Verity Pane
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Nepotism and patronage in Defence
Long overdue.
Defence's response here has initiated what is know as a request consultation process. Under s 24 an agency may require an applicant to engage in a requ...
Applying a full s 47C - Deliberative Matter exemption on a document relating to a policy on administrative access to AFP documents only makes sense if...
Agencies should be careful when using cut and paste templates to respond to FOI requests to avoid inadvertently disclosing unrelated information, and t...
Enterprise bargaining - what information is provided to department about employees' votes?
Partially successful.
On 26 Feb 2017 Applicant made a FOI request to AGD (FOI 17/042), of which decision was issued 30 March 2017. The Applicant sought internal review on 31...
Consultations relating to Waiver of Privacy Act Personal Information Disclosure Certificate - Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Digital Readiness and Other Measures) Bill 2016
Partially successful.
For the interest of others, who may be refused access to information, on claims of unreasonable disclosure of the personal information of others, it ma...
Consultations relating to Waiver of Privacy Act Personal Information Disclosure Certificate - Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Digital Readiness and Other Measures) Bill 2016
Partially successful.
Some revisions, mostly irrelevant material added, but surprisingly some redactions applied to material previously released (which I've not seen before,...
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 Verity Pane on .
Refused.
I would agree that agency has not correctly interpreted s 17 of the Freedom of Information Act.
Section 17 provides for circumstances where informati...
Information on considerably delayed Privacy Complaints & IC Reviews
Request to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by Verity Pane. Annotated by Verity Pane on .
Refused.
Yet again the OAIC intentionally misrepresent and mislead, hand waving at glaring inconsistencies with their fraudulent claims. Such intentional opaque...
Consultations relating to Waiver of Privacy Act Personal Information Disclosure Certificate - Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Digital Readiness and Other Measures) Bill 2016
Partially successful.
Seems DVA staff don't read in full the emails they receive via RtK. I clearly stated previously I sought internal review - using those exact words - on...
Waiver of Privacy Act Personal Information Disclosure Certificate - Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Digital Readiness and Other Measures) Bill 2016 -
Request to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by Verity Pane. Annotated by Verity Pane on .
Refused.
The OAIC has refused to amend its decision in its Internal Review, spouting the same flawed arguments.
The OAIC continues to ignore that it's own pol...
Information on considerably delayed Privacy Complaints & IC Reviews
Request to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by Verity Pane. Annotated by Verity Pane on .
Refused.
Rather appalling that the OAIC, which intended from the outset to refuse to supply the information requested (even though it had no valid exemption to...
Waiver of Privacy Act Personal Information Disclosure Certificate - Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Digital Readiness and Other Measures) Bill 2016 -
Request to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by Verity Pane. Annotated by Verity Pane on .
Refused.
Given the OAIC has demonstrated they were quite able to release the documents within one day of a challenge to the unethical and unlawful practice of g...
Waiver of Privacy Act Personal Information Disclosure Certificate - Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Digital Readiness and Other Measures) Bill 2016 -
Request to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by Verity Pane. Annotated by Verity Pane on .
Refused.
It is highly questionable that the OAIC have very unusually referred an FOI relating to a request for records they hold, regarding consultations they h...
Waiver of Privacy Act Personal Information Disclosure Certificate - Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Digital Readiness and Other Measures) Bill 2016 -
Request to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by Verity Pane. Annotated by Verity Pane on .
Refused.
As you say, in most cases, not all cases.
The OAIC is like every other government agency - it will subvert the objects and aims and intents of the Fr...