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Peter Timmins
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This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 14)
Seeking documents concerning handling of an inquiry lodged in February for information about issue of penalty notices for breach of Archives Act that has never been answered.
Response by National Archives of Australia to Peter Timmins on .
Partially successful.
OFFICIAL
Dear Mr Timmins
Thank you for your request for information.
Please find attached decision letter and documents in relation to your...
Time spent and charges attributed to dealing over five months with an FOI application
Response by Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to Peter Timmins on .
Information not held.
OFFICIAL
Dear Mr Timmins
Please find attached a decision in relation to your request for internal review, reference LEX3385.
The department would lik...
Background to the audit of Australian engagement with multilateral institutions
Request to Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade by Peter Timmins. Annotated by Peter Timmins on .
Refused.
In the hands of OAIC along with two other review applications still to be resolved after 12 months. We live in hope reminded from time to time that the...
Australian advocacy for transparency in World Health Organisation
Response by Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to Peter Timmins on .
Refused.
OFFICIAL
Dear Mr Timmins
Please see attached the decision in respect of your FOI request.
Kind regards
DFAT FOI Team
Freedom of I...
The audit report of multilateral institutions
Request to Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade by Peter Timmins. Annotated by Peter Timmins on .
Refused.
This matter was in the hands of the OAIC before this decision was made-seeking internal review of the deemed refusal and in connection with a broader c...
Latest document summarising current state of work on ALRC 112, Secrecy Laws and Open Government in Australia
Partially successful.
The 2012 briefing note released after all this is here:
https://app.box.com/s/f5d4f113zy14bhqcw183 (pdf)
The OAIC handed down a decision on those atta...
Conduct of functions of OAIC from 1 January 2015
Response by Office of the Australian Information Commissioner to Peter Timmins on .
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Timmins
Please find attached the decision, schedule and relevant documents in
relation to your request.
Kind regards
Rocelle...
Conduct of functions of OAIC from 1 january 2015
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Peter Timmins on .
Successful.
UNCLASSIFIED
Dear Mr Timmins
Please find attached a decision in relation to your request for documents
under the FOI Act, as well as a schedul...
Document setting out topics relevant to Australian membership of Open Government Partnership.
Refused.
Not quite the same request as the one here, but related ... https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/senate_estimates_brief_for_secre/new
Records of inter agency meetings held on 17 July 2013, 29 October 2013 and 5 November 2013 on the Open Government Partnership.
Follow up sent to Attorney-General's Department by Peter Timmins on .
Partially successful.
Thanks for the response. as you will appreciate, it's puzzling that you turn out not to have a copy of the record of two of the three inter agency me...
Australian support for Civil Society
Response by Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to Peter Timmins on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Timmins
Please find the FOI decision and documents attached.
I confirm that we received full payment of the charges on 31 January.
I also c...
Public interest immunity claims
Follow up sent to Department of the Senate by Peter Timmins on .
Information not held.
Thanks. Peter
Yours sincerely,
Peter Timmins
Australia and Open Government Partnership
Successful.
This request was mentioned in this Canberra Times article, "The war on freedom":
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/public-service/the-war-on-f...
Report on e-parliament Conference Rome
Follow up sent to Department of Parliamentary Services by Peter Timmins on .
Successful.
Dear DPS
Thank you for providing a copy of the report on 12 December.
Yours sincerely,
Peter Timmins
This person's 30 annotations
National Cabinet
Refused.
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In Senate Estimates for PMC on Monday 22 May the following exchanges took place.
Peter Timmins
Senator BIRMINGHAM: Perhaps on notice you can p...
Seeking documents concerning handling of an inquiry lodged in February for information about issue of penalty notices for breach of Archives Act that has never been answered.
Partially successful.
The penalty for unauthorised destruction, damage or 'transfer of the custody or ownership' of Commonwealth records under s 24 Archives Act is 20 Penalt...
Background to the audit of Australian engagement with multilateral institutions
Request to Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade by Peter Timmins. Annotated by Peter Timmins on .
Refused.
In the hands of OAIC along with two other review applications still to be resolved after 12 months. We live in hope reminded from time to time that the...
Gas explosion, Kabul, 26/April/2012
Request to Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade by Christopher Wilson. Annotated by Peter Timmins on .
Refused.
Christopher Wilson
I'd be interested if you took this any further?
Background to the audit of Australian engagement with multilateral institutions
Request to Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade by Peter Timmins. Annotated by Peter Timmins on .
Refused.
OAIC rejects DFAT application for extension of time.
Background to the audit of Australian engagement with multilateral institutions
Request to Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade by Peter Timmins. Annotated by Peter Timmins on .
