Ben Fairless
Joined Right to Know in 2013
I work for the OpenAustralia Foundation. I used to use this account when I was administering the site however now I use this account just to make requests and to provide suggestions to people.
All my requests are made in a personal capacity, and not on behalf of Right to Know, the OpenAustralia Foundation, or any other organisation unless specifically indicated.
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This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 500)
Documents about request "Websites seized by the AFP from 2020 to 2024" on Right to Know
Response by Australian Federal Police to Ben Fairless on .
OFFICIAL
Dear Mr Fairless
Please find attached correspondence regarding your FOI request, LEX 3698.
Kind regards
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION TEAM LEADER...
Missed Delivery Complaints
Response by Australian Postal Corporation to Ben Fairless on .
Thank you for your email.
This is an automated response to confirm that your email was received by
Australia Post’s Freedom of Informa...
Documents related to Application for employee-like minimum standards order (MS2025/2)
Response by Fair Work Commission to Ben Fairless on .
OFFICIAL
Dear Mr Fairless,
Please refer to the attached Decision Letter in relation to your FOI
request made on 4 June 2025.
Regards,...
Suppression of Aircraft Data from Third-Party Flight Tracking Platforms
Response by NT Police, Fire and Emergency Services to Ben Fairless on .
Good afternoon
Kindly be advised that State or Northern Territory government don’t hold
this kind of information. The information you’re seeking...
https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/operational_blueprint_documents#incoming-36428
Suppression of Aircraft Data from Third-Party Flight Tracking Platforms
Response by Airservices Australia to Ben Fairless on .
OFFICIAL
Good morning, Mr Fairless
If possible, would you mind confirming by reply email that you withdraw
request F25-23 dated 23 April 2025...
Suppression of Aircraft Data from Third-Party Flight Tracking Platforms
Response by Victoria Police to Ben Fairless on .
OFFICIAL: Sensitive
Good afternoon,
Thank you for your email.
Yes, I can confirm that in order to access this information you are required to submit...
Suppression of Aircraft Data from Third-Party Flight Tracking Platforms
Response by Queensland Police Service to Ben Fairless on .
OFFICIAL
Good afternoon Mr Fairless
I have looked over the scope of your application and whilst I am unable to
comment on whether the informat...
Caretaker conventions - operational processes
Follow up sent to Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet by Ben Fairless on .
I apologise that it has taken me so long to reply. Just confirming I no longer require this information and this request can be considered withdrawn...
OFFICIAL
Good afternoon
I refer to your request below for access to documents under the Freedom of
Information Act 1982 (FOI Act).
...
Suppression of Aircraft Data from Third-Party Flight Tracking Platforms
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Ben Fairless on .
OFFICIAL
Dear Mr Fairless
of Information Request FOI25/213
Please find attached your decision letter, including your review rights....
Letter from Senator Dean Smith and response
Response by Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection to Ben Fairless on .
Link: [1]File-List
OFFICIAL
Good Morning
Please see attached decision letter for your FOI request for documents of
the Minister.
Regar...
Protest Actions at Australian Airports from August 2024 to September 2024
Response by Australian Federal Police to Ben Fairless on .
OFFICIAL
Dear Mr Fairless,
Please find attached correspondence in relation to your Freedom of
Information request, reference LEX 3418.
...
Suppression of Aircraft Data from Third-Party Flight Tracking Platforms
Response by Department of Home Affairs to Ben Fairless on .
OFFICIAL: Sensitive
Dear Ben Fairless
FOI request FA 25/04/01394
I refer to your FOI request received on 23 April 2025, seeking access to...
Suppression of Aircraft Data from Third-Party Flight Tracking Platforms
Response by Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet to Ben Fairless on .
OFFICIAL
Departmental reference: FOI/2025/81
Dear Mr Fairless,
Please find attached the decision regarding your request under the Fre...
Suppression of Aircraft Data from Third-Party Flight Tracking Platforms
Response by Department of Defence to Ben Fairless on .
OFFICIAL
Defence FOI 965/24/25
Dear Ben
I am contacting you to commence formal consultation for your recent
Freedom of Information request r...
Suppression of Aircraft Data from Third-Party Flight Tracking Platforms
Response by Civil Aviation Safety Authority to Ben Fairless on .
OFFICIAL
CASA Reference number: F25/10673
Dear Ben,
I refer to your email of 23 April 2025, whereby you requested the
following docu...
Suppression of Aircraft Data from Third-Party Flight Tracking Platforms
Response by Western Australia Police to Ben Fairless on .
Good morning Ben,
Thank you for your response.
Unfortunately, the only way this information would be released would be by
a formal request...
