Verity Pane
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This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 109) (page 5)
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...
Conc
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 163 annotations (page 5)
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...
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,...
Under s 16 of the Freedom of Information Act 1982, agencies can transfer all or part of an FOI application to another agency, which is what occurred wi...
Programming languages and publicly available source code at BOM
Partially successful.
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...
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...
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
Partially successful.
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...
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
Partially successful.
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 .
Partially successful.
“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
Refused.
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
Refused.
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
Refused.
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
Refused.
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
Refused.
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
Refused.
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
Partially successful.
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...