Verity Pane
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This person's 75 Freedom of Information requests
Documents relating to the Work, Health and Safety Act 2011 and the identification of public sector employees
Response by Office of the Australian Information Commissioner to Verity Pane on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Ms Pane
Thank you for your email.
I have noted your revised scope.
As previously advised, as we received your request on 8 Novem...
TRIM audit log for FOI 23863 Decision and Statement of Reasons Word Document and for FOI 23863 section 17 document (Word Document)
Follow up sent to Department of Veterans' Affairs by Verity Pane on .
Delayed.
IC Review it is then
Documents that relate to scoping study calculations for DVA FOI 23544 & DVA FOI 23863 & DVA FOI 21147
Follow up sent to Department of Veterans' Affairs by Verity Pane on .
Long overdue.
IC Review it is then
SPOC Referral Statisics for July 2018
Follow up sent to Department of Veterans' Affairs by Verity Pane on .
Delayed.
To INFORMATION.LAW,
Another ridiculous and unsubstantiated set of estimates that lack any basis in reality.
The FOI Guidelines explain that the dec...
Hiding the names of APS employees terminated for gross misconduct - why the difference in standards?
Follow up sent to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by Verity Pane on .
Partially successful.
No IR requested, but just a point of housekeeping. The document schedule states each document is released in full, which is incorrect - you can’t re...
Contracted Medical Advisors
Response by Department of Veterans' Affairs to Verity Pane on .
Delayed.
OAIC reference: RQ18/03263
Department reference: 25057
Dear Ms Pane
Thank you for your email. Your clarifications have been noted, and I have added y...
aDVAnce case management system
Follow up sent to Department of Veterans' Affairs by Verity Pane on .
Partially successful.
To Leia of Information Law,
Well it wouldn’t be a DVA decision notice without some bad faith creative fiction, but as no stupid bad faith delay tact...
Current Occupants of Positions disclosed in FOI 22031 IR22524
Response by Department of Veterans' Affairs to Verity Pane on .
Delayed.
Good afternoon Verity Pane,
FOI 25415 - Internal Review acknowledgement
Please accept this email as acknowledgement of the below request for an inter...
Employees holding a current Australian legal practising certificate and their salary band
Response by Department of Veterans' Affairs to Verity Pane on .
Awaiting response.
Good afternoon Verity Pane,
FOI 25409 - FOI acknowledgement
Further to your FOI request received by the Department on 7 November 2018, please accept...
Robert Cornell advocacy study documents
Response by Department of Veterans' Affairs to Verity Pane on .
Awaiting response.
Good afternoon Verity Pane,
FOI 25408 - FOI acknowledgement
Further to your FOI request received by the Department on 6 November 2018, please accept...
Emails and other records of communications between Carl English of the OAIC and DVA
Response by Office of the Australian Information Commissioner to Verity Pane on .
Delayed.
Dear Ms Pane,
I refer to your email of 30 October 2018.
I acknowledge receipt of your application for internal review of the OAIC’s FOI decision of 2...
Updated open IC reviews longevity data, as at 1 July 2018
Response by Office of the Australian Information Commissioner to Verity Pane on .
Partially successful.
Dear Ms Pane
Please find attached the decision and documents in relation to your FOI
request, FOIREQ18/00155.
Regards
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FY17/18 Expenditure on Private Investigators
Response by Department of Veterans' Affairs to Verity Pane on .
Delayed.
Good morning Verity Pane,
FOI 25383 (Internal Review of FOI 25052)
Please accept this email as an acknowledgment that the Department has received you...
OAIC MR18/00724 & MR18/00692 & s 70 Referral - Australian Digital Health Agency
Response by Office of the Australian Information Commissioner to Verity Pane on .
Awaiting response.
Our reference: FOIREQ18/00179
Dear Ms Pane
Freedom of Information request
I refer to your request for access to documents made under the Freedom...
Documents relating or referring to DVA FOI 23544
Response by Office of the Australian Information Commissioner to Verity Pane on .
Awaiting response.
Our reference: FOIREQ18/00175
Dear Ms Pane
Freedom of Information request
I refer to your request for access to documents made under the Freedom...
Documents referring or relating to FOI 24561
Response by Office of the Australian Information Commissioner to Verity Pane on .
Awaiting response.
Our reference: FOIREQ18/00174
Dear Ms Pane
Freedom of Information request
I refer to your request for access to documents made under the Freedom...
Jan 2018 - May 2018 CLU/CCS referrals
Follow up sent to Department of Veterans' Affairs by Verity Pane on .
Delayed.
Attn INFORMATION.LAW,
The FOI Act is explicit about the requirements for addresses for notices.
If the Department would no more accept an FOI start...
External Legal Services Provider Expenditure for June 2018
Follow up sent to Department of Veterans' Affairs by Verity Pane on .
Delayed.
Attn Unanamed officer in INFORMATION.LAW,
Another day, another fraudulent and grossly exaggerated non-compliant charges decision that bears no relati...
FOI Application (s 17) for Travel, Gift and Official Entertainment Expenditure at Commonwealth Expense of ADHA Key Management Personnel
Follow up sent to Australian Digital Health Agency by Verity Pane on .
Long overdue.
***In response to a ADHA communication sent to the wrong FOI***
An advisory.
You’ve replied to the wrong FOI.
The FOI you needed to reply to...
Opt out application numbers for Monday 16 July 2018 to Friday 27 July 2018 inclusive - s 17 FOI Application
Follow up sent to Australian Digital Health Agency by Verity Pane on .
Long overdue.
An advisory.
You’ve replied to the wrong FOI.
