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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 494) (page 11)
Documents from Telstra to Contact Centre Management
Response by Services Australia to Ben Fairless on .
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 .
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...
FOI Delegations - 2016
Response by Digital Transformation Agency to Ben Fairless on .
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 .
UNCLASSIFIED
Dear Mr Fairless,
Please find attached a response to your recent FOI Request.
Regards,
Office of Senator the Hon Simon...
FOI Delegations - 2016
Response by Australian Grape and Wine Authority to Ben Fairless on .
Dear Mr Fairless,
Freedom of Information Request Number – AGWA051216
I refer to your recent request for access to documents under the Freedom...
FOI Delegations - 2016
Response by Australian Crime Commission to Ben Fairless on .
Dear Mr Fairless,
Please see the attached correspondence in relation to your request for an internal review under the Freedom of Information Act 1982....
FOI Delegations - 2016
Response by Australian Institute of Marine Science to Ben Fairless on .
Dear Mr Fearless,
Thank you for your email clarifying your original request.
The Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Institute of Mar...
FOI Delegations - 2016
Response by Australian Institute of Criminology to Ben Fairless on .
Dear Mr Fairless,
Please see the attached correspondence in relation to your request for
documents under the Freedom of Information Act 1982....
Request for mobile communications via mobile applications
Follow up sent to Prime Minister by Ben Fairless on .
Before I seek IC review of this decision, can you confirm if the Prime Minister's personal mobile devices were searched as part of your searches?...
FOI Delegations - 2016
Response by Department of the Treasury to Ben Fairless on .
Dear Mr Fairless.
Please find attached correspondence relating to your above FOI request
recently lodged with this department
Regards
FO...
Processing of FOI requests
Response by Department of Home Affairs to Ben Fairless on .
UNCLASSIFIED
Our references: FA 16/11/00182; ADF2016/65888
Dear Mr Fairless,
Thank you for your FOI request received on 2 November 2016 f...
FOI Delegations - 2016
Response by Australian Bureau of Statistics to Ben Fairless on .
Dear Mr Fairless,
In response to your request for an internal review on 1 December 2016,
please find attached the formal response from the ABS.
Sh...
FOI Delegations - 2016
Response by Commonwealth Ombudsman to Ben Fairless on .
Dear Mr Fairless
It has been brought to my attention that the document to which you seek access is available under the Information Publication Scheme...
FOI Delegations - 2016
Response by Department of Finance to Ben Fairless on .
UNCLASSIFIED
Good afternoon Mr Fairless,
On the 25 November 2016, Finance, under administrative access, provided you with the Department's FOI delega...
FOI Delegations - 2016
Response by Regional Development Australia to Ben Fairless on .
Dear Mr Fairless
I refer to your email below.
Regional Development Australia (RDA) is a partnership between the Australian state and territory and lo...
Request for mobile communications via mobile applications
Response by Minister for Communications to Ben Fairless on .
For Official Use Only
Dear Mr Fairless
Please find attached a decision letter regarding your Freedo...
FOI Delegations - 2016
Response by Services Australia to Ben Fairless on .
Dear Mr Fairless
Please find attached correspondence in relation to your Freedom of
Information request (LEX 23413).
Regards
FOI Leg...
FOI Delegations - 2016
Follow up sent to Business Advisory Council by Ben Fairless on .
Can you update me on my request for FOI delegations/authorisations?
Yours faithfully,
Ben Fairless
FOI Delegations - 2016
Response by Australian Community Pharmacy Authority to Ben Fairless on .
Dear Mr Fairless
I refer to your email below to the mail inbox of the Australian Community Pharmacy Authority (ACPA) regarding a request for access to...
FOI Delegations - 2016
Response by Special Broadcasting Service Corporation to Ben Fairless on .
Dear Mr Fairless
Please find attached the SBS Decision Letter and documents for release.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact...
Documents related to 2016-510597
Response by Commonwealth Ombudsman to Ben Fairless on .
Dear Mr Fairless
I attach the following things in response to your Freedom of Information
request of 1 December 2016:
· My decisio...
