Verity Pane
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This person's 16 Freedom of Information requests
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...
Use of Privacy Act s44 and s45 powers
Request to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by Verity Pane. Annotated by Verity Pane on .
Awaiting internal review.
It's worth pointing out that any use of s 44 Privacy Act coercive powers (which given the lack of any publicly available evidence to that effect, is ve...
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...
This person's 34 annotations
Schedule of Special Purpose Flights
Awaiting classification.
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
Awaiting classification.
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...
Use of Privacy Act s44 and s45 powers
Request to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by Verity Pane. Annotated by Verity Pane on .
Awaiting internal review.
It's worth pointing out that any use of s 44 Privacy Act coercive powers (which given the lack of any publicly available evidence to that effect, is ve...
Use of Privacy Act s44 and s45 powers
Request to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by Verity Pane. Annotated by Verity Pane on .
Awaiting internal review.
Under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cth) the agency bears the onus of proof in establishing that processing the applicant’s request would substa...
Privacy Act s 98 Information Commissioner Initiated Applications
Request to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by Verity Pane. Annotated by Verity Pane on .
Partially successful.
While technically a refusal, have decided to mark this response as partial successful, given this is an FOI response that went a little above and beyon...
Email correspondence on school funding changes
Waiting clarification.
Now this is a much better notification of practical refusal intention than you usually see. The agency's intention response, while very summary, at lea...
Information regarding granting of 457 visas
Request to Department of Immigration and Border Protection by Robert Hudson. Annotated by Verity Pane on .
Partially successful.
The agency's decision here raises some issues worth commenting on.
Parts 1 and 3 of the Applicant's FOI request were given a practical refusal reason...
Documents Relating to U.S. Department of Defense Research into Neurotoxicity and/or Adverse Neuropsychiatric Effects of the Anti-malarial Drug Mefloquine
Waiting clarification.
It would be worth reminding this agency that where charges sought are typically less $100, the Information Commissioner has generally been of the view...
When making an FOI application, just note that, with the exception of s 17, you really need to request records/documents rather than information (which...
Refusal to Provide a Statement of Reasons
Request to Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority by Adam Presnell. Annotated by Verity Pane on .
Refused.
Now that the APVMA have reduced their charges estimate to $50 I definitely think Rita Lahoud and Department of Education and Training [2016] AICmr 5 ap...
Refusal to Provide a Statement of Reasons
Request to Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority by Adam Presnell. Annotated by Verity Pane on .
Refused.
Can I suggest, if you seek review, that you may wish to focus on the time the APVMA have allocated for assessing any documents discovered.
The APVMA...
Refusal to Provide a Statement of Reasons
Request to Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority by Adam Presnell. Annotated by Verity Pane on .
Refused.
You may find this useful - it outlines the process on Charges Decisions for agency staff. It can help you identify a ground of review https://www.oaic....
Refusal to Provide a Statement of Reasons
Request to Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority by Adam Presnell. Annotated by Verity Pane on .
Refused.
Hi Adam,
I read your annotation, and while it is true that some public servants view FOI as a pain in their backside, and don't administer FOI reques...
Refusal to Provide a Statement of Reasons
Request to Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority by Adam Presnell. Annotated by Verity Pane on .
Refused.
You left an annotation (June 15, 2017)
While obviously everyone may hold their own opinions, in communicating them, due regard must be given to wheth...
Documents Relating to U.S. Department of Defense Research into Neurotoxicity and/or Adverse Neuropsychiatric Effects of the Anti-malarial Drug Mefloquine
Waiting clarification.
While it is positive that this agency has reduced its the charges estimate by 50% to $83.50, it is worth saying that the agency really wasn't intereste...
Airsoft in the defence force
Waiting clarification.
This appears to be notification of intention to make a practical refusal decision, on the grounds the work involved in processing the request would sub...
Airsoft in the defence force
Waiting clarification.
Given the vast bulk of the preliminary estimate of charges is for "assessing" the documents sought (the agency only estimates 2 hours to conduct the se...
Airsoft in the defence force
Waiting clarification.
The agency's statement "Under the provisions of the FOI Act, we are required to provide documents not information" is somewhat misleading given s 17 do...
The agency's claim "Your request is not considered to be a valid request under the FOI Act as you have sought access to publicly available information"...
Statistics on the whole of ADF IR status and medical restrictions
Waiting clarification.
There may be some merit to a claim of "security risk" in providing 10 years of historical Individual Readiness statistics, but it does seem a bit of a...
Nepotism and patronage in Defence
Long overdue.
Defence's response here has initiated what is know as a request consultation process. Under s 24 an agency may require an applicant to engage in a requ...
Applying a full s 47C - Deliberative Matter exemption on a document relating to a policy on administrative access to AFP documents only makes sense if...
Agencies should be careful when using cut and paste templates to respond to FOI requests to avoid inadvertently disclosing unrelated information, and t...
Enterprise bargaining - what information is provided to department about employees' votes?
Partially successful.
On 26 Feb 2017 Applicant made a FOI request to AGD (FOI 17/042), of which decision was issued 30 March 2017. The Applicant sought internal review on 31...
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...