Refused.
My submission to OAIC that the DFAT application for extension of time should be refused
Background to the audit of Australian engagement with multilateral institutions
Request to Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade by Peter Timmins. Annotated by Peter Timmins on .
Refused.
I'm contesting the DFAT position to impose a charge in all cases where the applicant seeks access to documents other than those that contain personal i...
The audit report of multilateral institutions
Request to Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade by Peter Timmins. Annotated by Peter Timmins on .
Refused.
This matter was in the hands of the OAIC before this decision was made-seeking internal review of the deemed refusal and in connection with a broader c...
Time spent and charges attributed to dealing over five months with an FOI application
Request to Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade by Peter Timmins. Annotated by Peter Timmins on .
Information not held.
I've written to DFAT expressing surprise on a number of counts about their reliance on administrative access arrangements not to release information, b...
The audit report of multilateral institutions
Request to Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade by Peter Timmins. Annotated by Peter Timmins on .
Refused.
OAIC decline DFAT request for extension of time for processing the application (for one document) putting it in deemed refusal territory and no process...
The audit report of multilateral institutions
Request to Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade by Peter Timmins. Annotated by Peter Timmins on .
Refused.
This application for one-repeat one-document has been with DFAT since 18 June. Some days were taken up with back and forward about charges. I did not a...
Australian advocacy for transparency in World Health Organisation
Request to Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade by Peter Timmins. Annotated by Peter Timmins on .
Refused.
Extension of time.
I agreed to 10 days (not the 21 requested) which pushed things out to 7 August. Then along comes OAIC and grants a further extensio...
The audit report of multilateral institutions
Request to Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade by Peter Timmins. Annotated by Peter Timmins on .
Refused.
Chase Holland, I'm tempted to contest the decision to waive 50% of the charges not 100% because the strange language about the importance of charges do...
Australian advocacy for transparency in World Health Organisation
Request to Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade by Peter Timmins. Annotated by Peter Timmins on .
Refused.
I'm sure this run around is familiar to many who use this platform but it's been one process issue after another before we get far-or anywhere at all....
Letters from the PM to the Queen
Request to Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet by William Summers. Annotated by Peter Timmins on .
Refused.
The Australian Information Commissioner in William Summers and Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (Freedom of information) [2018] AICmr 9 (16...
Mark, I expect you'll get a reply that the document is not accessible under FOI.
Section 12(1)(c) A person is not entitled to obtain access under this...
Rejection of "Freedom Brand Muesli Bars" by Manus Island Detention Centre Contractor Transfield Services.
Successful.
CD, You deserve a gold star for patience while Immigration deserves the wooden spoon for delay and resort to just about every device imaginable to add...
Latest document summarising current state of work on ALRC 112, Secrecy Laws and Open Government in Australia
Partially successful.
The 2012 briefing note released after all this is here:
https://app.box.com/s/f5d4f113zy14bhqcw183 (pdf)
The OAIC handed down a decision on those atta...
Document setting out topics relevant to Australian membership of Open Government Partnership.
Refused.
I classified this as a refuse as having clarified my request the Department goes blithely on its merry way referring to a publicly available document t...
Recent appointments to the Nomination Panel for ABC and SBS Appointments
Request to Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet by Henare Degan. Annotated by Peter Timmins on .
Refused.
Henare, This issue got quite a workout in Senate Estimates for PM&C on Monday with questions raised by Senator Wong about various appointments. See htt...
Latest document summarising current state of work on ALRC 112, Secrecy Laws and Open Government in Australia
Partially successful.
The AGD revised decision granted access to the briefing note. The OAIC had concluded that s 47C did not apply to the document. AGD said simply they had...
Latest document summarising current state of work on ALRC 112, Secrecy Laws and Open Government in Australia
Partially successful.
Message below received from OAIC 28 August.
(If AGD stick to their word, this sounds like a victory. As to the explanation for close to 18 months sin...
Latest document summarising current state of work on ALRC 112, Secrecy Laws and Open Government in Australia
Partially successful.
An application for review of this decision has been lodged with the Office of Australian Information Commissioner. Peter Timmins.
Latest document summarising current state of work on ALRC 112, Secrecy Laws and Open Government in Australia
Partially successful.
For comment on the decision in this case see
http://www.foi-privacy.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/gaming-foi-system.html#.UdyxoVNoYdM
Peter Timmins.
Latest document summarising current state of work on ALRC 112, Secrecy Laws and Open Government in Australia
Partially successful.
I'm tempted to say "you have got to be kidding" but will refrain for the moment.