Portfolio
The Attorney-General’s portfolio comprises the Attorney-General’s Department and a number of statutory and non-statutory bodies.
Ministerial responsibilities
- Indigenous legal aid
- Intercountry adoption
- International law
- International Criminal Court
- Law reform
- Legal aid
- Legal profession and legal services coordination
- National security, including
- Law and policy, including counter-terrorism
- Counter-terrorism policy and coordination
- National Security Hotline
- Telecommunications interception
- Tracking and listening devices
- Countering Violent Extremism
- Auscheck
- Chemicals of security concern
- Capability development
- Critical Infrastructure Resilience
- Cyber security outreach to business including CERT Australia
- Australian Government Protective Security Policy
- Coordination of Dignitary Protection, Major Government Event Security and Physical Security Risks
- Native title
- Oversight of international legal assistance aid strategy and policy
- Personal Property Securities
- Portfolio Budget
- Privacy
- Pro bono legal assistance
- Royal CommissionsAdministrative law
- Appointments
- Alternative dispute resolution
- Bankruptcy law
- Copyright
- Community legal services
- Constitutional issues
- Courts, tribunals and the judiciary
- Criminal law (legislation and policy), including but not limited to
- Cyber crime
- Organised crime
- Anti-corruption
- Anti-money laundering
- People smuggling*
- People trafficking
- Criminal procedure, enforcement powers and tools
- Critical infrastructure resilience
- Customary Law
- Electronic transactions regulation
- Evidence Act
- Family law, including marriage celebrants
- Freedom of Information
- Human rights
- Identity security
- Indigenous justice
Agencies
- Administrative Appeals Tribunal
- Australian Government Solicitor
- Australian Human Rights Commission
- Australian Law Reform Commission
- Australian Security Intelligence Organisation
- Family Court of Australia
- Federal Court of Australia
- Federal Magistrates Court of Australia
- High Court of Australia
- Insolvency and Trustee Service Australia
- National Native Title Tribunal
- Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
- Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
- Office of Parliamentary Counsel
Committees/councils
- Standing Council on Law and Justice