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.
Christmas Day 2018: I have returned after a long study absence. My English is now almost professional legal standard but not perfect. I understand most idioms but do not always produce them correctly.
I am just another user of Right to Know but I know a little bit about the Freedom of Information law in Australia. If you need any help with an application you can send me a message through Right to Know.
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This person's 599 annotations (page 15)
The information that Lotter West has sent to the applicant is not what he asked for but it is information that might be important if the applicant want...
Unfortunately, the applicant has marked this request as awaiting internal review. It is not. It is waiting for the applicant to pay an application fee....
Have a look at my annotation here (https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/pqs_12_months_requirement#comment-1644 ). It is also applicable to this reque...
This is strange. An internal review is not something to "suggest". The Act does not authorise an internal review unless it is requested by an applicant...
Often I read statements from FOI officers that say something that is in the correct direction but is not correct in all the details. The officer who ha...
In my opinion, this is a good response. It is not what the applicant wanted but the reasons for the decision are clear and the extra information that h...
I said in my last annotation that I though that the letter from the officer was "a very poorly explained letter ... but without drops of malice and sub...
For Kate Walsh, Executive Assistant to the Mayor & CEO, Alice Springs Town Council. Note that the name of the applicant is "Edan" but each email that y...
See the annotation at https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/arborists_report_following_inspe#comment-1627
If you are making a Freedom of Information request, it is useful to comply with the Act. At minimum you should say that you are asking for something, n...
Thank you Mr Wayne Morgan for the extra information to rest my curiosity.
As Mr Fairless shows, it is a fascinating mix up but I am not so sure that it is malice that motivates the strange answer. In fact, all the information...
I add only some small additional information to the very interesting points of law that Ms Chen has already made.
(1) ICAN is not only a body politic...
The Information Commissioner has suggested that an amount of 40 hours is a reasonable maximum time for an agency to process a request (https://www.oaic...
Sometimes I cannot understand the behaviour of some Australian government departments. I ask myself, did the officer behave in this way because she or...
Road transfer / jurisdiction
Request to Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure by Paddy Galvin. Annotated by Locutus Sum on .
LOL! I have made a mess in my annotation. The second last paragraph should be the last paragraph. I apologise but I cannot fix or edit it.
Road transfer / jurisdiction
Request to Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure by Paddy Galvin. Annotated by Locutus Sum on .
It is unfortunate that Right to Know, who makes it so easy to do many things, also makes it easy to go down the wrong street and make a mistake.
The...
Also it is useful to complain to the Australian Information Commissioner.
I expect that there will be no information. It is not usual for a government department in any country to ask "what is the effect of not doing R?" Usua...
I am confused. Also I am ignorant. For other readers, "PPSA Act" (really PPS Act, or PPSA) is the Personal Property Securities Act, 2009 (Cth) (https:/...
I did not understand "incidence" so I asked Google. Now I understand. (http://www.grammar-monster.com/easily_confused/incidence_incidents.htm )
The a...
Nobody will like this annotation ... but the request will, of course, be refused. It must be; not because it is an invalid request (which it is) but be...
I have made an annotation that is also a concern to this application but the annotation is on another request, here (https://www.righttoknow.org.au/req...
@Wayne Morgan: This is very interesting. I did not hear any report about the magistrate and I cannot find anything about it so I would like very much t...
I hope that my comments here are completely wrong (!) but the series of request including this one and the request about the "Removal of the Common Law...