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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Summaries of Ministers' discretionary powers
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Simon on .

Information not held.

UNCLASSIFIED Dear Simon   Please find attached the signed decision letter regarding your Freedom of Information request FOI 16/136.   Yours...
ATO Decision on Banning FOI requests via Right to Know Site
Request to Attorney-General's Department by Evelyn Doyle. Annotated by Evelyn Doyle on .

Refused.

So it appears that the ATO did not seek advice from the Attorney-General or AGD in making their decision to refuse requests that come via the Right to...
Requests for Access to Telecommunications Metadata under 176A of the TIA since 3rd November, 2015
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Gabor Szathmari on .

Refused.

UNCLASSIFIED Good afternoon Gabor Szathmari, Please find attached the decision in regards to your FOI request FOI 16/111. Regards,     FOI...
“a document identifying the amount of medical marijuana being grown in Australia for use in medical trials from January 2015 to present.”
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Brooke Gibbs on .

Information not held.

Dear Ms Gibbs,   Please find attached correspondence in relation to your Freedom of Information request.   Kind regards   Freedom of Infor...
The number of hoax/non-emergency calls made to Triple Zero (000)
Response by Attorney-General's Department to Lucy Dwyer on .

Information not held.

UNCLASSIFIED Dear Ms Dwyer Thank you for your e-mail of 23 February 2016 (below). Unfortunately, we are unable to help with your inquiry as the Common...
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 .

Information not held.

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 .

Information not held.

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 .

Information not held.

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 .

Information not held.

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 .

Information not held.

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 .

Information not held.

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...

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