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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Response by Attorney-General's Department to kenneth stagg on .

Partially successful.

UNCLASSIFIED Dear Mr Stagg,   Please find attached a signed decision letter in relation to your request for internal review regarding FOI17/199....
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 .

Partially successful.

UNCLASSIFIED   Dear Mr Singleton Norton,   FOI request: FA18/09/01316 I refer to your email dated 21 September 2018 in which you requested a...
FOI Delegations
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Ben Fairless on .

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UNCLASSIFIED Dear Mr Fairless Thank you for your request. The Attorney-General's Department has decided to release the requested documents administr...
Online Services Strategy for Royal Commissions
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Simon Victory on .

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UNCLASSIFIED Dear Mr Victory   I refer to your email below making enquiries regarding a subdomain.   I have provided a response to your queries un...
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...
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...
2016/17 Additional Estimates Topics
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Jackson Gothe-Snape on .

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UNCLASSIFIED Dear Mr Gothe-Snape   Please find attached the signed decision letter and document released in respect of your Freedom of Informati...
List of entities with access to telecom data
Follow up sent to Attorney-General's Department by Craig Davis on .

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Thanks for your message, it does indeed answer my query. Best regards, Craig
Employee information provided to ballot agents in Enterprise Agreement bargaining
Response by Attorney-General's Department to James Smith on .

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UNCLASSIFIED Dear Mr Smith Please find attached the document containing the information you requested from the Attorney-General’s department on 16...
Supplementary Budget Estimates topics
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Jackson Gothe-Snape on .

Partially successful.

UNCLASSIFIED Dear Jackson Gothe-Snape,   Freedom of Information request – FOI16/177   Please find attached the decision in relation to your F...
Outcome of recruitment process 493127/AGD - First Assistant Secretary - Senior Executive Service Band 2
Follow up sent to Attorney-General's Department by JPK on .

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Thank you Yours sincerely, JPK
All applicable entities in relation to the Protective Security Policy Framework
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Christopher Flynn on .

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UNCLASSIFIED Dear Mr Flynn   Thank you for your e-mail of 17 November 2016 in which you requested the list that identifies all of the applicable...
Airsoft Policy 210
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Mark Mildenhall on .

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UNCLASSIFIED Good afternoon Mr Mildenhall,   Freedom of Information Request FOI16/135   Please find attached the decision letter for your Fre...
FOI Delegations - 2016
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Ben Fairless on .

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UNCLASSIFIED Dear Mr Fairless   As requested in your email below, please see attached a copy of the current FOI delegations for the Attorney‑G...
Latest document on cases investigated under section 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act
Response by Attorney-General's Department to EnergizerBunny on .

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UNCLASSIFIED Dear Eliza   I am writing in response to your email to the Attorney‑General’s Department yesterday, in which you sought inform...
Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in NSW,QLD, NT Station Cells in The Last Decade
Request to Attorney-General's Department by Ben. Annotated by Henare Degan on .

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Weird that the authority didn't just email the document but instead provided a link to the disclosure log. Here's a direct link to the PDF on the dis...
Dates and duration of consultation between the Attorney General’s Department and other agencies regarding the framework for the plebiscite on same-sex marriage
Request to Attorney-General's Department by Henare Degan. Annotated by Henare Degan on .

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I requested these documents because in this Crikey article https://www.crikey.com.au/2016/11/03/government-diaries-released-sort/ they correctly compla...
Social media policy
Follow up sent to Attorney-General's Department by James Smith on .

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Thank you for providing the requested information. Yours sincerely, James Smith
Requests for Access to Telecommunications Metadata under 176A of the TIA
Request to Attorney-General's Department by Geordie Guy. Annotated by Rob Cumming on .

Partially successful.

The improper use of metadata is to be deplored. #casa has a long history of poor investigations, false statements and abandoned criminal prosecutions....
Latest document summarising current state of work on ALRC 112, Secrecy Laws and Open Government in Australia
Request to Attorney-General's Department by Peter Timmins. Annotated by Peter Timmins on .

Partially successful.

The 2012 briefing note released after all this is here: https://app.box.com/s/f5d4f113zy14bhqcw183 (pdf) The OAIC handed down a decision on those atta...
FOI14139 Decision
Request to Attorney-General's Department by Ben Fairless. Annotated by Alan Hilvert-Bruce on .

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Although I'm really late to this party, I noticed a quirk with this request. The agreed scope as between Ben and AG's is: "a copy of the Decision L...
Conduct of functions of OAIC from 1 january 2015
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Peter Timmins on .

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UNCLASSIFIED Dear Mr Timmins   Please find attached a decision in relation to your request for documents under the FOI Act, as well as a schedul...
FOI Policies in relation to Disabled Applicants
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Ben Fairless on .

Partially successful.

UNCLASSIFIED Dear Mr Fairless   I refer to your request for documents under the Freedom of Information Act 1982. Please find attached the Depart...
Submissions to Consultation on Amendments to the Racial Discrimination Act
Request to Attorney-General's Department by Brendan Molloy. Annotated by Matthew Landauer on .

Partially successful.

This request is referenced in http://www.zdnet.com/au/attorney-generals-department-censors-public-view-on-piracy-7000035125/
Data retention documents
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Ben Grubb on .

Successful.

UNCLASSIFIED Good afternoon Mr Grubb Please find attached Documents released in response to FOI13/220. Kind Regards FOI Contact Officer Freedom of...

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