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 489) (page 13)
UNCLASSIFIED
Our references: FA 16/11/00184; ADF2016/65885
Dear Mr Fairless
The Department has finalised a decision on your FOI request....
FOI Delegations - 2016
Response by Australian Grand Prix Corporation to Ben Fairless on .
Information not held.
Dear Mr Fairless
The Australian Grand Prix Corporation (Corporation) is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Vic) in regards to all FOI req...
FOI Delegations - 2016
Response by Australian Prudential Regulation Authority to Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Fairless
I attach APRA's FOI decision and the document you requested.
Kind regards
Ben Carruthers
FOI Delegations - 2016
Response by Australian Renewable Energy Agency to Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Fairless
We acknowledge that you have requested ARENA release to you its ‘current
FOI Delegations, and any related directions issued in...
UNCLASSIFIED
Good afternoon Mr Fairless
Please find attached the AFP’s decision in relation to your Freedom of
Information request.
Kind...
FOI Delegations - 2016
Response by International Air Services Commission to Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Fairless
Thank you for your email. We apologise for the delay in responding.
Please find attached a copy of our current FOI Delegation as req...
FOI Delegations - 2016
Response by Australian Sports Foundation to Ben Fairless on .
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Dear Ben
Thank you for your request for a copy of the current FOI Delegations, and
any related directions issued in respect of FOI.
I am a...
FOI Delegations - 2016
Response by Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications to Ben Fairless on .
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Dear Mr Fairless
I can advise you that the decision maker for this request, has agreed to provide you with the document attached, outside of the Freed...
Dear Mr Fairless
Thank you for your correspondence dated 2 November 2016.
In response to your enquiry, I am pleased to advise that the info...
FOI Delegations - 2016
Response by Australian Transport Safety Bureau to Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Fairless,
I refer to...
Dear Mr Fairless,
The Department’s current FOI delegations are available through our
Information Publication Scheme:
[1]https://docs.educa...
FOI Delegations - 2016
Response by Australian Skills Quality Authority to Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Fairless,
We write in response to your email of 2 November 2016 requesting:
‘… a copy of the current FOI Delegations, a...
FOI Delegations - 2016
Response by Commonwealth Grants Commission to Ben Fairless on .
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Dear Mr Fairless
No authorisations either.
Yours faithfully
Phil Parkins
Director of Corporate Services
Commonwealth Grants Commission
Telephone 02...
FOI Delegations - 2016
Response by Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority to Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Fairless,
Please see the attached in relation to your request. I note that the
Principal Officer of ASADA (the CEO) has delegated the au...
FOI Delegations - 2016
Response by Australian Government Financial Literacy Board to Ben Fairless on .
Information not held.
Dear Mr Fairless,
We refer to your request addressed to the Australian Government Financial
Literacy Board (AGFLB) for "a copy of the current FOI D...
FOI Delegations - 2016
Response by Australian Human Rights Commission to Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
Ben I will assume that’s an agreement to withdraw unless I hear from you otherwise.
Many thanks
Michelle
Michelle Lindley
Deputy Director
Legal Sectio...
FOI Delegations - 2016
Response by Australian Maritime Safety Authority to Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Fairless,
We refer to your email received by AMSA on 2 November 2016 whereby you requested “…a copy of the current FOI delegations, and any re...
UNCLASSIFIED
Dear Mr Fairless,
I refer to your email dated 2 November 2016. The Australian Competition
Tribunal does not have any current FOI...
FOI Delegations - 2016
Response by Defence Force Discipline Appeal Tribunal to Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
UNCLASSIFIED
Dear Mr Fairless
I refer to your email dated 2 November 2016 addressed to the Defence Force
Discipline Appeal Tribunal. The Defen...
FOI Delegations - 2016
Response by Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation to Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Fairless
Attached are the following:
1. AP 1428 Consolidated Freedom Information procedure (a
consolidation of AP 1428 and A...
FOI Delegations - 2016
Response by Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
Good afternoon,
Please find attached letter for your consideration.
Regards,
Sonya Petreski
FOI Administration Assistant | Corporat...
For Official Use Only
Good afternoon Mr Fairless,
Please find attached Comcare’s decision notice and attached FOI
Delegations per your request...
FOI Delegations - 2016
Follow up sent to Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet by Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
Thanks for your email! All good.
