Ben Fairless
Joined Right To Know in 2013
I'm one of the people who keep Right to Know working. You'll usually see me making requests or helping others. I also make moderation decisions on behalf of the OpenAustralia Foundation (the charity that runs Right to Know).
All my requests are made in a personal capacity, and not on behalf of Right to Know or the OpenAustralia Foundation.
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This person's 419 Freedom of Information requests
Tier 2 enquiries on Saturday and during extended hours of business for Medicare and PBS 011-40120070
Follow up sent to Department of Human Services by Ben Fairless on .
Awaiting response.
Thanks for the FOI Acknowledgement. Can this document just be uploaded to the operational portal? This would save the Department a lot of time.
Yo...
Operational Information - Debts
Long overdue.
I have just been told I have a newstart allowance debt which I think has been wrongly given and maybe some sort of system error. I was on newstart allo...
FOI Manual - documents contained in G:\FOI\Admin\Manuals & Taskcards
Response by Department of Human Services to Ben Fairless on .
Information not held.
Dear Mr Fairless
Please find attached the decision letter relating to your request for
documents under the Freedom of Information Act 1982.
...
Dear Mr Fairless,
Please find attached correspondence in relation to your request.
Kind regards
Robert
Freedom of Information Pract...
Mr Fairless – Please find a letter, requesting that you clarify the terms
of your FOI application.
I’m happy to discuss this letter and to provide...
UNCLASSIFIED
Dear Mr Fairless,
I refer to your email of 14 November 2018, and to your more recent exchange with Thomas Stewart. I apologise for the de...
Documents related to alleged vote tampering
Response by Australian Electoral Commission to Ben Fairless on .
Withdrawn by the requester.
Dear Mr Fairless
I refer to your electronic request dated 9 May 2019 3.55am to the
Australian Electoral Commission.
I attach a letter date...
“Vote of No Confidence” - Internal documents
Response by Australian Electoral Commission to Ben Fairless on .
Waiting clarification.
Dear Mr Fairless
I refer to your electronic request dated 9 May 2019 4.02am to the
Australian Electoral Commission.
I attach a letter date...
Documents Related to Freedom of Information
Request to National Health and Medical Research Council by Ben Fairless. Annotated by Locutus Sum on .
Waiting clarification.
The agency wants a huge amount of money to consider releasing the documents. In my opinion this is completely wrong. The applicant asked the agency to...
The above email has been hidden at the request of the Decision Maker, who's signature appears within an attachment.
The response is provided below:...
UNCLASSIFIED
Good afternoon Mr Fairless
We refer to your email of 9 January 2018, the contents of which are noted.
We appreciate that your request wa...
Thanks for the reply and for releasing the documents. Very much appreciated.
Yours sincerely,
Ben Fairless
Good afternoon Mr Fairless,
See attached document.
Information other than the information requested, has been redacted.
Regards,
Anna Oliver
Freedo...
Thank you for taking the time to update and release this document, it's really appreciated.
Hope you had a great holiday period.
Yours sincerely...
FOI Delegations
Follow up sent to Australian Broadcasting Corporation by Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
Thank you for replying to my request, it's greatly appreciated.
Yours sincerely,
Ben Fairless
Thank you for your email and for pointing me in the direction of the documents. You're one of the only agencies I've found that publish their docume...
FOI Delegations
Follow up sent to Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority by Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
Thank you for taking the time to reply to my request outside the formal FOI process, and apologies I couldn't call you. I've only just had time to l...
FOI Delegations
Follow up sent to Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation by Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
Thank you for taking the time to reply, it's greatly appreciated.
Yours sincerely,
Ben Fairless
Thank you for responding outside of the FOI Act, and for providing the requested documents.
Yours sincerely,
Ben Fairless
FOI Delegations
Follow up sent to Australian Securities and Investments Commission by Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
Thank you for responding with the documents, ASIC is the only agency I'm aware of that manage their FOI authorisations in this way.
Yours sincerel...
FOI Delegations
Follow up sent to Australian Skills Quality Authority by Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
Thanks for releasing the document, it's very much appreciated.
The only interesting point is that the person whose name and position appears on th...
FOI Delegations
Request to Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency by Ben Fairless. Annotated by Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
Well you learn something new every day. I wasn't aware of this weird quirk with the AHPRA - I presumed that they were subject to the Act in the same wa...
FOI Delegations
Response by Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Women to Ben Fairless on .
Information not held.
