Verity Pane
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This person's 38 Freedom of Information requests
Composition of FOI area
Response by Department of Veterans' Affairs to Verity Pane on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Verity Pane
I refer to your request for access to documents set out in your email below.
We received your request on 18 April 2018 and the 30 da...
Search and Retrieval Charges Estimated for FY2017/2018 YTD
Response by Department of Veterans' Affairs to Verity Pane on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Verity Pane,
Freedom of Information request – Search and Retrieval Charges Estimated
for FY2017/2018 YTD
I refer to the abovementione...
FOI delegate statistical information
Follow up sent to Department of Defence by Verity Pane on .
Awaiting response.
Just an addendum, if a FOI delegate spends less than 10% of their duties on FOI, please exclude them from scope (looking only for those who make FOI...
Number of clients referred to, and managed by, the Client Liaison Unit
Follow up sent to Department of Veterans' Affairs by Verity Pane on .
Delayed.
More than a fortnight has passed without acknowledgement or response, nor has any reason been given for this high handed conduct, which is contrary...
Documents relating to processing of FOI 244/17/18
Follow up sent to Department of Defence by Verity Pane on .
Delayed.
I request an internal review of this decision, to have the multiple redacted pages, which clearly are not ‘irrelevant’ material, properly dealt with...
Code of Conduct Complaint Statistics
Follow up sent to Department of Defence by Verity Pane on .
Awaiting response.
Defence is clearly abusing the charges provision here, as Defence already collects statistics for internal reporting purposes in line with that requ...
Abandonment Rate of Compensation Claims
Response by Department of Veterans' Affairs to Verity Pane on .
Awaiting response.
Dear Verity Pane
I refer to your request for access to documents under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (the FOI Act). Your request is set out in y...
FOI Processing/Management Policy & Procedural Documents
Response by Department of Defence to Verity Pane on .
Long overdue.
UNCLASSIFIED
Dear Ms Pane
1. Thank you for your email dated 8 March 2018, asking for an internal review of charges under section 53A(e) of the FOI Ac...
Joint Inquiry into the facts surrounding the management of Mr Jesse Bird’s case
Follow up sent to Department of Defence by Verity Pane on .
Refused.
Defence continues to show it is a bad faith actor that systemically abuses the aims and objectives of the Freedom of Information Act, and the irony...
Jesse Bird Inquiry Report
Follow up sent to Department of Veterans' Affairs by Verity Pane on .
Long overdue.
It beggars belief that of the only 3 full or mostly full pages released (all of which are already in the public domain), against 95 pages either rem...
APP 12 Privacy Act Applications
Follow up sent to Department of Veterans' Affairs by Verity Pane on .
Successful.
Thank you - the information provided helps give context to the time taken by the Department (it may have been unfair otherwise to assess impact/resp...
FOI Agency Reference Numbers for Documents in REQFOI17/00064
Request to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by Verity Pane. Annotated by Verity Pane on .
Partially successful.
I’ve marked this partial for two reasons:
1) Firstly, this information should have been provided a month ago with the original FOI decision, but was u...
Extension of Time Applications - s 15AB - Complex or Voluminous
Request to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by Verity Pane. Annotated by Verity Pane on .
Long overdue.
The subsequent FOI the OAIC forced me to put in, after unethically and unlawfully redacting relevant information for which no consent was given to reda...
Supporting Documentation for Selected CMS (DTC/DPC) transactions
Follow up sent to Department of Defence by Verity Pane on .
Partially successful.
Thank you for this overdue response. It is interesting to note that the claim of national security exemptions in the decision letter (although I hav...
APP 12 Access Processing Statistics
Partially successful.
I’ve marked this FOI partially successful given it would seem an abuse to infer this FOI was handled correctly, given the appalling behaviour of Jo Gra...
Administration of requests for information (policy documents)
Follow up sent to Department of Veterans' Affairs by Verity Pane on .
Refused.
First your department claims it’s own DVA UCC manual couldn’t be released because it was “under review” (and there was no claim made you were review...
Accounting Financial Information Management System
Response by Department of Defence to Verity Pane on .
Partially successful.
UNCLASSIFIED
Thank you Verity.
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 .
Partially successful.
Thank you for your decision, and your decision to waive the charges initially sought, which is consistent with the s 93A Guidelines issued by the Au...
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 .
Partially successful.
Thank you for your decision today, and all your documents did come through the first time (including the SOR). No further action required, you may n...
Follow up - Use of s 44 powers - Agencies
Response by Office of the Australian Information Commissioner to Verity Pane on .
Successful.
Dear Ms Pane
A decision on your FOI request is attached, as are the documents you
requested.
Regards
Raewyn Harlock | Assistant...
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...
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FOI Agency Reference Numbers for Documents in REQFOI17/00064
Request to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by Verity Pane. Annotated by Verity Pane on .
