Henare Degan
Joined Right To Know in 2012
I'm one of the people that made Right To Know. I sometimes annotate requests as an administrator and I try to make that clear. My other requests and annotations are probably done in a personal capacity.
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This person's 38 Freedom of Information requests
Cost of Twitter advertising in 2017
Response by Australian Bureau of Statistics to Henare Degan on .
Successful.
Dear Ms Degan
In response to your Freedom of Information request received on 11 November
2017, please find attached the formal response from the ABS...
Funding from Bellingen Shire Council to .id
Response by Bellingen Shire Council to Henare Degan on .
Refused.
eMaternity Privacy and Data Sharing Policies
Request sent to NSW Ministry of Health by Henare Degan on .
Long overdue.
eMaternity is the electronic medical record (EMR) for all maternity outpatients encounters. This system collects significant personal data of matern...
Ministerial Diary for July 2014
Long overdue.
Worth following this up again given the recent court orders re AG diary being resolved?
Decision to run promos before iview programmes
Follow up sent to Australian Broadcasting Corporation by Henare Degan on .
Successful.
Hi Ruth,
That's really helpful, thank you. Please also pass on my thanks to the other ABC staff for taking the time to respond to my information requ...
BOM weather app Digital Service Standard self-assessment reports
Information not held.
It's worth noting that the DTA publish all assessment reports against the Digital Service Standard: https://www.dta.gov.au/standard/assessments/
Sinc...
Citizenship Loss Board - AFP Participation
Follow up sent to Australian Federal Police by Henare Degan on .
Successful.
Hi Jacqueline,
Thanks for all your work on this request, it's really appreciated. Special thanks for releasing the documents well ahead of the extend...
I requested these documents because in this Crikey article https://www.crikey.com.au/2016/11/03/government-diaries-released-sort/ they correctly compla...
Digital Economy - Research - Open Government Data
Follow up sent to Department of Communications and the Arts by Henare Degan on .
Successful.
Hi Leonie,
Superb, thanks for the quick and helpful response. I hope you have a great weekend.
Cheers,
Henare Degan
Decision to put advertising on Bureau of Meteorology website
Response by Bureau of Meteorology to Henare Degan on .
Successful.
Thanks for letting me know, Henare.
Kind regards,
Erin
Erin MacLatchy | FOI & Privacy Officer
Tel: +61 3 9616 8428
Passenger numbers on Sydney to Brisbane sleeper services in 2015
Follow up sent to NSW TrainLink by Henare Degan on .
Successful.
Hi Kim,
Thanks so much for the prompt and helpful response.
Cheers,
Henare
My Marrickville app development costs
Response by Marrickville Council to Henare Degan on .
Successful.
Tuesday, 14 June 2016
Formal Determination - Degan
Dear Henare,
Please find attached a copy of the determination made in response to...
Hi David,
That's really helpful, thanks to taking the time to look into my request.
Cheers,
Henare
Gamma International’s FinFisher
Refused.
This request is mentioned at the end of this article, "NSW Police use hacking software to spy on computers and smartphones: WikiLeaks data"
http://ww...
Volume and categories of problems reported
Follow up sent to City of Sydney by Henare Degan on .
Successful.
Hi Peri,
That's wonderful, thanks so much for getting me that information!
Cheers,
Henare
2 Station Street, Marrickville development application suggested changes & withdrawal
Follow up sent to Marrickville Council by Henare Degan on .
Successful.
This is wonderful - thank you so much for such a prompt and helpful response!
Yours sincerely,
Henare Degan
2014/00006992 Students of Sustainability Protest March for Aboriginal Sovereignty
Response by Australian Federal Police to Henare Degan on .
Successful.
UNCLASSIFIED
Part 3 of 3
Dear Mr Degan,
Please find attached a copy of AFP decision regarding your Freedom of
Information request – CRM2...
Oldest will held by will storage service
Follow up sent to NT Public Trustee by Henare Degan on .
Long overdue.
I'd like to follow up my request. Have you had time to have a look at it?
Yours faithfully,
Henare Degan
SBS Code of Conduct
Follow up sent to Special Broadcasting Service Corporation by Henare Degan on .
Successful.
Thanks Therese!
Web traffic for data.gov.au in 2014
Response by Department of Finance to Henare Degan on .
Successful.
Thank you for your email to the Freedom of Information section of the
Department of Finance (Finance). We have received your email and will
endeavou...
Internal discussions about not issuing annual or 6 month parking permits
Follow up sent to City of Darwin Council by Henare Degan on .
Partially successful.
Hi Karlheins,
Thanks for sending through these documents.
Cheers,
Henare
Fell Review Report into the EPA's performance concerning Orica and Botany Industrial Park
Follow up sent to NSW Environment Protection Authority by Henare Degan on .
Successful.
Hi Sylvia,
Thank you for taking the time to make those documents available. I really appreciate your prompt and helpful assistance.
Yours sincerely...
Public comments on "Northern Territory Code of Practice for Responsible for Online Gambling" and the "Conditions of Licence for the conduct of the business of a Sports Bookmaker"
Response by NT Racing Commission to Henare Degan on .
Waiting clarification.
Good morning,
Please find attached a Freedom of Information (FOI) application form to be completed and within the scope of the request the more precis...
