms but do not always produce them correctly.
I am just another user of Right to Know but I know a little bit about the Freedom of Information law in Australia. If you need any help with an application you can send me a message through Right to Know.
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This person's 599 annotations (page 12)
Privacy Act s 98 Information Commissioner Initiated Applications
Request to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by Verity Pane. Annotated by Locutus Sum on .
Partially successful.
I make this note only for a purpose to make something clear to other users of Right to Know. In the first email the applicant mentions "s 17 FOI reques...
Internet Censorship Blacklist
Refused.
The response is very helpful but it is wrong in an important way. It is helpful because it tells the applicant two things. 1. The agency does not have...
I think that I owe Mr Fairless an apology. If not an apology then at least an acknowledgement that his annotation (https://www.righttoknow.org.au/reque...
Cooks Cove Precinct Correspondence
Request to Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet by Lewis Godwin. Annotated by Locutus Sum on .
Refused.
By what authority did the agency deem the request to have been withdrawn? Maybe I do not know the Act well but I cannot see any power for the agency to...
Internet Censorship Blacklist
Refused.
I believe that the last documents to be released (https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Talk:Australian_government_secret_ACMA_internet_censorship_blacklist,_6_Au...
The response certainly does not meet the demands of the Freedom of Information Act. However, I am not sure that the ACTEWAGL is subject to the Act. To...
The applicant has cancelled the request but did not mark it on Right to Know as "withdrawn". I have marked it as refused because this is the best avail...
Unless the applicant has contacted the agency without Right to Know, then by force of s 24AB(7) of the FOI Act, the request will be taken to have been...
Refusal to Provide a Statement of Reasons
Request to Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority by Adam Presnell. Annotated by Locutus Sum on .
Refused.
It is now, I believe, beyond the power of the Information Commissioner to review any aspect of the request. The applicant might have requested IC revie...
1. Applicant writes with a request. The request comprises four parts. Part 1 is, in my opinion, incomprehensible and certainly not a valid request for...
Imagine that I use Right to Know to create an FOI request for the Department of Everything Else. I create the request on 1 January. I click all the cor...
In the annotation at this place ( https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/smit_property_investment_trust_l#comment-1823 ) I questioned the conclusion o...
I forgot to put something important (evidence!) in the annotation that I have made a few minutes ago.
A person can find the evidence that the Austral...
This is maybe another example of the refusal from the ATO to process Freedom of Information requests from Right to Know, but I think that it is actuall...
Customers recording interactions 104-07020060
Waiting clarification.
This comment is a repetition, in part, of a comment I made here: https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/ministerial_briefing_for_alan_tu#comment-1779...
The redactions from the document were of irrelevant material. For this reason I have marked the request as completely successful.
Metadata retention scheme exemption
Waiting clarification.
Note to the applicant: It might be helpful to consider whether you can introduce any criteria that would reduce the number of discovered documents. Pos...
The applicant, if I have understood the matter, wants reassurance that someone (Uber) is paying, or collecting, the tax that they should pay or collect...
Ms Chen: Although your last email is about revising your request, for a simple adminstrative reason, I I suggest that you do something different. From...
I have marked this request as having been refused by the Australian Federal Police. In fact, this is not exactly true in law but it is true in fact. Ho...
Refusal to Provide a Statement of Reasons
Request to Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority by Adam Presnell. Annotated by Locutus Sum on .
Refused.
I have followed several of the requests from Mr Presnell. It is not apparent why the requests so frequently contains threats and abuse.They are complet...
Year on year percentage pay increases for the Department's SES Band 3 officers for 2013/14 to 2014/15 and 2014/15 to 2015/16
Request to Department of Education, Skills and Employment by I Whittaker. Annotated by Locutus Sum on .
Refused.
So now your could request the internal review and push the attention of the review officer to s 17 of the Act and also to the guidance from the Inform...
Social Media policy
Awaiting internal review.
You cannot legitimately ask for an internal review. The reason for this is because your initial request was not valid. You are correct to say that your...
Use of private emails
Long overdue.
"The Parliament has amended the Parliamentary Service Act 1999 to confirm the intention of Parliament that all parliamentary departments are excluded f...
Adverse Experience Reporting 2,4-D and Metsulfuron Methyl
Request to Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority by Adam Presnell. Annotated by Locutus Sum on .
Partially successful.
I should have made a sense of slight uncertainty in my previous annotation about a deemed withdrawal not being revivable. I think (almost) certain in t...