Suppression of Aircraft Data from Third-Party Flight Tracking Platforms
Response by NSW Police Force to Ben Fairless on .
Good morning,
Unfortunately, the information provided regarding a formal application is the only way to get any information you may require.
In order...
Suppression of Aircraft Data from Third-Party Flight Tracking Platforms
Response by Tasmania Police to Ben Fairless on .
Good morning Mr Fairless.
If the information is not already publicly available, any information located relating to your request will require to be as...
Suppression of Aircraft Data from Third-Party Flight Tracking Platforms
Clarification sent to Australian Federal Police by Ben Fairless on .
Thanks for coming back to me. If the AFP has never made a request to remove/hide aircraft data from third party tracking services then I am happy to...
Suppression of Aircraft Data from Third-Party Flight Tracking Platforms
Request sent to South Australia Police by Ben Fairless on .
I am seeking access to documents relating to the removal, suppression, or anonymisation of aircraft data from third-party flight tracking services s...
I’m updating the status on this request to “Partially Successful” because while the FOI officer was helpful, I was still asked to submit an application...
Active domains on nt.gov.au
Request sent to NT Department of Corporate and Digital Development by Ben Fairless on .
I’m looking for a list of all active domains registered on nt.gov.au. For example, this would include “dcdd.wa.gov.au”.
I would prefer to receive...
Number of “Notice of Intention to consider Cancellation” issued related to Rideshare
Follow up sent to Department of Home Affairs by Ben Fairless on .
Thank you for your email. I will be sending an email from [email address] with the relevant information.
Yours sincerely,
Ben Fairless
This person's 342 annotations
https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/operational_blueprint_documents#incoming-36428
I’m updating the status on this request to “Partially Successful” because while the FOI officer was helpful, I was still asked to submit an application...
Forgive me, I should’ve checked this before beforehand… the NDIA already has a portal like this!
https://ourguidelines.ndis.gov.au/
This is a fantastic example of an agency taking on board valid feedback and working with applicants to make the process easier for both the agency and...
Here's the back story:
https://www.oaf.org.au/2017/01/25/right-to-know-ato-oaic/
Worth pointing out they have been doing this since 2016.
Interested to see how the ABC processes this request… As technically the information you’re asking for is exempt as it relates to program material. Tha...
As a suggestion, you may want to ask the OAIC for a copy of all of the NDA submissions through their FOIStats portal.
https://www.oaic.gov.au/freedo...
According to https://whynohttps.com/country/au it's the number one website in Australia that doesn't load securely. Kind of poor if you don't mind me s...
I would reply to the authority (you can do this by clicking Actions > Write a Reply) and ask them if they can process this request as an informal acces...
Information on NSW medical intern hospital position allocation
Request to Health Education and Training Institute NSW (HETI) by C. F.. Annotated by Ben Fairless on .
We have now got a valid email address for HETI! I have re-sent the request through the website.
They were a bit confused about who we were, but hopef...
Information on NSW medical intern hospital position allocation
Request to Health Education and Training Institute NSW (HETI) by C. F.. Annotated by Ben Fairless on .
We have reached out to HETI to try and get a valid email address, as the one listed on their website clearly isn't correct.
In theory, you could ask if it's possible to make an "Informal Access Request".
Well this feels dodgy - all that Deakin University needed to do was correspond via the email address provided by Right to Know, however they have deman...
We have written to Launceston City Council about some of the comments on this request, specifically those about not responding to requests made via Rig...
All requests sent to Right to Know contain enough information to identify it as a FOI request. This is included in the footer of the email, as well as...
The easiest thing to do in this instance is reply to the authority, telling them you are happy for the information to be provided this way.
For some reason the authority decided to share the decision letter and documents via a SharePoint link instead of just replying to the email (which is...
Generally speaking, if the agency makes something available for purchase then you can't get it under FOI. However I would be interested to see how Serv...
I've verified that this has gone to the correct email address for GIPA requests for the NSW Police - Not sure why they responded the way they did.
Welfare Fraud Integrity Campaign
Request to Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet by Dolebludger. Annotated by Ben Fairless on .
So in this case, the Department has decided that they don't have enough information to process the request. You need to make a request asking for the d...
This note is left on this request at the request of Waldek. The only person who can respond to emails about this request is the person who made the ini...
While frustrating, the QLD Police are technically correct - if you are making a formal RTI request, they are legally required to charge the application...
There is a technical issue on Right to Know which is preventing the documents from being uploaded.
As a workaround, I have uploaded the documents her...
The email address provided above is research[.]ethics@ecu.edu.au (just remove the "[]"
Hello,
I'm one of the workers who look after Right to Know.
Firstly, I want to apologise that it's taken us so long to look at the error message ab...