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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Correspondance and notes relating to decision to not investigate dual citizenship of Tony Abbott
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Ben Smith on .

Information not held.

For Official Use Only Dear Mr Smith,   Freedom of Information Request FOI 16/008   Please find attached a copy of the decision in your FOI re...
Application to declare Grant Skinner vexatious
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Grant Skinner on .

Refused.

UNCLASSIFIED Dear Mr Skinner,   Please find attached a statement of reasons in relation to your FOI request (FOI16/005).   Regards Jo  ...
Commissioner Heydon Invoices
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Phillip Sweeney on .

Refused.

UNCLASSIFIED Dear Mr Sweeney, Freedom of Information Request FOI15/176 I refer to my below email advising of the estimated charges for your FOI...
Anti-Terrorism Hotline call about Man Haron Monis
Response by Attorney-General's Department to A Greasley on .

Refused.

UNCLASSIFIED Good afternoon Mr/Ms Greasley   Please find attached a statement of reasons in relation to your FOI request (FOI15/116).   Rega...
Australia's Worst White-Collar Crime
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Phillip Sweeney on .

Refused.

UNCLASSIFIED Dear Mr Sweeney,   I refer to your FOI request of 21 December 2014 for:   The document I seek includes on the front page the wor...
The empowering document, documents or legislation issued by the United Kingdom Goverment or Parliament empowering the Queen of Australia
Response by Attorney-General's Department to scott on .

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UNCLASSIFIED 14/14651   14 November 2014   Scott By email only: [1][FOI #796 email] Dear Scott Freedom of Information Request no. 14/23...
Individual Submissions to the Copyright Discussion Paper
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Geordie Guy on .

Refused.

UNCLASSIFIED Dear Mr Guy   Freedom of Information request – FOI14/195   Please find attached a statement of reasons in relation to your FOI...
Appeals from a Supreme Court to the High Court
Request to Attorney-General's Department by knav2013. Annotated by knav2013 on .

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The internal review does provide some impressive evidence about the plight of Self Represented Litigants'. The decision maker actually goes over and ab...
List of attendees and documents from official briefing on May 27th 2014
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Anthony Dunbar on .

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UNCLASSIFIED Dear Mr Dunbar,   Please find attached a letter from Mr Paul O’Sullivan, Chief of Staff to the Attorney-General.   Regards, O...
IT Network Documentation - IPv4/v6 Public Facing addresses
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Ben Fairless on .

Refused.

UNCLASSIFIED Dear Mr Fairless Freedom of Information Request no. FOI14/139   I refer to your request for internal review of a decision of the...
Prohibitions in making an application to Tribunal
Request to Attorney-General's Department by knav2013. Annotated by knav2013 on .

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Dear Locutus, What I was highlighting there by attaching the link to the Law Reform Comittee document, point 24 in particular was that "the Model Vex...
Applications to VCAT seeking (interim) restraining order/injunction against a landlord(s)
Request to Attorney-General's Department by knav2013. Annotated by knav2013 on .

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Dear Annotator, You seem to have worked out my gender now. But then you also seem to have missed working out the founder of RTK before you left an an...
Internet Filter, Anti-Piracy, Lobby groups, etc.
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Megalfar on .

Refused.

UNCLASSIFIED Dear 'Megalfar' As noted in the email below, you have failed to respond to this Department's notice of intention to refuse your request b...
Copyright Infringement Roundtable
Request to Attorney-General's Department by Geordie Guy. Annotated by Daniel O'Connor on .

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As per the other annotation, answers to Sen. Ludlam in the senate show that there have since been meetings with Telstra - if the documents didn't exist...
KAFTA Copyright Amendment Justification Documents (AGD)
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Brendan Molloy on .

Refused.

UNCLASSIFIED Dear Mr Molloy,   I refer to your request under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act) for access to documents relating to t...
Documents pertaining to the repeal of s18C Racial Discrimination Act 1975
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Robert Candelori on .

Refused.

UNCLASSIFIED Dear Mr Candelori,   I refer to your FOI Request for documents related to the proposed repeal of section 18C of the Racial Discrimi...
PCI Compliance
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Ben Fairless on .

Information not held.

UNCLASSIFIED Good afternoon Mr Fairless Please find attached the Departments Statement of Reason regarding your internal review of FOI 14/052. Kind r...
Australia's Declaration of Independence
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Ben Garrett on .

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UNCLASSIFIED Dear Mr Garrett,   Please find attached the Department’s decision with regard to your request for documents under the Freedom of In...
Any internal communications related to the proposed 'three strikes' rulings for copyright infringement
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Daniel Nolan on .

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UNCLASSIFIED Good afternoon Mr Nolan Please find attached the Departments Statement of Reasons regarding your FOI request 14/023. Kind regards Case...
Incoming ministerial briefs
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Marcus Priest on .

Refused.

UNCLASSIFIED Dear Mr Priest Please find attached a decision letter of the Department in response to your FOI application. Yours sincerely FOI Ca...
IC plans by carriers
Response by Attorney-General's Department to G King on .

Refused.

UNCLASSIFIED Dear Mr G King,   I refer to your below request for an internal review of the Department’s decision in relation to your FOI request...
ALRC Copyright Review documents in context of Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (AG)
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Brendan Molloy on .

Refused.

UNCLASSIFIED Dear Mr Molloy Re: AGD FOI matter no. 13/194 Referring to your FOI request of 31 October 2013 with the Attorney-General's Department, th...
List of carriers submitting IC plans
Response by Attorney-General's Department to G King on .

Refused.

For Official Use Only Dear Mr G King,   I refer to your request under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 for: “a list of all carriers and nomi...
Security assessment for asylum seeker Ranjini
Request to Attorney-General's Department by Malcolm Blaney. Annotated by Malcolm Blaney on .

Refused.

For anyone still interested in this request, I had a call from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner today which was very helpful. Th...
I am seeking a copy of the Hansard entry or proof that Victoria's General purposes local law 2008 has been enacted into law in the Queens name
Response by Attorney-General's Department to peter weissbacher on .

Information not held.

UNCLASSIFIED Dear Mr Weissbacher Please find attached a decision letter of the Department in response to your FOI application. Yours sincerely FOI...

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