Locutus Sum
Joined Right To Know in 2013
Just a girl who likes to write, and likes the law, and likes to write about the law.
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Freedom of Information requests made by this person
This person has made no Freedom of Information requests using this site.
This person's 338 annotations
Taskforce on Hospital Funding
Waiting clarification.
The applicant has until 23 July 2017 to make a contest to the charges.
Lawfulness of the Infringements Court
Request to Victorian Department of Justice & Regulation by John Andrews. Annotated by Locutus Sum on .
Refused.
I must begin to say that I know nothing of the Infringements Court but I have a suggestion of something that you might find interesting to read and con...
Internet Censorship Blacklist
Awaiting response.
@James Baldwin (https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/internet_censorship_blacklist#comment-1879 ) I am sorry that I did not see your comment sooner;...
Report on surveyed gum tree at my property
Long overdue.
The council has not responded properly but also, the request is not truly valid because it is not accompanied by an application fee.
Australia Post Briefings
Long overdue.
A response has been delayed so that the agency can consult. A response is due by 20 July 2017.
Methods for paying FOI request charges to the Department of Human Services
Waiting clarification.
The applicant has been allowed 30 days from 21 June 2017 to agree to the new charges or to request an internal review. If these things are not done the...
Costs associated with the Pacific Adventurer incident 2009
Information not held.
The agency does not have the information requested by the applicant. Even so with this, the agency has given two links in their decision letter. The li...
Impact of protracted bargaining on ATO employee morale
Awaiting classification.
It is in fact not obvious on Right to Know what the status of this request is. The applicant has to look somewhere else for the information. If a perso...
Privacy training in the Defence Department
Successful.
I agree with the applicant; the response from the agency was very informative. Also, it was prompt, and managed administratively without the machinery...
Note to the applicant: If you are familiar with section 15(5)(a) of the Act then you will also know that the agency is required to acknowledge your req...
Copy of DA and BA for flats at 3 Lachlan Street, Warwick Farm
Partially successful.
This is an interesting decision because it makes a reference to copyright. I have not already seen this happen. Here, the council will not give a copy...
Reporting of CN3174232
Partially successful.
The applicant incorrectly marked this request as if it were awaiting an internal review. That was not correct. Internal review has a specific meaning u...
This is a very strange and interesting request. Mr Fairless writes with a request to the department of the Attorney General (the "AGD"). AGD replies to...
Strange. The agency tries to quote s 59 of the GIPA Act but instead of copying the words from an original text, they retype it, and then make spelling...
Privacy Act s 98 Information Commissioner Initiated Applications
Request to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by Verity Pane. Annotated by Locutus Sum on .
Partially successful.
I make this note only for a purpose to make something clear to other users of Right to Know. In the first email the applicant mentions "s 17 FOI reques...
Internet Censorship Blacklist
Awaiting response.
The response is very helpful but it is wrong in an important way. It is helpful because it tells the applicant two things. 1. The agency does not have...
I think that I owe Mr Fairless an apology. If not an apology then at least an acknowledgement that his annotation (https://www.righttoknow.org.au/reque...
Cooks Cove Precinct Correspondence
Request to Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet by Lewis Godwin. Annotated by Locutus Sum on .
Refused.
By what authority did the agency deem the request to have been withdrawn? Maybe I do not know the Act well but I cannot see any power for the agency to...
Internet Censorship Blacklist
Awaiting response.
I believe that the last documents to be released (https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Talk:Australian_government_secret_ACMA_internet_censorship_blacklist,_6_Au...
The response certainly does not meet the demands of the Freedom of Information Act. However, I am not sure that the ACTEWAGL is subject to the Act. To...
The applicant has cancelled the request but did not mark it on Right to Know as "withdrawn". I have marked it as refused because this is the best avail...
Unless the applicant has contacted the agency without Right to Know, then by force of s 24AB(7) of the FOI Act, the request will be taken to have been...
Refusal to Provide a Statement of Reasons
Request to Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority by Adam Presnell. Annotated by Locutus Sum on .
Refused.
It is now, I believe, beyond the power of the Information Commissioner to review any aspect of the request. The applicant might have requested IC revie...
1. Applicant writes with a request. The request comprises four parts. Part 1 is, in my opinion, incomprehensible and certainly not a valid request for...
Imagine that I use Right to Know to create an FOI request for the Department of Everything Else. I create the request on 1 January. I click all the cor...