Andrew Barr's Ministerial Diary - January 2015
Response by ACT Chief Minister, Treasury And Economic Development Directorate to Henare Degan on .
Information not held.
Dear Mr Degan
Apologies for the delay in providing you with a response to your request.
A decision has now been finalised and is attached.
Please fe...
Ministerial Diary for December 2014
Follow up sent to Minister for Foreign Affairs by Henare Degan on .
Successful.
Wonderful, thank you James!
Cheers,
Henare
This person's 155 annotations
Travel Details for Minister Hon Josh Frydenberg MP to Adelaide for period 14th March 2017 to 17th March 2017
Request to Department of the Environment and Energy by Richard Smith. Annotated by Henare Degan on .
Successful.
Hi Richard,
Bravo in using a prepaid credit card - you had us worried for a while! :) We've redacted the details anyway.
Thanks also from us to the...
We've checked this address and attempted to resend the original request however it's still being rejected by the authority's mail server.
We've now s...
A Right To Know community member marked this request as having a delivery error.
The initial reply from the authority suggests we had the wrong email...
contracts published on Tenders Vic
Request to Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance by Ben Minerds (PuZZleDucK). Annotated by Henare Degan on .
Successful.
What an epic journey - well done for being so persistent Ben!
It will be interesting to see how long it takes before the authority does publish this...
Document(s) pertaining to the cost estimates and budgeting for Victoria Police’s “Operation Safenight” created prior to May 1, 2017
Information not held.
Not the most unhelpful response I've seen but a cheque, in 2017, srsly? :-/
>It would also be helpful to provide a postal address to return any futur...
Document(s) pertaining to the cost estimates and budgeting for Victoria Police’s “Operation Safenight” created prior to May 1, 2017
Information not held.
Ah, the classic silly-buggers of the authority responding to your FOI request by pretending they didn't see your, err, FOI request. The next step is to...
Astonishing. NSW Police Force seem to have gone that extra mile just to make sure you can't access this information and they've done it in the least tr...
Disclosure log
Long overdue.
An eagle-eyed member of the Right To Know community spotted this request by the authority to have their address changed and reported it to us (thanks M...
Bond Transfers in NSW
Waiting clarification.
Hi Justin,
In the first instance you should ask the authority if they can process your request as an informal request. Here's an example of an author...
Why is this request marked as successful? There doesn't seem to be any information released, only an acknowledgement email :(
Unique Student Identifier exemptions
Successful.
Over on the OpenAustralia Foundation blog Moz pointed out that the links in the authority's response don't work: https://www.openaustraliafoundation.or...
List of information requests to the department
Request to NT Department of the Attorney-General and Justice by Luke Bacon. Annotated by Henare Degan on .
Successful.
Thanks to a quick fix by the technical staff at nt.gov.au emails are once again working. The original message has been resent (and already has a reply,...
List of information requests to the department
Request to NT Department of the Attorney-General and Justice by Luke Bacon. Annotated by Henare Degan on .
Successful.
Strange that messages have only just started to be marked as spam. I've emailed the nt.gov.au postmaster to ask them to fix it. When they get back to u...
Hi Andrea,
This looks like a really interesting request. I hope you're going to try and continue to get this request processed on Right To Know so we...
Removal of information from data retention FAQ web page
Withdrawn by the requester.
Hi JT,
Click the "Follow" button at the top-right of the request page and Right To Know will keep you posted about this FOI request.
Cheers,
Hena...
BOM weather app Digital Service Standard self-assessment reports
Information not held.
It's worth noting that the DTA publish all assessment reports against the Digital Service Standard: https://www.dta.gov.au/standard/assessments/
Sinc...
FOI Delegations - 2016
Successful.
It's all fixed now and I've resent this request. Thanks to Chris at the authority for looking into and fixing this problem.
Cheers,
Henare
Right T...
FOI Delegations - 2016
Successful.
Hi Ben,
Thanks for reporting this delivery error. I just tried emailing the FOI Co-ordinator's address to report the problem and got the same error....
Information regarding Shires financial undwertaking regarding Management Contract let for Merredin Regional Community and Leisure Centre
Waiting clarification.
Hi Peter,
Do not despair! As the council says, the Act only says that requests *may* be submitted using those antiquated means. It's not a requiremen...
Taxpayer funds spent on the 'More Power To You' Website
Request to WA Department of the Premier and Cabinet by Anthony Maher. Annotated by Henare Degan on .
Information not held.
Hi Anthony,
I'd first suggest you go ahead and make a new request for this information from the WA Department of Finance:
https://www.righttoknow.o...
Hi James,
The Office of the Information Commissioner Queensland suggests, "You can also ask if you can access the information through one of the agen...
The Australian Classification Database
Partially successful.
Woo - any chance you could upload it somewhere? It would be great to have it on this request.
The Australian Classification Database
Partially successful.
This request is marked as successful. Did you get the database?
Cost benefit analysis for BOM weather app
Partially successful.
The authority wants to charge $170. They estimate it will take 8 hours to find the document and 7.5 hours to review it (decision-making time).
This s...
I've updated the address for this authority and resent this request.
The authority still has their old address listed on their RTI page :(
https://...
