Verity Pane
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This person's 55 Freedom of Information requests
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 .
Delayed.
Dear Australian Digital Health Agency [cc OAIC]
Be advised of the following communication received from the OAIC and my response.
The outrageous an...
Current contracts with confidentiality clauses
Response by Department of Veterans' Affairs to Verity Pane on .
Awaiting classification.
Good afternoon Verity Pane,
FOI 24588 - Acknowledgement of FOI request
We acknowledge receipt of your FOI request received by the Department on 18 Se...
TRIM audit log for FOI 23863 Decision and Statement of Reasons Word Document and for FOI 23863 section 17 document (Word Document)
Response by Department of Veterans' Affairs to Verity Pane on .
Awaiting classification.
Good afternoon Verity Pane,
FOI 24570 - Acknowledgement of FOI request
We acknowledge receipt of your FOI request received by the Department on 18 Se...
Jan 2018 - May 2018 CLU/CCS referrals
Response by Department of Veterans' Affairs to Verity Pane on .
Awaiting classification.
Good afternoon Verity Pane,
FOI 24561 - Acknowledgement of FOI request
We acknowledge receipt of your FOI request received by the Department on 18 Se...
Referrals to Coordinated Care and Client Liaison Units for FY15/16-FY17/18 by age group
Response by Department of Veterans' Affairs to Verity Pane on .
Partially successful.
Dear Verity Pane,
You are welcome.
Kind Regards,
Information Law Team
Department of Veterans’ Affairs
E: [email address] | W: www.dva.gov.au
Current contracts with confidentiality clauses
Request sent to Specialist Medical Review Council by Verity Pane on .
Awaiting response.
Under FOI, I seek copy of the the first page only (cover page is fine), of all current, contracts the SMRC has, that contain a confidentiality claus...
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...
Cost of External Legal Services Expenditure on Work, Health and Safety Act 2012 implications
Follow up sent to Department of Veterans' Affairs by Verity Pane on .
Long overdue.
As you would be aware, DVA is required to comply with the Information Commissioner’s Direction as to certain procedures to be followed in IC reviews...
Client Satisfaction Survey Sampling Methodology
Response by Department of Veterans' Affairs to Verity Pane on .
Long overdue.
Good morning Verity Pane,
FOI 24470 (Internal Review of FOI 23543)
The Department acknowledges receipt of your three emails, in which you seek an int...
RESOLVE Case Reports for CP18/02632 & MR18/00607
Response by Office of the Australian Information Commissioner to Verity Pane on .
Awaiting response.
Our reference: FOIREQ18/00124
Dear Ms Pane
I refer to your application made under the Freedom of Information Act 1982
(Cth) (the FOI Act)...
Documents that relate to scoping study calculations for DVA FOI 23544 & DVA FOI 23863 & DVA FOI 21147
Response by Department of Veterans' Affairs to Verity Pane on .
Awaiting response.
Dear Verity,
Acknowledgement of FOI Request – FOI 24429
I refer to your request to access information held by our Department under
the Fre...
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 .
Delayed.
As your agency failed to identity a valid third party consultation ground, despite repeated follow up, where documents subject to the FOI applicatio...
Documents that refer to the replacement of delegate names with position number reference instead
Response by Department of Veterans' Affairs to Verity Pane on .
Awaiting response.
Dear Verity,
Acknowledgement of FOI Request – FOI 24298
I refer to your request to access information held by our Department under
the Fre...
Documents relating to notification of privacy breach by Commonwealth Bank (CBA) to OAIC and OAIC’s advice to CBA that it did not intend to inquire further about breach
Follow up sent to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by Verity Pane on .
Partially successful.
I acknowledge your decision of today, which made slight reduction of the a few of the previous many redactions.
As stated in the scope of this FOI...
Number of clients referred to, and managed by, the Client Liaison Unit
Response by Department of Veterans' Affairs to Verity Pane on .
Awaiting internal review.
Dear Verity Pane,
Acknowledgement of FOI Internal Review Request – IR 23919
I refer to your request for internal review by our Department u...
FOI Training Costs in FY16/17
Partially successful.
Despite this FOI having been made at the start of May, it took over two months to get some very basic expenditure information out of Defence, who made...
