We recently discovered that the eSafety Commissioner has been misusing her capabilities to monitor critics of her on X. This quick form lets you find out whether she is monitoring you. You can also require her to answer your request via a public tweet! Just fill out the form below.
Make your Freedom of Information Request to the eSafety Commissioner's office and ACMA below.
FOI requests are commonly made over Twitter in other jurisdictions (see e.g. this discussion of the UK Supreme Court accepting them.).
For Commonwealth public authorities, the law allows you specify the 'electronic means' by which you receive a response. Whilst agencies can insist on receiving requests via email (although they still have a duty to assist those who file by X), you can insist on responses via X.
There is no requirement to live in Australia, or to be an Australian citizen. You can even make a request if you have never been to Australia. The Australian Information Commmissioner has been clear on this.
Actually you can. The Australian Information Commissioner's guidance makes it clear that Freedom of Information requests to Commonwealth Bodies can be made anonymously.
The only time it is an issue is where they need to know your identity in order to release personal information about you. If you are an anonymous person asking about an anonymous account, it is not personal information.
The Free Speech Union of Australia. We exist to protect and promote Freedom of Expression for all Australians. To find out more, follow our Twitter feed, or visit our website, where you can join us.
Unless you ask the Commissioner (and ACMA) to correspond via email, your email address information will only be known to the Free Speech Union of Australia. We will use it to keep you updated.