UNCLASSIFIED
Dear Mr Fairless
You have indicated below that you are happy to receive the documents, that
you are seeking access to, outside th...
UNCLASSIFIED
Dear Mr Fairless
Thank you for your email dated 15 November 2018 in which you seek access
under administrative release to:...
Dear Mr Fairless
Thank you for your request to the Department of Health (Department) of 14
November 2018 seeking access under the Freedom of Inf...
This person's 259 annotations
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Statistical data on NBN FOI teams
Refused.
To answer the question from NBNCo, the status we display is determined by the requester. In this case, the requester has marked the request as refused....
APSC produced document for the IPA
Partially successful.
Right to Know has been contacted by the Australian Public Service Commission in relation to this request.
We have hidden the names of 3 public servan...
Animal Registraton
Information not held.
For the observant, you will notice that the above timeline might be out of order.
A response on the 10th of October was delivered to an invalid addre...
Julian Assange
Waiting clarification.
Hi There!
In order to make a valid request, you have to mention in your message what you are looking for.
if you click "Write a reply" you could po...
Weekly agenda format - September
Waiting clarification.
Few Points I would make:
1. It's assumed that if someone is making a request on Right to Know, they are requesting under Freedom of Information. The...
I've updated this request to indicate it's been moved from PMC to NIAA.
Documents relating to DVA FOI 24434 / OAIC RQ18/02960 and any communication between Carl English and the DVA related to my FOIs
Request to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by Julie. Annotated by Ben Fairless on .
Long overdue.
We have hidden the most recent response as the OAIC have claimed that the response was sent in error.
I've decided to stop replies and comments on this request. The requestor is not using our site to make a request but rather copying the Right to Know e...
I know you don't want it to be transferred and you've made that point really clear on this request. I've simply updated the request to indicate that it...
The Department has reached out to the volunteers at Right to Know to advise that this request has been transferred to the NBN Co.
I've updated this r...
An annotation was removed from this request as a member of the community reported that it could contain potentially defamatory content.
Annotations o...
All correspondence related to the change of use of the toilet block at Beldon Park Gradient Way 2014
Handled by post.
Hi Nick,
If you have any issues with a request, there is a "Report this request" link on the right hand side of the request.
I've updated the statu...
TITLE: First Local Housing Strategy REPORT
Handled by post.
I've set the status of this request to "Gone Postal" as we don't have the information from the Authority.
The above email has been hidden at the request of the Decision Maker, who's signature appears within an attachment.
The response is provided below:...
Research funding for Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.
Request to National Health and Medical Research Council by Asher Wolf. Annotated by Ben Fairless on .
Long overdue.
The agency is being a touch pedantic. Any request made using Right to Know puts "Freedom of Information Request" in the subject. This makes it clear th...
Compliments of FOI disclosure log
Information not held.
The Department says they didn't get the request, so I've resent it at their request.
FOI Delegations
Request to Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency by Ben Fairless. Annotated by Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
Well you learn something new every day. I wasn't aware of this weird quirk with the AHPRA - I presumed that they were subject to the Act in the same wa...
I don’t think I pursued this any further to be honest.
You’re welcome to make the same or similar request if you wanted ;)
It is possible to use our site for FOI - All we do is email the request to the FOI officer in any event.
Very poor form from the FOI officer in this...
The Email address provided by the Department is enquiries@classification.gov.au
Australian Financial Conduct Authority & the FIO Act
Request to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by Phillip Sweeney. Annotated by Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
Whoops, sorry the AFCA doesn’t have the same abn but the FOS website was updated to use the AFCA’s ABN on its footer.
Of note, the AFCA website is ac...
Australian Financial Conduct Authority & the FIO Act
Request to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by Phillip Sweeney. Annotated by Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
This is a really easy question to answer - it’s not subject to the FOI Act because it’s not a government agency. In Fact, it has the same ABN as the Fi...
Regulatory documents about exposure of a worker at ANSTO Health, Lucas Heights on 22 August 2017
Successful.
Hi Everyone,
The delay in releasing the documents was caused by Right to Know, not the authority. We sincerely apologise for the delay in fixing this...
Request for Information - Requirements for exercises of delegation under FOI Act
Request to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by Kieran (Account suspended). Annotated by Ben Fairless on .
Partially successful.
Hi Everyone,
Ben here, one of the volunteers that look after the site. Just a reminder that the purpose of annotations are to help people with reques...
