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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Copy or links of law or act for use of capital names in government document
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Ajay Singh on .

Awaiting response.

Your email has been received by the Freedom of Information and Privacy Section of the Attorney-General's Department. Please note that we will only ac...
Referendum on the Voice to Parliament Advice/Documents
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Alex Pentland on .

Awaiting classification.

OFFICIAL   Dear Alex   Freedom of Information Request FOI23/179 - Request consultation process   Further to your email correspondence of ea...
Support for Israel and the Apartheid Convention
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Gareth William Smith on .

Awaiting classification.

OFFICIAL   Dear Gareth Smith   Freedom of Information Request FOI23/223   Please find attached your decision letter, including your review...
Documents relating to authority and right over man or woman
Response by Attorney-General's Department to i: a man; Shaun on .

Awaiting classification.

Dear Shaun   Thank you for your email, which was received by the Attorney-General's Department (the department) on 28 October 2022. In your email...
Request of NGA Lindy LEE Ouroboros for $14 M Budget
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Mathieu Briand on .

Awaiting classification.

OFFICIAL Dear Mathieu Thank you for applying to the Attorney-General's Department (the department) for access to documents under the Freedom of Inform...
Exemptions Provided Under the Relevant Acts to Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Trent Morrison-Francis on .

Long overdue.

OFFICIAL   Dear Mr Morrison-Francis Freedom of Information Request FOI22/006 I refer to your request under the Freedom of Information Act 1982...
Can authorities bash the public?
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Jone brone on .

Long overdue.

Dear J Pemberton   Thank you for your email to the Attorney-General’s Department Freedom of Information (FOI) section.   Your correspondence rel...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
Enterprise Agreement ballots - were employees informed of what data about them was used in the ballot?
Response by Attorney-General's Department to James Smith on .

Long overdue.

UNCLASSIFIED FOI17/066; 17/4330     7 April 2017 Mr James Smith By email: [FOI #3339 email]   Dear Mr Smith   Freedom of Information Re...
Informal request for information
Request to Attorney-General's Department by Wayne Morgan. Annotated by Locutus Sum on .

Long overdue.

Thank you Mr Wayne Morgan for the extra information to rest my curiosity.
Repeal of the Australian Courts Act (1828)
Request to Attorney-General's Department by Wayne Morgan. Annotated by Locutus Sum on .

Long overdue.

For general informatoin see the Wikipedia page on the law of Australia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Australia ). The Australian Courts Act 9...
Request concerning possible future encryption illegality
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Ralph Wiggum on .

Waiting clarification.

For Official Use Only Dear Mr Wiggum, Freedom of Information Request FOI16/179 – Invalidity of request I refer to your request made to the Atto...
The Attorney General's appointment calendar related to meetings regarding online copyright
Follow up sent to Attorney-General's Department by Mark Newton on .

Awaiting internal review.

In light of the Attorney-General's loss in the Federal Court today, I expect and require that you will give this FOI application the most expeditiou...
Court results resulting from Charges laid by S/C R. Bennett 13/07/15 event number E 59129563
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Carl Slattery on .

Long overdue.

UNCLASSIFIED Dear Mr Slattery,   I refer to your email of yesterday, 30 March 2016, seeking information about an unidentified defendant's name,...
Data retention policy paper issued to telecommunications industry
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Bill Mezzetti on .

Long overdue.

UNCLASSIFIED Good morning Mr Mezzetti   Freedom of Information Request no. FOI14/180   I refer to your request for access to documents relati...
Data retention policy paper issued to telecommunications industry
Clarification sent to Attorney-General's Department by Ben Grubb on .

Long overdue.

Hi, Please cancel this request. I no longer require access to the document. Regards, Ben Grubb
List of attendees and documents from official briefing on May 27th 2014
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Anthony Dunbar on .

Long overdue.

Thank you for your email. This is an automated response to advise you that your email has been received by the Attorney-General's Department's FOI Co...
Village Roadshow and Copyright Reform
Request to Attorney-General's Department by Geordie Guy. Annotated by Daniel O'Connor on .

Awaiting internal review.

A few things of broad interest: 1) http://scott-ludlam.greensmps.org.au/content/media-releases/estimates-who-advising-george-brandis-copyright-policy...
Copy of Hansard entry for Victorian Sheriff Act 2009
Response by Attorney-General's Department to peter weissbacher on .

Long overdue.

UNCLASSIFIED Dear Mr Weissbacher Please find attached a decision letter of the Department in response to your FOI application. Yours sincerely FOI...
Latest Open Government Partnership documents
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Henare Degan on .

Withdrawn by the requester.

UNCLASSIFIED Dear Mr Degan You will have seen that the Hon Mark Dreyfus QC MP today announced that Australia will be joining the Open Government Partn...

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