Verity Pane
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This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 109) (page 3)
Documents that relate to scoping study calculations for DVA FOI 23544 & DVA FOI 23863 & DVA FOI 21147
Long overdue.
IC Review applied for 21 November 2018
IC Review applied for 14 November 2018
Staff Survey
Long overdue.
IC Review applied for 19 November 2018
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 .
Refused.
Dear Ms Pane,
Please see attached correspondence in relation to your FOI request.
Regards,
Amanda
[1]O A I C logo Amanda Nowland...
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 .
Long overdue.
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...
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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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...
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...
Summary of all current contracts that *do not* contain a confidentiality clause/s
Response by Department of Veterans' Affairs to Verity Pane on .
Successful.
Good afternoon Verity Pane,
Thank you for your email. Based on the below, we acknowledge your advice for our previous email to be taken as information...
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.
Attn DVA,
Timeline:
18 July 2018 - FOI made
1 August 2018 - s 15(5)(a) acknowledgment deadline expired with DVA in breach
17 August 2018 - s 15(5)...
Current contracts with confidentiality clauses
Response by Specialist Medical Review Council to Verity Pane on .
Successful.
Thank you for your email.
I am out of the office today, 19 Oct. I will respond to your email on my
return.
SMRC Registrar
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RESOLVE Case Reports for CP18/02632 & MR18/00607
Follow up sent to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by Verity Pane on .
Long overdue.
I am not aware I gave consent for a change of address for notices, and given Right to Know is where the request was made, the address for notices wo...
Number of clients referred to, and managed by, the Client Liaison Unit
Follow up sent to Department of Veterans' Affairs by Verity Pane on .
Awaiting internal review.
On 20th August you wrote:
I refer to your request for internal review by our Department under the
Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act). Th...
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.
Good afternoon Verity Pane,
FOI 24561 Charges notice
We refer to your FOI request received by the Department on 18 September
2018. Please...
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...
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
UNCLASSIFIED
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
This person's 163 annotations (page 3)
SPOC Referral Statisics for July 2018
Long overdue.
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
Successful.
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...
Current Occupants of Positions disclosed in FOI 22031 IR22524
Partially successful.
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
Successful.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Procedure for release of myHealthRecord data under s70(1) of myHealthRecords Act
Partially successful.
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...
Procedure for release of myHealthRecord data under s70(1) of myHealthRecords Act
Partially successful.
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...
Procedure for release of myHealthRecord data under s70(1) of myHealthRecords Act
Partially successful.
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
Partially successful.
The result of this requester’s internal review is that the Department have released one further document, being essentially a Ministerial Advice templa...