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The Australian Government has made changes to functions overseen by the Attorney-General's Department and Department of Home Affairs. These changes involve the transfers of:

  • identity and biometrics functions into the Attorney-General's Department
  • protective security policy and government and major event security functions to the Department of Home Affairs.

Agreement to Implement the Justice Policy Partnership

Publication date

The Joint Council of Closing the Gap endorsed a draft Agreement to Implement the Justice Policy Partnership on 6 August 2021. The final text of the Agreement to Implement the Justice Policy Partnership was agreed by consensus at the Justice Policy Partnership meeting on 23-24 September 2021.