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 22)
FOI14139 Decision
Successful.
I do not like to be a messenger carrying the bad news but I think, Mr Fairless, that you do not have a right interpretation of section 20.
Please rea...
Prohibitions in making an application to Tribunal
Information not held.
Haply I re-read the annotation of Jul 12, 2014 of the applicant (https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/prohibitions_in_making_an_applic#comment-573)....
Parliament of the Commonwealth
Refused.
I had a conversation with email with user Derek. There became a question about whether the version with bold print is correct, or the version with encl...
Appeals from a Supreme Court to the High Court
Information not held.
I expect that the internal review will not change the decision. It is so because it is very unlikely that the documents described from the applicant ex...
Applications to VCAT seeking (interim) restraining order/injunction against a landlord(s)
Information not held.
The Right to Know website makes so very much plain that a person should not use the site for personal information that I think it would not normally be...
Parliament of the Commonwealth
Refused.
The Constitution of Australia makes the body of section 9 of the Imperial Act 1900 c. 12 (Regnal. 63 and 64 Vict). It is available at the UK Legislatio...
I make this comment about the most recent email of Mr Donnellan only to make it clearer exactly it is a department must do when it has given access to...
The MDBA Fact Sheet 'All about the barrages' doesn't reveal your scientific references
Long overdue.
The email harbours no request for documents. The statement, "In our [sic] view, your fact sheet has various data that requires correction" is a stateme...
Applications to VCAT seeking (interim) restraining order/injunction against a landlord(s)
Information not held.
Footnote [2] in the applicant's email of 15 June 2004 is incorrect. The definition of "agency" in s4 of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 is "a Depar...
Prime Ministerial communications via social media
Request to Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet by Anonymouse-. Annotated by Locutus Sum on .
Refused.
I believe that this is an exceptionally poor response from the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. It gives the impression, whether or not it is...
Centrelink phone call statistics and QoS
Long overdue.
This is a note of thanks to Anonymouse-. It is a great satisfaction for a writer to know that her comments, especially when she is trying to be helpful...
Correspondence with ABC regarding NBN
Information not held.
Please have a look at the annotation I have made on another request from Ms Anonymouse-. The comments on the page about Centrelink telephone calls (htt...
Centrelink phone call statistics and QoS
Long overdue.
I do not like to be a harbinger of doom but the applicant, Anonymouse-, I think will have some disappointment unless she changes the application. Fru M...
Stats regarding increase or decrease of bullying in high schools.
Information not held.
In my opinion, the reply to the applicant from the Department of Education was exemplary. The decision maker Ms Jenny Komsic has given a very high qual...
The annotation from Mr Fairless made me worry. I started to think that I must write out 100 time "I must be careful to check the law" but in fact, I di...
It is to no purpose to ask the Department why they have not fulfilled their responsibilities "in a timely fashion". Why not? First, because the departm...
Stats regarding increase or decrease of bullying in high schools.
Information not held.
I think that this request is about a topic that might be of interest to many Australian people like parents of high school students. But also I think t...
Lack of information around University requirements to uphold AQTF
Request to Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency by Anonymous Student. Annotated by Locutus Sum on .
Successful.
So now I add more today, when I said before that it was a last thought ...
The link for the main document to regulate the Qualifications Framework is...
Lack of information around University requirements to uphold AQTF
Request to Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency by Anonymous Student. Annotated by Locutus Sum on .
Successful.
It is a misfortune to have had your experience but I am very surprised that you could not find information about how to make a complaint. I typed "teqs...
GLORICIDE
Request to Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority by Adam Presnell. Annotated by Locutus Sum on .
Refused.
This is not a good use of Right to Know. To be foreceful in my saying, it is disgraceful. It can give the Right to Know website a poor reputation even...
Seach for MH370
Information not held.
It is unfortunate that Mr Fairless is correct (https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/seach_for_mh370#comment-451); the application shows a good pictur...
Statistics on Cybersafety Help Button downloads
Request to Department of Communications and the Arts by Sam Silvester. Annotated by Locutus Sum on .
Successful.
This is an annotation to reply to questions asked by Mr Steven Roddis (https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/statistics_on_cybersafety_help_b#comment-...
GLORICIDE
Request to Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority by Adam Presnell. Annotated by Locutus Sum on .
Refused.
Primary: I think that you have not sufficiently limited your request. You must keep to mind that the Department is only required to give you five hours...
Information regarding the amount of tertiary students aged 30 and over.
Awaiting internal review.
I wish to make two suggestions; with good fortune, one of them will be helpful. One possibility is to use the Table Builder from the Australian Bureau...
How is Australia being protected from the threat of Islam?
Information not held.
Emendment for the annotation I made 2014:03:28.
I was careless in my typing. Most of the time when I mentioned section 12, I should have said section...