LEX, TRIM, Y-Drive and Microsoft Teams Chat records for LEX 47367

Response to this request is long overdue. By law, under all circumstances, Department of Veterans' Affairs should have responded by now (details). You can complain by requesting an internal review.

Dear Department of Veterans' Affairs,

To the extent the department has documents in its possession that fall within the scope of this FOI request, you will treat the names and position titles of Commonwealth employees as in scope of this request made under the FOI Act. No agreement to exclude is given.

I request copy of all LEX, TRIM, Y-Drive and Microsoft Teams chat records held by DVA that reference or refer or relate to LEX 47367.

You are to redact any email address of mine as irrelevant under s 22.

Yours faithfully,

Verity Pane

INFORMATION.ACCESS, Department of Veterans' Affairs

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Dear Ms Pane,

The Department of Veterans’ Affairs (the department) has received your 
request for access to information under the Freedom of Information Act
1982 (FOI Act). I note you have requested access to the following:

To the extent the department has documents in its possession that fall
within the scope of this FOI request, you will treat the names and
position titles of Commonwealth employees as in scope of this request made
under the FOI Act. No agreement to exclude is given.

 

I request copy of all LEX, TRIM, Y-Drive and Microsoft Teams chat records
held by DVA that reference or refer or relate to LEX 47367.

 

You are to redact any email address of mine as irrelevant under s 22.

 

Your request was received by the department on 26 March 2022 and the 30
day statutory period for processing your request commenced from the day
after that date. The period of 30 days may be extended if we need to
consult third parties or for other reasons permitted under the FOI Act. We
will advise you if this happens.

 

Charges

 

The department will advise you if a charge is payable to process your
request and the amount of any such charge as soon as practicable. No
charge is payable for providing a person with their own personal
information.

 

Your address

 

The FOI Act requires that you provide us with an address that we can send
notices to. You have advised your electronic address is
[1][FOI #8654 email] .Unless you tell us
otherwise, we will send all notices and correspondence to this address.

 

Disclosure log

 

Information released under the FOI Act may be published on a disclosure
log on our website, subject to certain exceptions. These exceptions
include where publication of personal, business, professional or
commercial information would be unreasonable.

 

Further assistance

 

If you have any questions about your request, please email
[2][DVA request email]

 

Yours sincerely

Aaron (position number 62214261)

Information Access Officer

Information Access Unit

Department of Veterans’ Affairs

t 1800 838 372 | e [3][email address] |
[4]www.dva.gov.au

p GPO Box 9998, Canberra ACT 2601

[5]cid:image001.png@01D0027A.1DAB84F0

 

References

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1. mailto:[FOI #8654 email]
2. mailto:[DVA request email]
3. mailto:[email address]
4. http://www.dva.gov.au/

INFORMATION.ACCESS, Department of Veterans' Affairs

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Dear Verity Pane,

Please see attached our decision of even date.

 

As the documents we are releasing to you are too large to send via email,
we will be releasing them to you using SIGBOX.

Please follow the instructions provided in the email to access your
information.

 

Any documents produced by the Department in response to this FOI request
will be available through SIGBOX for a period of 7 days before being
removed.  It is important that you download the information from SIGBOX
onto your own electronic device within 7 days of receipt.

 

You will shortly receive an email from Information Law via ‘Macquarie
Government’ advising you that Information Law has shared a document with
you. The email will read a little like this:

[1]Hey there, Just letting you know that Information Law shared LEX 48751
– Bundle for release with you. Activate your guest account at Macquarie
Government by setting a password. Then view it! You can login using the
email address “[FOI #8654 email]” Cheers! --
Macquarie Government – Intellicentres are intelligent
https://macquariegovernment.com/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you have any problems accessing the documents please let me know.

 

Kind Regards

 

Jasmine (Position Number 62329540)

Information Access Officer

Information Access Unit

Department of Veterans’ Affairs

e [2][email address]

 

 

References

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1. https://macquariegovernment.com/
2. mailto:[email address]

Information Access via Macquarie Government,

  [1]Macquarie Government
 
Hey there,

just letting you know that Information Access shared LEX 48751 - BUNDLE
for release.pdf with you.

Activate your guest account at Macquarie Government by [2]setting a
  password.

Then [3]view it!

You can login using the email address
"[FOI #8654 email]" .

Cheers!
 
--
  Macquarie Government - Intellicentres are intelligent
[4]https://macquariegovernment.com/
 

References

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2. https://dva.sig-box.com/index.php/apps/g... #8654 email]/noNXYDSh7PWA7ZHhhcc6X
3. https://dva.sig-box.com/index.php/f/351225
4. https://macquariegovernment.com/

Information Access via Macquarie Government,

  [1]Macquarie Government
 
Hey there,

just letting you know that Information Access shared LEX 48751 - BUNDLE
  for release.pdf with you.
[2]View it!

Cheers!
 
--
  Macquarie Government - Intellicentres are intelligent
[3]https://macquariegovernment.com/
 

References

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2. https://dva.sig-box.com/index.php/f/351225
3. https://macquariegovernment.com/

Macquarie Government,

  [1]Macquarie Government
 
Hello [FOI #8654 email],

You are receiving this email because the following things happened at
  [2]Macquarie Government

* Information Access shared [3]LEX 48751 - BUNDLE for release.pdf with
you - Today at 10:15:41 AM
 
--
  Macquarie Government - Intellicentres are intelligent
[4]https://macquariegovernment.com/

References

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2. file:///tmp/dva.sig-box.com/
3. file:///tmp/dva.sig-box.com/index.php/f/351225
4. https://macquariegovernment.com/

Dear INFORMATION.ACCESS,

You claim the access given (414 pages) is too big to send in accordance with the manner specified by my FOI, yet given the 414 pages is comprised of multiple documents it could be easily sent in seperate emails.

The FOI Act requires access to provided as applied for, unless it is unreasonable to do so.

As DVA does not publish its documents released in its disclosure log, despite the OAIC stating agencies should do so for multiple years now, it is important that members of the public can access released material.

I did not seek access via a drop box I have to create an account to access, and you cannot unreasonably force its use when you can readily send such documents in the manner specified (especially given 414 PDF pages would normally be well under 20MB).

Yours sincerely,

Verity Pane

Attn INFORMATION.ACCESS,

You still have not responded to my follow up of 3 May

Verity Pane