Verity Pane
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This person's 22 Freedom of Information requests
Top 10 Highest Transactional Value Expenditures in CMS for SES(E) level card holders, for FY 2016/2017
Follow up sent to Department of Defence by Verity Pane on .
Awaiting response.
Thank you for providing the additional information requested about your calculation.
Section 29(4) of the Freedom of Information Ac provides agenc...
Record of Consultations Undertaken with CFO Group for assessing production of requested financial transactional information
Follow up sent to Department of Defence by Verity Pane on .
Awaiting response.
I acknowledge your request for payment of $45 in your Section 29(1) notice. I would like to remind Defence of the Australian Information Commissione...
Administration of requests for information (policy documents)
Follow up sent to Department of Veterans' Affairs by Verity Pane on .
Awaiting response.
This is a disappointing and substandard response to my FOI application.
Firstly, agencies, when identifying whether access may be given via admini...
Accounting Financial Information Management System
Follow up sent to Department of Defence by Verity Pane on .
Awaiting response.
Please note that while I have given Defence the opportunity to provide access to copies of the requested extracts of the internally published manual...
Documents Where s 44 Privacy Act Powers Exercised
Follow up sent to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by Verity Pane on .
Successful.
On 1 June 2017, under FOIREQ17/00036, I made a valid FOI Request (administrative access sought in the first instance, but to be treated as an FOI Ap...
KPMG Audit Report in FOI
Response by Department of Veterans' Affairs to Verity Pane on .
Successful.
Dear Ms Pane,
Please find attached the document in question.
Kind regards,
Alexander Gent
Legal Officer
Information Law
Legal Services & Assurance B...
Use of Privacy Act s44 and s45 powers
Response by Office of the Australian Information Commissioner to Verity Pane on .
Refused.
Dear Ms Pane,
I am writing to provide you with my decision on your Internal Review application for your FOI request relating to the Information Commis...
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...
Documents relating to any satisfaction surveys
Follow up sent to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by Verity Pane on .
Refused.
Thank you for the background information. I am satisfied with the response here that no documents exist as the OAIC (in its current form) has never...
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...
Privacy Complaint Statistics
Follow up sent to Department of Defence by Verity Pane on .
Partially successful.
Thank you for your response (although I am unsure why a copy of the Unacceptable Behaviour Defence Instruction was included, given it has no relevan...
Request for summary FOI information
Follow up sent to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by Verity Pane on .
Successful.
Thank you for your decision, the information provided is quite useful, and will be a beneficial aid to interpretation when the Australian National A...
Consultations relating to Waiver of Privacy Act Personal Information Disclosure Certificate - Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Digital Readiness and Other Measures) Bill 2016
Partially successful.
For the interest of others, who may be refused access to information, on claims of unreasonable disclosure of the personal information of others, it ma...
Code of Conduct investigations
Follow up sent to Department of Veterans' Affairs by Verity Pane on .
Successful.
Thank you for the information released, it will contribute in a positive way to my project. I would also like to thank you for provided it earlier t...
Waiver of Privacy Act Personal Information Disclosure Certificate - Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Digital Readiness and Other Measures) Bill 2016 -
Response by Office of the Australian Information Commissioner to Verity Pane on .
Refused.
Our reference: MR17/00242
Dear Ms Pane
MR17/00242 – Finalisation of your application for IC review
I refer to your application for IC...
Information on considerably delayed Privacy Complaints & IC Reviews
Follow up sent to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by Verity Pane on .
Refused.
You claim the reporting system cannot generate the information requested for those privacy complaints exceeding 360 days, yet this is contradicted b...
Information on all Privacy and IC review complaints currently open for 360 days or older
Response by Office of the Australian Information Commissioner to Verity Pane on .
Successful.
Thank you for your email.
I am out of the office on Friday 19 May 2017 and will return on Monday 22
May 2017. I will respond to you then.
...
Complaint Statistical Reports Produced in 2016
Response by Office of the Australian Information Commissioner to Verity Pane on .
Successful.
Dear Ms Pane
A decision and the documents you requested on 22 April 2017 are attached
to this email.
Regards
Raewyn Harlock | Assist...
Consultations relating to Waiver of Privacy Act Personal Information Disclosure Certificate - Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Digital Readiness and Other Measures) Bill 2016
Internal review request sent to Minister for Veterans’ Affairs by Verity Pane on .
Awaiting internal review.
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Minister for Veterans...
Consultations regarding Waiver of Privacy Act Personal Information Disclosure Certificate - Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Digital Readiness and Other Measures) Bill 2016
Follow up sent to Commonwealth Ombudsman by Verity Pane on .
Partially successful.
Thank you for the additional clarification Jim, and your further explanatory comments. They were much appreciated.
While I consider there are some...
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Follow up sent to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by Verity Pane on .
Partially successful.
Thank you for providing your response and some of the information sought.
As case numbers are irrelevant, I have no objection to their exclusion,...
Records relating to consultations ABS had with OAIC regarding Census 2016
Response by Office of the Australian Information Commissioner to Verity Pane on .
Partially successful.
Our Ref: FOIREQ16/00046
Dear Ms Pane,
Please find attached the documents relevant to the FOI decision issued by
the OAIC on 24 Nov...
