JS - Freedom of Information requests

Failure by the Department of Home Affairs to comply with FOI Law

Response by Department of Home Affairs to JS on May 07, 2021.

Awaiting classification.

OFFICIAL Dear JS FOI request FA 21/02/00327 I refer to your FOI request received on 2 February 2021, seeking access to the following:...

Documents or records concerning the use of Clearview technology by AFP

Follow up sent to Australian Federal Police by JS on May 06, 2021.

Successful.

Thank you for the documents. Yours sincerely, JS

Australian Public Service Commissioner – Inquiries – Agency Heads

Response by Australian Public Service Commission to JS on April 23, 2021.

Awaiting classification.

OFFICIAL Dear JS, Please find attached correspondence relating to your recent freedom of information request. Regards, FOI Officer Legal Services A...

AAT Disclosure Log - access to documents

Follow up sent to Administrative Appeals Tribunal by JS on March 22, 2021.

Successful.

Thank you for the documents. The AAT Disclosure Log is seriously outdated. Yours sincerely, JS

Failure by the Department of Home Affairs to comply with FOI Law

Follow up sent to Minister for the Public Service and Integrity by JS on March 22, 2021.

Information not held.

Thank you for your decision. Searches carried out by staff of the office revealed no documents fall within the scope of the FOI application. Docum...

News Corp Google Rudd Petition Outrage ACCC

Follow up sent to Australian Competition and Consumer Commission by JS on March 11, 2021.

Information not held.

Thank you for your decision and observations on the comments attributed to the Chair of the ACCC Mr Rod Sims in an article that appeared in the AFR....

Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme

Follow up sent to Attorney-General's Department by JS on February 17, 2021.

Successful.

Dear Sarah Thank you Yours sincerely, JS

Compilation of Documents relating to Palantir Training

Follow up sent to Australian Crime Commission by JS on February 17, 2021.

Successful.

Thank you for the documents, Yours sincerely, JS

Records relating to Building Code compliance activities involving Hutchinson Builders.

Follow up sent to Australian Building and Construction Commission by JS on February 02, 2021.

Partially successful.

Thank you for the documents. With the removal of the entries dated 9/5/2018, 4/6/2019, 26/6/2019, 18/8/2019 and 2/12/2019 and 28/5/2019 from the...

Department of Home Affairs and the FOI Act - Disclosure Log

Follow up sent to Minister for Home Affairs by JS on January 30, 2021.

Partially successful.

Thank you for your decision and the four documents. The FOI application was addressed to the Minister for Home Affairs and sought official documen...

Failure by the Department of Home Affairs to comply with FOI Law

Follow up sent to Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet by JS on January 28, 2021.

Information not held.

Thank you for the decision. Under the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act the accountable authority of each entity has a Duty to...

ABCC - disclosure log

Follow up sent to Australian Building and Construction Commission by JS on January 23, 2021.

Information not held.

Thank you. Yours sincerely, JS

Department of Home Affairs and the FOI Act - Disclosure Log

Follow up sent to Minister for the Public Service and Integrity by JS on November 17, 2020.

Withdrawn by the requester.

The FOI request transferred to the Department of Home Affairs has been withdrawn. https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/d... Yours sincerely,...

Department of Home Affairs and the FOI Act - Disclosure Log

Follow up sent to Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet by JS on November 17, 2020.

Withdrawn by the requester.

The FOI request transferred to the Department of Home Affairs has been withdrawn. https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/department_of_home_affai...

Email correspondence between the ABCC Commissioner and the APS Commissioner

Follow up sent to Australian Building and Construction Commission by JS on October 12, 2020.

Successful.

Thank you Yours sincerely, JS

Details of intimidation, harassment and/or threatening behaviour against ABCC staff by CFMMEU

Follow up sent to Australian Building and Construction Commission by JS on October 12, 2020.

Successful.

Thank you Yours sincerely, JS

documents relating to the 2017-18 performance evaluation of the Executive Director of the Registered Organisations Commission

Follow up sent to Registered Organisations Commission by JS on October 12, 2020.

Successful.

Thank you Yours sincerely, JS

Dept of Home Affairs - Non Compliance with FOI legislation Disclosure Log

Follow up sent to Department of Home Affairs by JS on September 24, 2020.

Partially successful.

Thank you for the decision. The Department has considered the Australian Information Commissioner’s guidelines relating to the interpretation, ope...

ABCC iBenefit employee benefits program

Follow up sent to Australian Building and Construction Commission by JS on September 08, 2020.

Successful.

Thank you for providing the documents. A new contract on Austender ( an arrangement unique to the ABCC it seems) : CN3715369 Agency: Austr...

Wilson , Human Rights Commissioner and the IPA

Follow up sent to Australian Human Rights Commission by JS on September 08, 2020.

Successful.

Thank you. Yours sincerely, JS

Notices Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Act 2018

Follow up sent to Attorney-General's Department by JS on August 22, 2020.

Successful.

Thank you Yours sincerely, JS

Letter - Attorney-General to Professor Terry Carney in September 2017

Follow up sent to Attorney-General's Department by JS on August 22, 2020.

Successful.

Thank you. Yours sincerely, JS

ABCC iBenefit employee benefit program documents not disclosed in ABCC Log

Follow up sent to Australian Building and Construction Commission by JS on August 19, 2020.

Withdrawn by the requester.

