Attorney-General's Department

Part of the Attorney-General portfolio and a Federal authority, also called AGD

The Attorney-General's Department was one of the original departments established at Federation in 1901. It serves the Attorney-General's and the Minister for Home Affairs and provides policy advice and services to the Commonwealth in the following main areas: administrative, constitutional, civil, family and international law, international crime cooperation, Indigenous legal justice, law reform, bankruptcy estate administration and regulation, Commonwealth courts and tribunals, legal aid, native title, national and international human rights issues, censorship, criminal law and law enforcement, national security, emergency management, some aspects of customs and border control.

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Submissions to consultation of Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Tim Singleton Norton on .
Awaiting classification.
UNCLASSIFIED Good afternoon Mr Singleton Norton We refer to the below email sent out on 15 October 2018 seeking your agreement to withdraw above menti...
Australia is a signatory to the International covenant on Civil and Political Rights and Human Rights
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Eddie on .
Refused.
UNCLASSIFIED Dear Kevin Thank you for your email. You have emailed the Attorney-General’s Department Freedom of Information section. The Attorney-G...
Information on Wikileaks, its Australian staff, and Julian Assange.
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Snehan Kekre on .
Refused.
UNCLASSIFIED Dear Mr Kekre   Please find attached correspondence in respect of your request below.   Yours sincerely   FOI Case Manager...
Seeking VALID information
Response by Attorney-General's Department to kenneth stagg on .
Awaiting classification.
UNCLASSIFIED Dear Mr Stagg,   Please find attached a signed decision letter in relation to your request for internal review regarding FOI17/199....
Online Services Strategy for Royal Commissions
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Simon Victory on .
Successful.
UNCLASSIFIED Dear Mr Victory   I refer to your email below making enquiries regarding a subdomain.   I have provided a response to your queries un...
800,000+ jobs created since July 2016......Really ?
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Vito Guzzardi on .
Information not held.
UNCLASSIFIED Good afternoon I refer to your email below. Please be advised that the email address for the FOI unit in the Attorney General's Departme...
Precise salaries paid to the Department’s SES officers for FY14/15, FY15/16 and FY16/17
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Name withheld on .
Refused.
UNCLASSIFIED Dear Applicant,   Please find attached the signed decision letter in respect of your request for documents under the Freedom of Inf...
Dissemination by the FWBC of false information - ethics and accountability in the Commonwealth Public Sector
Response by Attorney-General's Department to JS on .
Information not held.
UNCLASSIFIED Dear JS Please find attached a decision in response to your request for internal review below. Yours sincerely FOI Case Manager Freed...
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
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Richard Smith on .
Partially successful.
UNCLASSIFIED FOI17/142; 17/8681 Dear Mr Smith Please find attached a decision letter, schedule of documents and documents, and Attachments A, B and C...
2016-17 Most Expensive Trip
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Jackson Gothe-Snape on .
Long overdue.
UNCLASSIFIED Dear Mr Gothe-Snape Freedom of Information Request FOI17/137   On 8 August 2017 you requested access to documents, specifically th...
2016-17 Most Expensive Event
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Jackson Gothe-Snape on .
Refused.
UNCLASSIFIED Dear Mr Gothe-Snape On 8 August 2017 you requested access to documents, specifically the following:             “Can you please pro...
Article 61 Magna Carta
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Ringer on .
Information not held.
UNCLASSIFIED Good morning,   I am writing in response to your email of 18 October 2017 to the Freedom of Information and Parliamentary Section o...
Private use of social media advice provided to employees
Response by Attorney-General's Department to James Smith on .
Refused.
UNCLASSIFIED Dear Mr Smith,   Please find attached a signed letter in respect of your Freedom of Information request.   The department’s FOI...
Indonesian Minors jailed in Australian Adult Prisons
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Asher Hirsch on .
Refused.
UNCLASSIFIED   Dear Asher Hirsch Freedom of Information Request FOI17/118 On 4 July 2017 you requested access to documents, specifically the f...
Group Certificates/PAYG payment summaries of the Department’s SES staff - FY2013/14, FY2014/15 and FY2015/16
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Name withheld on .
Refused.
UNCLASSIFIED Dear Sir/Madam, Thank you for your email dated 25 July 2017. The department has considered your query and can offer the following inform...
All documents relating to special purposes prohibited importation 096IP/2017
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Dave Everett on .
Awaiting classification.
UNCLASSIFIED Dear Mr Everett Freedom of Information request FOI 17/102 On 10 July 2017  the department provided you with a charges notice in rel...
Contempt of court - Hunt, Tudge, Sukkar
Follow up sent to Attorney-General's Department by Voting Public on .
Long overdue.
Still awaiting a response to my FOI request. Yours faithfully, Voting Public
Request for mobile communications via mobile applications
Request to Attorney-General's Department by Ben Fairless. Annotated by Locutus Sum on .
Refused.
This is a very strange and interesting request. Mr Fairless writes with a request to the department of the Attorney General (the "AGD"). AGD replies to...
Letter to the Solicitor-General
Request sent to Attorney-General's Department by Phillip Sweeney on .
Long overdue.
The document I seek is a copy of a letter sent to the Commonwealth Solicitor-General sated 27 September 2016 titled: "Re: Evidence for a Royal Commi...
Agendas or briefing documents relating to the Five Eyes meeting in Queenstown, New Zealand in April 2017.
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Greg McDonald on .
Refused.
UNCLASSIFIED Dear Mr McDonald,   Please find attached a decision with respect to your Freedom of Information request, received by the department...
Enterprise bargaining - what information is provided to department about employees' votes?
Request to Attorney-General's Department by James Smith. Annotated by Verity Pane on .
Partially successful.
On 26 Feb 2017 Applicant made a FOI request to AGD (FOI 17/042), of which decision was issued 30 March 2017. The Applicant sought internal review on 31...
Metadata retention scheme exemption
Request to Attorney-General's Department by Rodney Malone. Annotated by Locutus Sum on .
Waiting clarification.
Note to the applicant: It might be helpful to consider whether you can introduce any criteria that would reduce the number of discovered documents. Pos...
Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child application outcomes
Clarification sent to Attorney-General's Department by Michael Cohen on .
Long overdue.
I have emailed [email address] directly with a revised request with a narrower scope of only detailed information regarding incoming and outgoing Ha...
2016/17 Additional Estimates Topics
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Jackson Gothe-Snape on .
Successful.
UNCLASSIFIED Dear Mr Gothe-Snape   Please find attached the signed decision letter and document released in respect of your Freedom of Informati...
George Brandis' appointment diary for 20 Feb 2017
Follow up sent to Attorney-General's Department by Mark Newton on .
Long overdue.
On Feb 28 2017, you referred an FOI request from me to the Attorney-General's Office. Since then, I have not received any response pursuant to my...

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