Yours sincerely,
Ben Fairless
FOI Delegations - 2016
Response by Department of Education, Skills and Employment to Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Fairless,
We refer to your below email and your email of 2 November 2016 to the
Department’s National Workplace Relations Consultative C...
Dear Mr Fairless,
I refer to your request received by the Department of Social Services (the
Department) on 2 November 2016. I note that you hav...
This person's 341 annotations (page 13)
Manus Island Officer Reports
Refused.
A few things I would point out here....
Firstly, EFT is an option if (like me) you don't want to be sending your credit card details around the place...
The last email from the OAIC has been moved from this request: https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/media_conferences
It goes without saying that i...
I think this is a record for FOI Charges. $2555.33 for 146 documents!
Is the Commonwealth of Australia, registered as a coorporation in the USA, a legal entity under the Australian Constitution?
Information not held.
Hi AJ,
If there was any further correspondence from the Department, it would be visible here (Right to Know does not hide responses from Authorities...
I've made a request for the *actual* document which should have been attached here - https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/copy_of_document_staff_emai...
Stats regarding increase or decrease of bullying in high schools.
Information not held.
I've updated the Education Dept email address and resent the request.
Thanks,
Ben Fairless
Right to Know Administrator
Hi Elias, can you tell us if you have decided to withdraw this request?
Thanks,
Ben
Correspondence related to: "A Storyboard on People Smuggling"
Request to Department of Home Affairs by Samuel Pufendorf (Account suspended). Annotated by Ben Fairless on .
Withdrawn by the requester.
This request has been marked as withdrawn as the user in question is suspended, and has not replied to a request to update their request from Right to...
GLORICIDE
Request to Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority by Adam Presnell. Annotated by Ben Fairless on .
Refused.
All,
The last email sent by the requestor has been hidden as it does not comply with our Guidelines. I have put a block on any further comments at th...
myGov Privacy Impact Assessment
Partially successful.
If you get any attachments or PDF documents etc, feel free to send an email from your registered email address on Right to Know to contact@righttoknow....
FOI Request for Detail Incident Report 1-44AA0Y
Waiting clarification.
Perhaps it would be a good idea to ask DIBP to resend with the attachments.
Seach for MH370
Information not held.
Hi, just a note that annotations aren't sent to the agency.
If you want to send a response, you need to select "Write a Reply" at the bottom of the...
Seach for MH370
Information not held.
Right to Know is designed to allow people to easily make FOI requests, and to make the released documents public. As Locutus Sum has already pointed ou...
Request has been reassigned in Right to Know to the Department of Health at the request of DFAT FOI, as the request is now with Health.
Cheers,
Ben...
Manus Island CCTV Footage
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How they go from 900 pages to nothing after you clarify what you are looking for seems a bit suss. I don't need to tell you, but perhaps an Internal Re...
Government brief.
Successful.
Hi JS, You've sent them only part of the link. The full link is "https://www.righttoknow.org.au/upload/ request/government_brief" (remove the spaces an...
Government brief.
Successful.
JS,
You can actually ask the Department to upload the document via Right to Know, by using the link at https://www.righttoknow.org.au/upload/request/...
Manus Island CCTV Footage
Information not held.
Can't help but wonder if they are using a Practical Refusal reason to get around your refusal of their request for an extension.... but no, they wouldn...
Australia's Declaration of Independence
Information not held.
To be fair, the request is probably one which isn't received on a regular basis.
If what I've read online is correct (which I'm sure is over simplif...
Australia's Declaration of Independence
Information not held.
Hi Ben, the email sent was just an acknowledgement of the request and detailing next steps. I don't think additional clarification was required :)
Ch...
I've updated Right to Know to reflect that this request has been transferred to Finance
Thanks
Privacy Impact Assessment of the Document Verification Service
Withdrawn by the requester.
I did some googling as I was interested to know what this service does. I found this - http://www.ag.gov.au/RightsAndProtections/IdentitySecurity/Docum...
NDIA Employees Superannuation Benefit
Successful.
Hi,
I've added the National Disability Insurance Agency as an authority on Right to Know and I've moved the request over to them on Right to Know....
East West Link business case
Refused.
I've resent this email as we were advised that the FOI contact email address was incorrect.
How is Australia being protected from the threat of Islam?
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