The ABCC asserts in the Disclosure Log that the applicant was given access to documents on 17 April 2020. The RTK website establishes that the ABCC...

Documents that mention Mark Dreyfus FOI 120/020

Follow up sent to Attorney-General's Department by JS on May 01, 2020.

Successful.

Thank you for the documents Yours sincerely, JS

Disclosure Log documents 37/2019 - 39/2019

Response by Australian Federal Police to JS on May 01, 2020.

Information not held.

Thank you for your email. Please note that this is an automated response to confirm that your email was sent to the Australian Federal Police Freedo...

Failure by the Department of Home Affairs to comply with FOI Law

Request to Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet by JS. Annotated by JS on November 21, 2020.

Information not held.

Ben Thanks - I agree about OAIC but decided to try the others first, OAIC is under-funded and overworked. OAIC is to report shortly on its investig...

Information on Wikileaks, its Australian staff, and Julian Assange.

Request to Australian Signals Directorate by Snehan Kekre. Annotated by JS on April 24, 2020.

Long overdue.

ASD is exempt from the operation of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 - see annual report https://www.asd.gov.au/publications/annual-report-2018-19...

Gift Registry - last 3 years

Request to Airservices Australia by Phil Richards. Annotated by JS on September 10, 2019.

Successful.

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/scott-morrison-orders-secret-gift-registers-to-be-made-public-after-news-corp-investigation/news-story/...

Politicians' Pensions

Request to Department of Finance by Birdie. Annotated by JS on March 24, 2019.

Partially successful.

See https://williamsummers.blog/2019/03/15/the-truth-about-parliamentary-pensions/

Documents not available for download from your FOI disclosure log / reasoning

Request to Attorney-General's Department by Posty. Annotated by JS on February 26, 2019.

Successful.

Posty Up to August 2013 the Dept published documents in its disclosure log. Around the time of the change in Government in Sept 2013 the Department...

Decisions about publishing on the FOI Disclosure Log

Request to Attorney-General's Department by Evelyn Doyle. Annotated by JS on February 15, 2019.

Partially successful.

A benefit flowing from the RTK site : Not as much redaction in the documents released as part of this FOI application. https://www.righttoknow.org...

Documents not available for download from your FOI log or reasoning

Request to Department of Home Affairs by Posty. Annotated by JS on January 14, 2019.

Waiting clarification.

In evidence to the Senate (albeit not about FOI legislation ) the Secretary of Home Affairs, Michael Pezzullo stated : “You set the laws. The laws th...

FOI Delegations

Request to Department of Home Affairs by Ben Fairless. Annotated by JS on December 10, 2018.

Successful.

An authorised officer spends an hour searching for the document that confirms that the officer is an authorised officer and then the authorised office...

AFP documents relating to Operation Taupe and previous FOI request

Request to Australian Federal Police by JS. Annotated by JS on September 14, 2018.

Successful.

Links to documents on AFP disclosure log: https://www.afp.gov.au/sites/default/files/PDF/Disclosure-Log/6-2018.pdf https://www.afp.gov.au/sites/defa...

Hadgkiss and Lloyd

Request to Australian Public Service Commission by D Kemp. Annotated by JS on August 28, 2018.

Refused.

Curiously, the letter does not disclose that the first five hours of decision making time is free. (5 x $20). Had it been considered it is likely it w...

Dissemination by the FWBC of false information - ethics and accountability in the Commonwealth Public Sector

Request to Australian Building and Construction Commission by JS. Annotated by JS on October 09, 2017.

Long overdue.

Fliccy I am not a public servant and I have had no dealings with FWBC (now ABCC) It was an article in the Canberra Times entitled “Public service...

Official functions

Request to Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet by alan cole. Annotated by JS on October 07, 2017.

Successful.

A Privacy Notice should be included in official invitations to the effect that names and positions of those attending will be disclosed under FOI. If...

Correspondence relating to 'righttoknow.org.au'

Request to Australian Taxation Office by Peter Tonoli. Annotated by JS on July 11, 2017.

Refused.

Pages 3 to 7 (at least) of ATO’s responses to FOI applications by Ato Nduvho and Mark Newton would appear to fall within your FOI request.

Ministerial Briefing for Alan Tudge interview with Triple J Hack 21 February 2017

Request to Services Australia by CD. Annotated by JS on May 30, 2017.

Successful.

The disclosure log indicates access was given on 18 April; OAIC Guidelines Part 14 14.22 Agencies and ministers must publish information in a disc...

FOI Request: Perpetual Centrelink Calendar 107-03040000

Request to Services Australia by Posty. Annotated by JS on March 19, 2017.

Partially successful.

This decision may have some relevance http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/AICmr/2017/18.html Ben Butler and Australian Securities and Investme...

Transcript of the Hearing of the Standing Committee of Economics

Request to Department of the House of Representatives by Phillip Sweeney. Annotated by JS on October 18, 2016.

Awaiting internal review.

You will find the transcripts at the link under public hearings for each inquiry for the four organisations listed http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

Drivers lose out on fuel-price comparison app

Request to Australian Competition and Consumer Commission by JS. Annotated by JS on October 30, 2014.

Successful.

Parts of page 5 Document 23 are redacted. Page 3 of Document 16 is revealing. Page 2 of Document 16, (paragraph 4.8.1 ) has been fully redacted i...

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