About the Portfolio
The Attorney-General’s portfolio comprises the Attorney-General’s Department and a number of statutory and non-statutory bodies. The portfolio covers a broad range of law and justice matters and services including legal policy and services to the Commonwealth in areas of 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, administration of territories and management of the Australian Government’s interests in the National Capital.
The Attorney-General’s Department website contains a list of agencies that fall within the Attorney-General’s portfolio.
Responsibilities
- Administrative law
- Appointments
- Alternative dispute resolution
- Australian Security Intelligence Organisation
- Bankruptcy law
- Border Protection Sub-Committee of Cabinet
- Copyright
- Community Legal Services
- Constitutional issues
- Courts, Tribunals and the Judiciary
- Director of Public Prosecutions
- Electronic transactions regulation
- Emergency Management Australia
- Evidence Act
- Family law, including marriage celebrants
- Human rights
- Identity security
- Indigenous justice
- Indigenous legal aid
- Insolvency Trustee Service Australia
- Inter-country adoption
- International law
- International Criminal Court
- Law reform
- Legal aid
- Legal profession and legal services coordination
- Ministerial Council for Police and Emergency Management – Emergency Management
- National security and counter-terrorism
- National Security Hotline
- Native Title
- Office of Parliamentary Counsel
- Organised crime
- Portfolio Budget
- Pro bono legal assistance
- Protection of critical infrastructure and national information infrastructure
- National Security website
- Trusted Information Sharing Network (TISN) website
- National Spatial Information Management (NSIM) website
- Protective security coordination
- Royal Commissions
- Standing Committee of Attorneys-General
- Telecommunications interception
- Tracking and listening devices.