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 on here.
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 414 Freedom of Information requests
FOI Delegations
Response by Australian Competition Tribunal to Ben Fairless on .
Awaiting classification.
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 .
Awaiting classification.
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 .
Awaiting classification.
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 Practitioners 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...
Dear Mr Fairless,
...
Dear Mr Fairless,
Thank you for your request.
The Department of Social Services and the Minister for Families and Social
Services have dec...
Dear Mr Fairless,
Thank you for your request.
The Department of Social Services and the Minister for Families and Social
Services have dec...
Dear Mr Fairless,
Thank you for your request.
The Department of Social Services and the Minister for Families and Social
Services have dec...
Dear Mr Fairless
Thank you for your freedom of information request.
You indicated in your request to the department, dated 14 November 2018...
This person's 248 annotations
Copy of the Monthly R&C metrics reports for July 2017 thru to June 2018
Awaiting classification.
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 Practitioners 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...
Freedom of Information Act
Request to Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet by john wilshire. Annotated by Ben Fairless on .
Refused.
This has been requested a few times before:
https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/seeking_valid_imformation#incoming-11577
https://www.righttoknow...
Regulatory documents about exposure of a worker at ANSTO Health, Lucas Heights on 22 August 2017
Successful.
Hi All,
The Right to Know team are working with ComCare to understand the issue here - Please bear with us!
Thanks,
Ben
Systems integrator panel for WPIT
Successful.
Hi David, there was an issue with Right to Know which prevented some emails from being received for several days. This wasn’t caused by the authority....
Request for email document
Successful.
There was a technical issue which prevented responses from appearing on the site - If a response isn't received in a few hours, we have asked the APSC...
Footage of animals on board live animal export ships
Request to Department of Agriculture and Water Resources by Shane Townsend. Annotated by Ben Fairless on .
Refused.
Right to Know is working with the Department of Agruculture to understand why their responses are not appearing on the site.
Commissioner responsible for people smuggling
Withdrawn by the requester.
I've removed the name of the Media Team advisor at the request of the AFP Media Team and in line with our Takedown Policy.
Freedom of information officers
Refused.
The below is the response from the Department:
Dear SB
In its current form, your request does not meet the requirements of the FOI Act.
This is b...
In a recent OAIC decision the ATO was told they needed to respond to requests made via this site.
It’s disappointing to see the ATO not following th...
Enterprise Agreement ballots - were employees informed of what data about them was used in the ballot?
Partially successful.
The Information Commissioner has made a formal recommendation to the ATO to start processing to Freedom of Information requests made via Right to Know....
Tax return retention period
Refused.
The Information Commissioner has made a formal recommendation to the ATO to start processing to Freedom of Information requests made via Right to Know....
The Information Commissioner has made a formal recommendation to the ATO to start processing to Freedom of Information requests made via Right to Know....