The FOI you needed to reply to is the one made on 13 August 2018, which the ADHA ignored, and whi...
Documents that refer to the replacement of delegate names with position number reference instead
Follow up sent to Department of Veterans' Affairs by Verity Pane on .
Long overdue.
Attn INFORMATION.LAW,
Even when your own Departmental responses to Questions On Notices in Parliament directly contradict the false claims that no do...
Dear Ms Pane,
Acknowledgement of Internal Review Request – IR 25332
We refer to your request for Internal Review of FOI 24816 received on 3...
External Legal Services Expenditure
Follow up sent to Department of Veterans' Affairs by Verity Pane on .
Long overdue.
Attn INFORMATION.LAW,
It has been drawn to my attention, that due the notice to give practical refusal was made on the last day of the s 15(5)(b) dea...
Current contracts with confidentiality clauses
Follow up sent to Department of Veterans' Affairs by Verity Pane on .
Partially successful.
To Unnamed officer,
The usual opaque response I see. The purpose, aim and objects of the FOI Act is to provide access to relevant documents in a time...
Gift Register
Response by Office of the Australian Information Commissioner to Verity Pane on .
Awaiting response.
Our reference: FOIREQ18/00166
Dear Ms Pane
Freedom of Information request
I refer to your request for access to documents made under the Freedom...
This person's 121 annotations
Another blatant abuse by DVA - the audit log is prominently displayed on the ‘Manage’ tab of the record entry in Record Manager - and DVA are deliberat...
Information regarding Early Return to Australia (ERTA)
Awaiting classification.
Hi Fiona,
You are right, in that as a formal notice, the Department of Defence should not send out notices of intent to refuse (practical refusal) us...
Procedure for release of myHealthRecord data under s70(1) of myHealthRecords Act
Partially successful.
I agree; I can see the point the journalist is trying to make, but it also needs to be viewed in the context that a privacy policy is a notice to indiv...
Information regarding Early Return to Australia (ERTA)
Awaiting classification.
Hi Fiona,
It might be worth heading over to the Federal Parliament website, because if you are lucky, there might be a question on notice (or taken o...
As stated by the Information Commissioner:
...it is implicit that a charge must not be used to unnecessarily delay access or discourage an applicant f...
As stated by the Information Commissioner:
...it is implicit that a charge must not be used to unnecessarily delay access or discourage an applicant f...
As stated by the Information Commissioner:
...it is implicit that a charge must not be used to unnecessarily delay access or discourage an applicant f...
As stated by the Information Commissioner:
...it is implicit that a charge must not be used to unnecessarily delay access or discourage an applicant f...
Information on identity assessments
Long overdue.
Hi Jay,
As the agency did not issue a decision notice before the s 15(5)(b) deadline expired, and there was no activity that stopped the clock, your...
Hadgkiss and Lloyd
Awaiting classification.
A charges levy of $202.94 for 44 documents totalling 84 pages seems rather onerous and excessive (and that is the levy after the agency reduced its est...
Procedure for release of myHealthRecord data under s70(1) of myHealthRecords Act
Partially successful.
Interesting!
The only evidence of any internal ADHA policy on how to manage requests from an enforcement body for access to My Health Record data und...
A big issue with fees is where massive, spurious fees are imposed for something that shouldn’t take long. Also fees of any kind being imposed to access...
A big issue with fees is where massive, spurious fees are imposed for something that shouldn’t take long. Also fees of any kind being imposed to access...
The AFP is correct that, where it has failed to provide a decision notice before the expiry of the s 15(5)(b) deadline, and it has still not made a dec...
Yes, it is disappointing that some agencies have amended their FOI disclosure logs, so that they are now quite opaque and rather defeat the purpose of...
Refugees resettled from Indonesia
Long overdue.
Your FOI has now become a deemed refusal response, as the clock was not stopped on the s 15(5)(b) deadline before it expired.
The Department still re...
Department’s guidance material on the FOI Act
Awaiting classification.
Yes, you are correct. That’s an internal link to Home Affairs’ intranet. Quite surprising the Department employee did not immediately recognise that yo...
FOI - Veteran Mates Program - Services Agreement / Scope / Deliverables Documents
Partially successful.
Hi Julie,
You should check out my FOI https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/current_contracts_with_confident_2#followup
I was curious after readin...
Copy of the Monthly R&C metrics reports for July 2017 thru to June 2018
Awaiting classification.
Hi Julie,
You are wasting your breath talking to Carl English over at the OAIC, crooked as a dog’s leg and DVA’s go to man at the OAIC.
They have a...
As, for certain applicants, it was a heavy workload and s 15AA request last month (and the month before that...), it does raise the valid question that...
Request for Information - Requirements for exercises of delegation under FOI Act
Request to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by Kieran (Account suspended). Annotated by Verity Pane on .
Partially successful.
Not a failure in ‘explaining my reasons for my beliefs’, so much as stating something factually incorrect overconfidently, in a dismissive way.
Peopl...
Procedure for release of myHealthRecord data under s70(1) of myHealthRecords Act
Partially successful.
There seems to be a lot of improper conduct going on over at the ADHA, with respect to its FOI management, which the OAIC appears content to let contin...
External Legal Services Expenditure
Long overdue.
If a delegate, who failed to, in her/his statement of reasons, to explicitly refer to the evidence or other material upon which their findings of fact...
APSC Commissioner attended meetings
Refused.
*pedantic *unhelpful
Changes to calculating critical error rates
Partially successful.
Dear Alan,
DVA take the position that once they have issued a decision, it is functus officio, which means that as a consequence of the decision bein...
