Please see the Privacy Act (1988) here
https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2014C00076One of your objections is under section 109 of the Australian Constitution. This act explicitly deals with inconsistency by generally deferring to State/Territory legislation. Read section 3:
"
It is the intention of the Parliament that this Act is not to affect the operation of a law of a State or of a Territory that makes provision with respect to the collection, holding, use, correction or disclosure of personal information (including such a law relating to credit reporting or the use of information held in connection with credit reporting) and is capable of operating concurrently with this Act."
The fact that WA does not have Privacy legislation is important, but not the sole consideration here because many state acts make provision for the "
collection, holding, use, correction or disclosure of personal information[...]"
Then section 6C (p36)
Starting with "
What is an organisation?", and going through to "
that is not a small business operator, a registered political party, an agency, a State or Territory authority or a prescribed instrumentality of a State or Territory."
Then further on page 37, "
What is a State or Territory authority?" which lists a huge set of things. Notably, and as I alluded to in my opening post, certain structures are exempted from this exemption. 6C(3)(c)(i) may apply to the Mint.
There are other methods by which organisations can be prescribed, exempted, or have certain functions exempted, but I doubt those are relevant here.
I think it is quite likely, but not 100% certain that
The report by WA mint to OAIC was done because that is what is required of them by the act.
Because it's not relevant to what I do, I've not looked to see if organisations exempt from the Act can volunteer to report to the OAIC.
The entire point of this is that *before* you go off complaining that the organisation has not reported completely, you should determine that the organisation is actually covered by the Act. Once you find that it is, I would recommend you direct your enquiries to the OAIC. As underfunded as they are, they have the power to actually get an answer, the Act doesn't really give an individual much power to demand anything (because there are so many ways they can fob you off).