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Programming languages and publicly available source code at BOM
Awaiting classification.
This is one of the few practical refusal consultations that I have seen, that was actually handled in reasonable accordance with the spirit and letter...
ABS view on including 16 and 17 year olds in the Marriage Law Postal Survey
Awaiting internal review.
Where an agency fails to make a decision before an FOI statutory deadline expires, the FOI decision is classified as a “deemed refusal”. For benefit, I...
Copy of Multical Entitlement and Debt Calculator
Awaiting classification.
This series of decisions by DHS deserves absolute criticism -
Section 29(4) of the Freedom of Information Act provides agencies a discretion to redu...
Documents relating to legal advice and court attendance for the Commonwealth Ministers of Health, Human Services and Assistant to the Treasurer summoned before the Victorian Supreme Court
Awaiting classification.
Where an agency fails to make a decision before an FOI statutory deadline expires, the FOI decision is classified as a “deemed refusal”. For benefit, I...
Allegation of APRA Compliance with Section 29M of the SIS Act
Awaiting classification.
Where an agency fails to make a decision before an FOI statutory deadline expires, the FOI decision is classified as a “deemed refusal”. For benefit, I...
Documents relating to legal advice and court attendance for the Commonwealth Ministers of Health, Human Services and Assistant to the Treasurer summoned before the Victorian Supreme Court
Awaiting classification.
It’s poor form indeed to seek consent to an extension, after an agency has already helped itself to extensions without consent, AFTER the expiry of pr...
Precise salaries paid to the OAIC’s SES officers for FY14/15, FY15/16 and FY16/17
Request to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by Name withheld. Annotated by Verity Pane on .
Awaiting classification.
“The consultation provision in s 27A applies when we believe a person may
wish to contend that the requested documents are exempt for reasons of
pe...
Schedule of Special Purpose Flights
Refused.
From no documents identified in the original decision of Nicola Viney to 37 documents identified in the Internal Review highlights the common abuse by...
2016-17 Most Expensive Trip
Awaiting classification.
Dear Mr Gothe-Snape,
As it appears you and your request were treated in a manner well below that required by the FOI Act, I thought I'd offer some as...
2016-17 Most Expensive Trip
Awaiting classification.
Also, Dr Beacroft should have been well aware that it is a legal obligation of agency FOI staff to, when making practical refusal decisions, to advise...
2016-17 Most Expensive Trip
Awaiting classification.
This is another woeful response from Defence:
* The ADM has withdrawn and closed the FOI, without the consent of FOI originator; and
* Has made a pra...
Squat toilets at the ATO
Partially successful.
For the benefit of those who don't wish to click through to the ATO's ridiculous and clunky FOI responses site, when such information could just as ea...
2016-17 Most Expensive Trip
Awaiting classification.
Consider limiting to overseas travel by Departmental staff only, which is a much smaller subset of the Department's travel transactions, which will mak...
2016-17 Most Expensive Trip
Awaiting classification.
Can I suggest, to avoid getting mucked around further, that you put the following revised scope (or similar) to Defence:
I seek a summary report of a...
2016-17 Most Expensive Trip
Awaiting classification.
It would appear Dr Beacroft has not understood the Applicant's FOI Request as made, regarding it as one seeking travel expenses to be reported by indiv...
Schedule of Special Purpose Flights
Refused.
Where an agency has not handled an FOI in accordance with the good faith obligations and procedural requirements under the FOI Act, a s 70 complaint ma...
Schedule of Special Purpose Flights
Refused.
The FOI decision of the delegate Nicola Viney (who has a bit of a history unfortunately for such things) is nonsensical.
While it is reasonably justi...
Military gifts to Indonesia
Delayed.
The words "make a list" may be read by the agency as a request for information, rather than a request for documents. Under the FOI Act, requests are fr...
Ridiculous calculation of charges that have no legitimate basis in fact, but are a thinly guised attempt to unlawfully frustrate access, are unfortunat...
Letter in relation to the Consumer Protection Inquiry
Request to Australian Securities and Investments Commission by Phillip Sweeney. Annotated by Verity Pane on .
Successful.
Even though released administratively so as not to use FOI as a barrier, worth noting they still took a month to do so (so no difference really in how...
IPA and HR Hicholls Society documents
Partially successful.
Agencies should not white out redactions, on white backgrounds, as it makes it very difficult to confirm the extent of a redaction. Agencies should use...
Group Certificates/PAYG payment summaries of the ABS’ SES staff - FY2013/14, FY2014/15 and FY2015/16
Awaiting classification.
The OAIC will rubber stamp just about any s 15AB application by an agency, whether or not justified grounds exist, unfortunately. See http://foi-privac...
For the benefit of those who don't want to wade through three screens to see the decision (shame on ATO for being deliberately obstructive to RtK), hav...
Schedule of Special Purpose Flights
Refused.
Not quite correct that Defence "cannot" action Part 1 (more a case of choosing not to here). Part 1 request could be treated administratively or taken...
Schedule of Special Purpose Flights
Refused.
Hi Alan,
Regarding your request for reasons as to why there has been no publication of special purpose flight information lately, it's worth remember...