FOI Delegations - 2016
Response by Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to Ben Fairless on .
UNCLASSIFIED
Dear Mr Fairless
As requested, please find attached.
Yours sincerely
DFAT FOI TEAM
[DFAT request email]
This email and any attachm...
FOI Delegations - 2016
Follow up sent to National Commission of Audit by Ben Fairless on .
Can you advise the status of my request made via Right to Know: https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/foi_delegations_2016_92
Yours faithfully,...
FOI Delegations - 2016
Follow up sent to Australian Political Exchange Council by Ben Fairless on .
Can you please advise the status of my request? The details are on Right to Know: https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/foi_delegations_2016_115...
Request for mobile communications via mobile applications
Response by Minister for Human Services to Ben Fairless on .
Good morning Mr Fairless,
Yes, the Minister’s devices were searched as part of your request.
Kind regards,
FOI Legal Team
FOI and L...
This person's 342 annotations (page 11)
Death of Ben Zygier a.k.a Ben Alon or Ben Allen cell number 15, an the gag order ruled in June 2010.
Hi Jamie, has the public information the Department released resolved your request?
Pinar, Right to know provide a unique email address for each request. If you give them your personal email address, then the updates will not be receiv...
Just a heads up, The authority can technically refuse access to documents which were or received after the date you made your request.
So, if you mak...
Just a heads up, we add this to every single request sent via Right to Know, and you are free to re-state it if you wish:
"This request is being made...
Hi Anonymouse, was there any further updates on this request at all that we can't see?
I think (I'm not a lawyer) that the way it works is that when the 14 days is up, the original 30 day clock starts. If I'm right (which I'm not sure on)...
I've resent the August 12, 2014 Follow-Up to Owen as requested by Sam.
If anyone cares for it, the AEC Mail Server (mailin-aec1.humanservices.gov.au)...
I find it really odd that they don't have this information in written form. They provided similar information to another user on RTK here - https://ww...
I find it really odd that they don't have this information in written form. They provided similar information to another user on RTK here - https://ww...
Hi David, to keep everything on the one request I moved the email from https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/list_of_distribution_areas_premi to here....
I find it incredulous there is no internal documents in relation to this request. Surely there has to be something?
Hi Daniel,
Just so you know, you don't need to accept a request for extension. You can refuse it if you prefer.
Cheers,
Ben
I've cleaned up the Spam here and stopped any further replies from coming to this request.
If you have any questions, please get in touch with the Ri...
Hi James, you might want to consider creating a campaign on Pozible or crowd sourcing the funds from friends or others who are interested in the docume...
FOI Request for Detail Incident Report 1-2P43C9
Request to Department of Home Affairs by Bartolomeo Anthony Portelli. Annotated by Ben Fairless on .
Odd, I only paid $9.90 for my request and it also contained 2 pages!
You are free to make another request if you want Robin, I think I'm going to leave this one be to be honest.
I've spoken with the FOI Officer and asked if I can discuss the matter informally with the Decision Maker prior to proceeding to Internal Review.
I have made an application to the Information Commissioner.
Complaint lodged with DIBP Feedback Unit (Ref: IMMI-14-12891) about the lack of contact regarding this request as I couldn't call to speak to Linda abo...
Looks like I marked it as "not held" and I don't know why. Should show "Partially Successful" and i'll update now :)
Cheers,
Ben
I've had a chat with Nicole by phone and indicated I would prefer the request is paused instead of withdrawn, as I don't want the clock to restart.
Document Containing the Word or Phrase "portrayal" or Similar
Request to Inspector General of Intelligence and Security by knav2013. Annotated by Ben Fairless on .
I would point out that just because an agency is exempt under FOI, doesn't mean they can't answer the questions voluntarily....
I wouldn't expect the email server and the proxy server to be the same..... I present a different IP address when browsing as the mail server at work....
Thanks Peter and Alex, I've used that information to respond to Steven. Hopefully the answer will be a bit more restricted!
Guy,
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For example, website owners (such as Right to Know) could be interested in re...