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Daily Discussion Thread:🌷Mon 15 Apr 2024 (aussie.zone)

submitted 7 months ago by CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone to c/melbourne@aussie.zone

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[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

TV review

Griselda, from the people who brought you Narcos and Narcos Mexico.

The first series, Narcos, was from the viewpoint of the two DEA officers who hunted down Escobar. ( I read the book, these true life guys are national heroes in Colombia ) Narcos Mexico was from the point of view of the guy who created the Mexican cartel system, third series view point of local police trying to save forgotten victims and Griselda is the view point of a drug lord.

I really recommend these stories, they are violent tho. 4.5 hobbits

The Vault. It was boring. Made me really appreciate the story telling of Uncharted, which this movie unashamedly stole from. 1 hobbit

Nobody Knows I'm Here. The lead character, I just didn't care. 1 hobbit

[–] Catfish@aussie.zone 2 points 7 months ago

No, Sheep Dip is not a new culinary marvel of meat 😹

[–] Baku@aussie.zone 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So random question time

When it comes to freedom of information requests, can I still lodge one if I only know what information I want, without knowing if a document containing that specific information exists?

For reasons, I'd like to get a list of the current Ambulance Victoria branches. I'm not entirely sure they'd have one document that neatly outlines each branch they have, so I don't really know if I can go to the ombudsman to request that, if it would involve them digging through other files and collating my requested information into one single file

Ordinarily I'd just ask their FOI office, but unfortunately their FOI office isn't very nice. They've been asked publicly at least twice, and completely ignored both FOIs, and when I emailed to ask for guidance they told me such information can not be released to the public and that's just the way it is, that's why I'll probably go to the big buddy

Yes I know it's weird but..

I don't see why an FOI request wouldn't cover this. The CFA and VicPol both have public pages listing all active stations. And you can pull all the ambo stations from VicEmergency (there's little station icons on there), that's just inconvenient and time consuming, and they're a public agency and FOIs exist for a reason and I'm stubborn

[–] underwatermagpies@aussie.zone 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yep. It's about the information, not the document. Go for it.

And I am shocked that that info isn't readily available on their website.

[–] Baku@aussie.zone 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Thanks mag. It is a bit bizarre. It's on a map, some of them are on Google, but when it comes to an actual list that's not allowed, for some reason. Oh, and, the ones that have been recently upgraded are listed here

Here's the public requests they ignored, if anybody was curious: https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/av_branchstation_locations

https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/locations

Granted, those guys seem to have given up, at least in their public pursuit. I, however, am stubborn and have experience in fighting government agencies tooth and nail over minor things. If they ignore my request, I'll just go one level higher until somebody doesn't ignore me, or I run out of levels lol

Edit: also this should be public knowledge imo, so when I get it, I'll publish it everywhere I can

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