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 21)
Carbon Tax distribution
Request to Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet by Chris Pirina. Annotated by Locutus Sum on .
Waiting clarification.
In the current form of the request it will be refused, almost with certainty. If it is not refused, it will be said that in the current form it is inva...
A handful of requests to the Australian Broadcasting Commission have been made since only a short time. Most of them will probably fail, this one inclu...
Australia's Worst White-Collar Crime
Request to Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet by Phillip Sweeney. Annotated by Locutus Sum on .
Long overdue.
To say it at the beginning, in my mind it is most desirable that all agencies should make disclosed documents available for downloading from their webs...
Yes, I have ideas to inform but not, unfortunately, to help.
It is worthwhile to say that it is not unusual in western democracies for government depa...
Impersonating a Trustee
Successful.
It will not be a surprise if the Taxation Office must ask for a restriction of the range or scope of the request. The current manner of the address pro...
Australia's Worst White-Collar Crime
Request to Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet by Phillip Sweeney. Annotated by Locutus Sum on .
Long overdue.
The applicant has been successful in his request and wishes to make more widely available the documents to which he has obtained access. He asks the ag...
I accidentally omitted something from my annotation.
Ms Lystich said in her email from 15 Jan, "this email is not a FOI request". That is correct. Th...
I have written already today about how the Right to Know website is used. This annotation is the second.
Ms Lystich mentions the purpose of the Right...
Australia's Worst White-Collar Crime
Successful.
This application from Mr Sweeney is one of a series. Does it represent an honorable use of Right to Know? Do the other requests represent honourable us...
It is a very strange reply from the Deparment. The letter mentions 8489 officers in the Department but why is that number of relevance to request? It i...
The response from Janelle Raineri at the Department of Immigration is disgraceful. It brings the Department of Immigration and the Australian Public Se...
Mental health of asylum seekers
Refused.
I have learnt to feel very hopeless with request to Department of Immigration and Border Protection but in this letter of refusal there is also a candl...
Retired politicians pensions & benifits.
Information not held.
I think that there has been a misunderstanding or else something has been lost from the Right to Know website. There are remarks from the applicant for...
Higher Ed advertising campaign
Waiting clarification.
Always it is a pity that applicants do not take enough time to consider how to make their requests. Unfortunately, I think that it is the case with thi...
Retired politicians pensions & benifits.
Information not held.
I did not see this request in 2013. Only now I have seen it because the annotation by Eli Sky made the request be visible at the top of the list.
Th...
Number of detention centers in Australia 2000-2014
Long overdue.
Please have a look at my annotation on the request called "Gender balance of detainees from years 2000-2014" (https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/g....
Capacity of detention
Long overdue.
Please have a look at my annotation on the request called "Gender balance of detainees from years 2000-2014" (https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/ge...
Number of minors in detention centres from 2000-2014
Long overdue.
Please have a look at my annotation on the request called "Gender balance of detainees from years 2000-2014" (https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/ge...
Please have a look at my annotation on the request called "Gender balance of detainees from years 2000-2014" (https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/ge...
Gender balance of detainees from years 2000-2014
Long overdue.
This request will be refused. It is (almost without doubt) not a valid request under the Freedom of Information Act. It will only be a valid request if...
The empowering document, documents or legislation issued by the United Kingdom Goverment or Parliament empowering the Queen of Australia
Information not held.
This request has many respects of similarity to at least two previous requests on Right to Know:
Parliament of the Commonwealth: (https://www.righttok...
UFO Reports
Refused.
Mr Harrison, may I please suggest that you send immediately to the Department of Defense an amended request. The request you have made will be initiall...
Ex-gratia payments
Refused.
I think that there has been double misunderstandings here. I imagine that Medibank Private thought that the applicant was requesting personal informati...
Appeals from a Supreme Court to the High Court
Information not held.
In my mind, it is a high quality response from the internal review maker. He has read the review request. He has also read the extra information on thi...
FOI14139 Decision
Successful.
Mr Cordove, this sounds like good news. So because I do not understand, I would be very pleased if you would say something more.
Do you mean that the...