Ben Fairless
Joined Right To Know in 2013
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This person's 266 Freedom of Information requests
Communciations related to Right to Know
Response by Australian Taxation Office to Ben Fairless on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear FOI Applicant,
Please see attachment.
Yours faithfully,
FOI Team
Dear Applicant,
A notice regarding your FOI request is located...
Use of janusSEAL and Correspondence around same
Response by Department of Immigration and Border Protection to Ben Fairless on .
Awaiting classification.
UNCLASSIFIED
Our references: FA 16/11/00189-R1; ADF2016/65920
Dear Mr Fairless
I refer to your application for an Internal Review receive...
Failure of ICT systems
Awaiting internal review.
The latest reply from the ATO says, "On 23 June 2017, you were issued a notice of intention to refuse your FOI request as a ‘practical
refusal reason’...
Ridiculous calculation of charges that have no legitimate basis in fact, but are a thinly guised attempt to unlawfully frustrate access, are unfortunat...
This is a very strange and interesting request. Mr Fairless writes with a request to the department of the Attorney General (the "AGD"). AGD replies to...
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...
Customers recording interactions 104-07020060
Waiting clarification.
This comment is a repetition, in part, of a comment I made here: https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/ministerial_briefing_for_alan_tu#comment-1779...
Dear Mr Fairless,
The information you have requested is available on our website at
[1]https://www.ato.gov.au/assets/0/104/997/1030/543d6162-0b09...
Requests made via Right to Know
Follow up sent to Australian Taxation Office by Ben Fairless on .
Awaiting internal review.
I do not consent to withdraw the request. I seek information up to the date of the recent OAIC decision which I don't believe has been released....
Administrative/Informal access Arrangements
Response by South Australia Police to Ben Fairless on .
Long overdue.
Request for mobile communications via mobile applications
Response by Minister for Defence to Ben Fairless on .
Information not held.
UNCLASSIFIED
Good afternoon Mr Fairless,
I refer to your email dated 19 October 2016 where you sought access to
inbound and outbound chats sent to...
Average Hold Data for 2016
Refused.
I don't think the Department is correct here.
23 hours seems excessive to write a SQL script to dump aggregated records from a database, let alone to...
Thanks for coming back to me so quickly, much appreciated.
Yours sincerely,
Ben Fairless
Administrative/Informal access Arrangements
Response by Queensland Police Service to Ben Fairless on .
Partially successful.
Good Afternoon Mr Fairless
You have not provided a telephone number to respond to, hence I am replying my email.
Information on how to apply for inf...
Administrative/Informal access Arrangements
Response by Western Australia Police to Ben Fairless on .
Partially successful.
Good afternoon Ben
WA Police does not have any internal guidelines or procedures on what information can be released without a formal access applicati...
Administrative/Informal access Arrangements
Response by Tasmania Police to Ben Fairless on .
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Fairless,
Information relating to your query can be found at police.tas.gov.au >
Information Disclosure.
Regards,
John D...
Administrative/Informal access Arrangements
Response by Victoria Police to Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Fairless
I should explain that the role of the Freedom of Information Division for Victoria Police is to receive and process requests made und...
Administrative/Informal access Arrangements
Response by NT Police, Fire and Emergency Services to Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
Good morning Ben,
I refer you to our website, see below link:
http://www.pfes.nt.gov.au/Access-to-information.aspx
I hope this is of assistance to yo...
Administrative Access Arrangements
Information not held.
Hi Locutus,
I don't think the department is saying they can't find anything. It looks more like, to me anyway, that they are saying 'which administra...
Centrelink New Data Matching System
Response by Department of Human Services to Ben Fairless on .
Waiting clarification.
Dear Mr Fairless,
Thank you for your email.
The department is under an obligation to protect the identity of third parties to be consulted under sect...
Law Enforcement Requests - Uber
Follow up sent to Australian Federal Police by Ben Fairless on .
Withdrawn by the requester.
Please consider this request withdrawn.
Yours sincerely,
Ben Fairless
Documents from Telstra to Contact Centre Management
Response by Department of Human Services to Ben Fairless on .
Information not held.
Dear Mr Fairless,
Please see attached correspondence in relation to your freedom of
information request.
Regards,
FOI Legal Team
F...
FOI Delegations - 2016
Response by Australian Children's Television Foundation to Ben Fairless on .
Information not held.
Dear Ben
Apologies for the delay in responding to your request. It seems that your email was misdirected internally and I have only come across it tod...
Dear Mr Fairless,
To Clarify:
No formal delegations have been issued by the head of the agency under Freedom of Information Legislation.
Kind Regard...
Request for mobile communications via mobile applications
Response by Minister for Education to Ben Fairless on .
Refused.
UNCLASSIFIED
Dear Mr Fairless,
Please find attached a response to your recent FOI Request.
Regards,
Office of Senator the Hon Simon...
This person's 227 annotations
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?
Long overdue.
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....
The Information Commissioner has made a formal recommendation to the ATO to start processing to Freedom of Information requests made via Right to Know....
Employee information provided to ballot agents in Enterprise Agreement bargaining
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....
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....
Tax Evasion Investigation
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....
FOI Delegations - 2016
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....
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....
Squat toilets at the ATO
Awaiting classification.
The Information Commissioner has made a formal recommendation to the ATO to start processing to Freedom of Information requests made via Right to Know....
Policies and documents pertaining to the protection of information incase of societal upheaval
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....
Information in relation to the decision can be found here: https://www.openaustraliafoundation.org.au/2017/05/11/a-great-win-for-right-to-know-foi-and-...
My car sustained damage in police pursuit
Long overdue.
Hey there Jerry,
Locutus is here (voluntarily) as a member of the Right to Know community. She helps answer questions about FOI and has greatly infor...
The ABC is based in NSW (their Head office is in Ultimo). This would make the due date close of business on Tuesday.
Rhys Cauzzo
Long overdue.
I've had a look at this request and googled the person in question. I think this is about the decision to release the personal information of a welfare...
Wildlife rangers
Successful.
Hi There!
In Victoria, if you want to make a formal FOI request it's possible for the council to charge a $27.90 fee to do so plus the cost of proces...
Minutes of meetings of the SA Research Advisory Committee re: finfish aquaculture, multi-trophic aquaculture, nutrient loading and/or cuttlefish
Request to Fisheries Research and Development Corporation by Dan Monceaux. Annotated by Ben Fairless on .
Refused.
I've emailed FRDC's IT team to see if we can get this fixed.
Minutes of meetings of the SA Research Advisory Committee re: finfish aquaculture, multi-trophic aquaculture, nutrient loading and/or cuttlefish
Request to Fisheries Research and Development Corporation by Dan Monceaux. Annotated by Ben Fairless on .
Refused.
I've tried to re-send this request. If it bounces again, I'll see if we can get in touch with FRDC. Apologies for the delay it's taken to get to this....
This request was set to "Delvery Failure" but there was no failure in the delivery of the messages - the ATO simply refused to process the request.
Applications to register to vote by people under the voting age
Partially successful.
It doesn't stop the AEC from answering the persons questions. It just means they aren't legally obliged to. Which means they could be a Good Government...
Remuneration of all Australia Post Employees
Partially successful.
The decision here is fundamentally flawed. If the FOI Officer is able to provide the information she has provided, then the information must exist!
S...
Magdalene Catholic High School IT administrators password and username
Information not held.
Interesting idea, but I doubt this request will be successful:
- Passwords aren't in a readable format, they are normally encrypted, and they shouldn'...
