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 492) (page 6)
FOI Delegations
Response by Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to Ben Fairless on .
UNCLASSIFIED
Dear Mr Fairless
Thank you for your email dated 14 November 2018 in which you seek access under administrative release to:
" Under sect...
FOI Delegations
Response by Department of Education to Ben Fairless on .
UNCLASSIFIED
Dear Mr Fairless
The Department of Education and Training (the department) acknowledges
receipt of your email below.
Please...
FOI Delegations
Response by Assistant Minister for Education and Training to Ben Fairless on .
UNCLASSIFIED
Dear Mr Fairless
The Department of Education and Training (the department) acknowledges
receipt of your FOI request below which y...
FOI Delegations
Response by Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Education to Ben Fairless on .
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Dear Mr Fairless
The Department of Education and Training (the department) acknowledges
receipt of your FOI request below which y...
FOI Delegations
Response by Australian Maritime Safety Authority to Ben Fairless on .
Dear Mr Fairless,
We refer to your email received by AMSA on 14 November 2018 whereby you requested a copy of the FOI delegations.
AMSA will disclose...
FOI Delegations
Response by Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity to Ben Fairless on .
UNCLASSIFIED
Good afternoon,
Please find attached ACLEI's response to your FOI request below, dated 23 November 2018.
Many thanks,
Australian Com...
Dear Mr Fairless
Thank you for the email below. I can confirm that the Department has already provided access to the section 23 FOI Authorisation inst...
FOI Delegations
Response by Commonwealth Consumer Affairs Advisory Council to Ben Fairless on .
Dear Mr Fairless
The Commonwealth Consumer Affairs Advisory Council is administered by the Treasury, so the Treasury’s section 23 arrangements apply t...
FOI Delegations
Response by Australian Hearing to Ben Fairless on .
Dear Mr Fairless,
Thank you for your e-mail request dated 14 November (copied below).
I can advise you that there is no arrangement in place ei...
FOI Delegations
Response by Australian Energy Regulator to Ben Fairless on .
Good morning Mr Fairless.
Please find attached letter for your consideration.
Regards.
Will Herron
FOI Coordinator
Corporate Law U...
FOI Delegations
Response by Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Environment to Ben Fairless on .
Thanks very much
Sent from my iPhone
FOI Delegations
Response by Department of Education, Skills and Employment to Ben Fairless on .
UNCLASSIFIED
Dear Mr Fairless,
I refer to your request, received by the Department of Jobs and Small
Business (the department) on 14 November...
FOI Delegations
Response by High Court of Australia to Ben Fairless on .
Dear Mr Fairless,
Under s 23(1) of the Act, a decision in respect of a request made to an agency may be made, on behalf of the agency, by the responsi...
FOI Delegations
Response by Australian Institute of Health and Welfare to Ben Fairless on .
Dear Ben Fairless
Please find attached the current arrangements for the 'Authorisation of Decision Maker and Review Officer', made pursuant section 23...
FOI Delegations
Response by Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation to Ben Fairless on .
Dear Mr Fairless
I refer to your request of 14 November 2018 addressed to the Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation (below).
I am unable...
FOI Delegations
Response by Minister's Dementia Advisory Group to Ben Fairless on .
Dear Mr Fairless
Background
I refer to four requests from you, received on 14 November 2018,
regarding:
1. The Department of Healt...
FOI Delegations
Response by Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on the Centenary of ANZAC to Ben Fairless on .
UNCLASSIFIED
Dear Mr Fairless
I am writing in relation to your request received on 14 November 2018 to
the Department of the Prime Minister and C...
FOI Delegations
Response by Department of Parliamentary Services to Ben Fairless on .
Dear Mr Fairless
We acknowledge receipt of your request for information as outlined below,
received via email 14 November 2018.
In accorda...
FOI Delegations
Response by Minister Assisting on Queensland Floods Recovery to Ben Fairless on .
UNCLASSIFIED
Dear Mr Fairless
I refer to your below request which is directed to the Minister Assisting on Queensland Floods Recovery. No such Ministe...
FOI Delegations
Response by Minister for Justice to Ben Fairless on .
UNCLASSIFIED
Dear Mr Fairless
I refer to your below request which is directed to the Minister for Justice. No such Minister exists. Given this, can yo...
FOI Delegations
Response by Australian Secret Intelligence Service to Ben Fairless on .
UNCLASSIFIED
Dear Mr Fairless,
Please find below our response to your enquiry regarding FOI delegations.
ASIS is an 'exempt agency' under Division...
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 ;)
FOI Delegations
Response by Australian Federal Police to Ben Fairless on .
UNCLASSIFIED
Dear Mr Fairless
Please find attached the Australian Federal Police Delegations pursuant to section 23 of the Freedom of Information Act...
FOI Delegations
Response by Australian Security Intelligence Organisation to Ben Fairless on .
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Good morning,
Thank you for your email to this organisation requesting information under the Freedom of Information Act...
FOI Delegations
Response by Tourism Australia to Ben Fairless on .
That's correct.
Kind regards,
Debbie Gordon
General Counsel, Tourism Australia
T: +61 2 9361 1356 | E: [email address]
Office: Level 29 420 George S...
This person's 342 annotations (page 6)
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....
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-...
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.
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...
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 .
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 .
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.
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...
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...
Interesting idea, but I doubt this request will be successful:
- Passwords aren't in a readable format, they are normally encrypted, and they shouldn'...
Waiver of Privacy Act Personal Information Disclosure Certificate - Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Digital Readiness and Other Measures) Bill 2016 -
Request to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by Verity Pane. Annotated by Ben Fairless on .
The OAIC are, in most cases, the gold standard for responses to FOI requests. They may even offer to release the Information outside of the Act if requ...
Hi UD,
This request would normally be hidden because it's a request for information, but that could be avoided if you excluded the actual personal in...
Generally speaking, personal information about someone who made an anonymous complaint won't be released as it would interfere with the other persons p...
The OpenAustralia Foundation (the charity that looks after Right to Know) has published a blog post in relation to the response from the ATO;: https://...
You Just need to click "Reply" and send a reply..... annotations aren't sent to the authority I'm afraid - Ben
Also, my.gov.au is run by the department of human services, not Communications. You could ask them: https://www.righttoknow.org.au/new/dhs
Hey Alan,
Ben here - I'm a volunteer on this site.
The department of Communications probably doesn't monitor apps that are available to turn on/off...
Looks like we had an old email address for the FOI team, but the email was still accepted. Quite odd.
I've updated the address and resent all reques...
Looks like we had an old email address for the FOI team, but the email was still accepted. Quite odd.
I've updated the address and resent all reques...
Looks like we had an old email address for the FOI team, but the email was still accepted. Quite odd.
I've updated the address and resent all reques...