Composition of FOI area
Follow up sent to Department of Veterans' Affairs by Verity Pane on .
Successful.
This completes this FOI. No further action required.
Code of Conduct Complaint Statistics
Response by Department of Defence to Verity Pane on .
Long overdue.
Link: [1]File-List
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Dear Verity Pane,
I have just realised that your name was misspelt in my decision on the
release of document...
Summary of Charges for Access under FOI
Follow up sent to Department of Defence by Verity Pane on .
Partially successful.
Thank you. I have no further questions.
Yours sincerely,
Verity Pane
FOI delegate statistical information
Follow up sent to Department of Defence by Verity Pane on .
Partially successful.
Thank you for your decision, which really what Defence should have some in the first place, instead of fraudulently pretending it was not a valid FO...
Abandonment Rate of Compensation Claims
Follow up sent to Department of Veterans' Affairs by Verity Pane on .
Long overdue.
Still awaiting a response.
Yours sincerely,
Verity Pane
Documents relating to processing of FOI 244/17/18
Response by Department of Defence to Verity Pane on .
Refused.
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UNCLASSIFIED
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Dear Ms Pane
1. Thank you for your email dated 15 April 2018, asking for an internal review o...
Search and Retrieval Charges Estimated for FY2017/2018 YTD
Follow up sent to Department of Veterans' Affairs by Verity Pane on .
Successful.
Thank you. You can close this FOI now.
Yours sincerely,
Verity Pane
Charges Estimates Issued in FY17/18 YTD and whether that caused the FOI to be abandoned
Follow up sent to Department of Defence by Verity Pane on .
Withdrawn by the requester.
Whoops, restated this application that you are already fraudulently stalling.
Yours faithfully,
Verity Pane
FOI Processing/Management Policy & Procedural Documents
Follow up sent to Department of Defence by Verity Pane on .
Long overdue.
I can’t say thank for your decision, the reasons for which given were ridiculously opaque.
“Upon internal review, I sought a sample of the documen...
This person's 99 annotations
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
Awaiting internal review.
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...
Cost of External Legal Services Expenditure on Work, Health and Safety Act 2012 implications
Long overdue.
Unfortunately the arrogance of this agency towards FOI is on show here, which won’t help them going forward.
External Legal Services Expenditure
Long overdue.
I predict that not only will this agency reject the offer of extension but will apply to the OAIC under s 15AB to extend this statutory deadline furthe...
External Legal Services Expenditure
Long overdue.
It is a mark of an agency using abuse of process to make a practical refusal notice right at the end of the normal statutory processing period, in an u...
The agency is committing a breach of FOI legislation by resetting the FOI statutory processing period clock from 26 July 2018, which was the day follow...
Dear Trent,
Just an FYI - note that annotations made to a Right to Know request are *not* sent to the agency, so they wouldn’t have necessarily seen...
Rather disappointing that the Digital Health Authority wanted to take its communications offline from Right to Know when clearly there was no personal...
FOI Training Costs in FY16/17
Partially successful.
Despite this FOI having been made at the start of May, it took over two months to get some very basic expenditure information out of Defence, who made...
Public Interest Disclosure investigations into alleged fraud and other criminal offences
Awaiting classification.
The result of this requester’s internal review is that the Department have released one further document, being essentially a Ministerial Advice templa...
Case notes
Refused.
As stated in the agency’s response “I will have to refuse your FOI request as 'practical refusal reasons' exist in relation to it.”
The requester did...
Dear Mr Hirsch,
I am sorry RtK account Stephanie Johnson left a sarcastic comment about your personal decision, which is quite valid, not to give con...
Documents relating to notification of privacy breach by Commonwealth Bank (CBA) to OAIC and OAIC’s advice to CBA that it did not intend to inquire further about breach
Request to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by Verity Pane. Annotated by Verity Pane on .
Partially successful.
It’s taken over two months to effectively get nothing - and even that which has been partially marked for release is so censored that it may as well be...
With the charges being reduced to $60 and therefore even further below the threshold the Information Commissioner has generally regarded as not suffici...
Hi Adam, an estimated charge of $90 is generally considered by the Information Commissioner in the range of charges where the costs of calculation and...
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...
