Skip to main content

Caretaker conventions now in place

Ahead of the 2025 federal election the Australian Government has assumed a caretaker role.

We are operating in accordance with caretaker conventions

Freedom of information disclosure log

Australian Government agencies must publish on their websites details of information they release in response to freedom of information requests.

FOI Disclosure Log

They are required to do so under Subsection 11C(3) of the Freedom of Information Act 1982.

Set out below are descriptions of information and documents we have released.

We are committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. Refer to our website statement of accessibility. Please contact us if anything on this page is inaccessible to you or you experience problems accessing documents.

To obtain copies of previous documents, email: FOI@ag.gov.au.

Copyright

If you wish to reuse the information on the FOI disclosure log, you need to consider the copyright issues. Refer to our Copyright statement for information about the copyright of material we produce and publish on the disclosure log.

If a third party holds copyright in some of the published information, you may need to seek their permission before you can reuse that material.

For details on how to make an FOI request, visit the Freedom of Information page.

An archived version of the Archived freedom of information guidelines and memoranda webpage is available on Trove.

Description and dates of documents released under Freedom of Information

Reference number Date of access Sort ascending Request Info published Decision maker
FOI24/168 04/11/2024 Documents relating to the Australian government tax exemption agreement negotiated with FIFA. 7 documents released in part.
View documents for FOI24/168
Department
FOI24/381 01/11/2024 Documents relating to the organisation and operation of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, including reviews of past child abuse enquiries to inform its work. 2 documents released in full.
View documents for FOI24/381
Department
FOI24/198 30/10/2024 Documents relating to the department’s assessment of organisations to be recognised under the Marriage Act 1961. 1 document released in full. 4 documents released in part.
View documents for FOI24/198
Department
FOI24/325 18/10/2024 Electronic documents between 25 September 2001 and 31 December 2005 concerning reforms made to limitation periods when compiling the Model Defamation Provisions 2005. 4 documents released in part.
View documents for FOI24/325
Department
FOI23/571-IC 18/10/2024 Section 55G decision for documents in relation to dispute settlement proceedings between Zeph Investments and Australia from 1 July 2020 to 31 December 2020. 13 documents released in full and 9 documents released in part.
View documents for FOI23/571-IC
Department
FOI24/163 17/10/2024 Hot Topic Briefs and the index of Back Pocket Briefs prepared by the Attorney General’s Department for the Additional Senate Estimates hearings in February 2024. 2 documents released in part.
View documents for FOI24/163
Department
FOI24/350 14/10/2024 Documents relating to the appointment of Commonwealth King's Counsel and Queen's Counsel. 1 document released in full and 5 documents released in part.
View documents for FOI24/350
Department
FOI24/411 03/10/2024 Documents relating to the Australian Government Graduate Program, including the number of total applicants for the 2024 and 2025 programs, the number of candidates who reach the merit pool, information about which departments and agencies graduates in the merit pool preference, and documentation related to the promotion of the program to graduates and how the department seeks to attract graduates to apply for legal roles within the Australian Public Service. 9 documents released in full and 3 documents released in part.
View documents for FOI24/411
Department
FOI24/154 24/09/2024 The contents of the file 23/43962 Migration Act Amendments - CSO Scheme introduction as listed in the departments Senate Order file list. 2 documents released in full and 22 documents released in part.
View documents for FOI24/154
Department
AGOFOI23/465 19/09/2024 Documents relating to court matter Stradford (a pseudonym) v Judge Vasta [2023] FCA 1020. 1 document released in full and 1 document released in part.
View documents for AGOFOI23/465
The Hon Mark Dreyfus KC MP
FOI24/040 18/09/2024 Copies of any media plan or overarching media strategy document(s) held by AGD to help manage public communications about the Robodebt Royal Commission response and recommendations between 1 October and 22 November 2023. 1 document released in full and 10 documents released in part.
View documents for FOI24/040
Department
FOI24/300 17/09/2024 Correspondence regarding India Australia Strategic Alliance and LibertyWorks in regards to the Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Act 2018. 1 document released in full and 9 documents released in part.
View documents for FOI24/300
Department
FOI24/303 12/09/2024 Documents to and/or from the Attorney-General and/or his office in relation to the International Criminal Court’s applications for arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant from 19 May 2024 to 13 June 2024 1 document released in full and 8 documents released in part.
View documents for FOI24/303
Department
FOI23/417 11/09/2024 Email correspondence from January 2017 to July 2017 between the Attorney-General’s Department and the National Indigenous Australians Agency (previously within the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet) that attaches the Uluru Statement from the Heart or draft versions of it. 3 documents released in full and 14 documents released in part.
View documents for FOI23/417
Department
FOI24/359 10/09/2024 Training material, templates, policies and procedures relating to APP12 of the Privacy Act 1988.
1 document released in full.
View documents for FOI24/359
Department
FOI24/223 29/08/2024 Documents referred to in an exchange in Senate Estimates in February 2023 regarding the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp. 1 document released in full and 9 documents released in part.
View documents for FOI24/223
Department
FOI23/583 22/08/2024 Documents relating to the exercise of Division 268 and 274 of the Commonwealth Criminal Code. 6 documents released in part
View documents for FOI23/583
Department
FOI23/632 22/08/2024 The final agreed scope of work provided by Ernst and Young for the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability. 1 document released in part.
View documents for FOI23/632
Department
FOI24/302 19/08/2024 All correspondence between the Group of Eight and the Attorney-General or the Attorney-General’s Department and Department of Education regarding freedom of speech. 1 document released in full and 3 documents released in part.
View documents for FOI24/302
Department
FOI24/220 11/07/2024 List of Information Commissioner reviews of the Office of the Attorney-General. 1 document released in part.
View documents for FOI24/220
Department