Partially successful.
I’ve marked this partial for two reasons:
1) Firstly, this information should have been provided a month ago with the original FOI decision, but was u...
Extension of Time Applications - s 15AB - Complex or Voluminous
Request to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by Verity Pane. Annotated by Verity Pane on .
Long overdue.
The subsequent FOI the OAIC forced me to put in, after unethically and unlawfully redacting relevant information for which no consent was given to reda...
APP 12 Access Processing Statistics
Partially successful.
I’ve marked this FOI partially successful given it would seem an abuse to infer this FOI was handled correctly, given the appalling behaviour of Jo Gra...
APP 12 Access Processing Statistics
Partially successful.
The behaviour of Jo Graves here is, in short, disgusting and a gross breach of ethics, and demonstrates that Defence’s FOI area is a repeat offender an...
Extension of Time Applications - s 15AB - Complex or Voluminous
Request to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by Verity Pane. Annotated by Verity Pane on .
Long overdue.
On 5 October 2017, I made an FOI application to the OAIC for a small number of documents, which should have been acknowledged within 14 days (s 15(5)(a...
AFP donations to Indonesia
Refused.
Agencies continue to use practical refusal notifications poorly.
When correctly done, a practical refusal consultation will seek to assist the applic...
800,000+ jobs created since July 2016......Really ?
Information not held.
The claim by this agency that “and that the FOI Act does not require an agency to create new documents containing the information that is sought” is mi...
Official functions
Successful.
These considerable delays suffered by the applicant, due to PM&C claiming (and laying blame for delays on) consultations with foreign attendees shows P...
Supporting Documentation for Selected CMS (DTC/DPC) transactions
Partially successful.
Also worth noting that the previous FOI that these documents were within scope of, before I split the FOI to get around the onerous charges Defence tri...
Yet again DVA continues with this fiction that the manual they originally claimed couldn’t be released because it was under “review”, then later claime...
Given the recent previous Public Service Commissioner’s hostility to FOI laws, this ridiculous charges assessment by the APSC is no surprise http://www...
Supporting Documentation for Selected CMS (DTC/DPC) transactions
Partially successful.
This claim that information provided in receipts and invoices sought would satisfy s 27A, which generally only applies to sensitive commercial informat...
Extension of Time Applications - s 15AB - Complex or Voluminous
Request to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by Verity Pane. Annotated by Verity Pane on .
Long overdue.
As the OAIC has not provided the documents requested by the statutory deadline (s 15(5)(b)) and when it did provide them exceeded the scope of consent...
I note that Melissa Davidson from Defence has tempered her original response, following your raising of the access the Defence FOI area has to all of O...
Public Interest Disclosure investigations into alleged fraud and other criminal offences
Awaiting classification.
I note that Melissa Davidson from Defence has tempered her original response, following your raising of the access the Defence FOI area has to all of O...
This agency’s conduct here is best described as high farce - first the document exists, then it doesn’t, then when part of it is found on a public webs...
Public Interest Disclosure investigations into alleged fraud and other criminal offences
Awaiting classification.
Hi Adam,
A recent decision of the Information Commissioner ('MK' and Department of Defence (Freedom of information) [2017] AICmr 89 (15 September 20...
Hi Adam,
A recent decision of the Information Commissioner might assist here.
Defence’s FOI area confirmed that they can search the entire store, o...
APSC Commissioner attended meetings
Refused.
A ridiculous charges assessment, of an excessive decision making time calculation, that deserves upmost criticism.
Unfortunately it’s also a stunt pu...
2016-17 Most Expensive Event
Request to Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development by Jackson Gothe-Snape. Annotated by Verity Pane on .
Refused.
This application has been treated as withdrawn by the agency following non-response in the practical refusal consultation period
Private use of social media advice provided to employees
Request to Department of Agriculture and Water Resources by James Smith. Annotated by Verity Pane on .
Refused.
Due to non-response on the charges decision, this FOI was treated as withdrawn by the agency
Private use of social media advice provided to employees
Long overdue.
This FOI application does not appear to have received a response from the agency within the statutory response period, and therefore is now a deemed re...
Group Certificates/PAYG payment summaries of the ABS’ SES staff - FY2013/14, FY2014/15 and FY2015/16
Refused.
Seems to be a creeping use of s 15AB “complex and voluminous” extensions granted by the OAIC (who hand them out like confetti at a wedding), a section...
Where access is requested in a particular form, the agency is generally obliged to do so, expect in limited circumstances.
You may find the below ext...
ABS view on including 16 and 17 year olds in the Marriage Law Postal Survey
Awaiting classification.
Just an addendum to remind that putting in for an IC Review on a deemed refusal doesn’t relieve the agency from its obligations in respect to the FOI,...
