Attorney‑General’s Department (AGD)

This is the central hub for everything related to the portfolio: legal services, national security legislation, human rights, courts, tribunals, anti‑corruption bodies, and integrity agencies.

 

 

What You’ll Find on the AGD Site

  • Portfolio agencies including the Federal Court, Administrative Review Tribunal, National Anti‑Corruption Commission, Australian Human Rights Commission, and more.

  • Portfolio responsibilities such as criminal law, national security, integrity, human rights, and legal assistance.

  • Ministerial information, including the current Attorney‑General and their public statements.

  • Directory of all entities under the portfolio.

This is the most complete and accurate source for understanding how the Attorney‑General’s Portfolio fits into the broader Australian Government structure.

 

 

Department of the Attorney-General — Statement of Purpose

The Department of the Attorney-General is responsible for shaping and safeguarding Australia’s legal foundations. It leads national efforts in legal policy and law reform, advises on constitutional law and human rights, and drafts legislation critical to national security. It oversees the operation and independence of federal courts and tribunals, manages Australia’s international legal obligations and treaties, and provides legal services to the Commonwealth government.

Government Reform

 

 Australian Federal Police

leads national efforts in law enforcement and security, conducting investigations into terrorism, cybercrime, and serious organised crime. It protects government officials and assets, supports international policing cooperation, and plays a critical role in safeguarding Australia’s sovereignty through intelligence-led operations and strategic enforcement.

 

 

 

 

 

Attorney-General’s Department 

The Attorney-General’s Department is the legal and constitutional backbone of the Australian Government. It leads national efforts in legal policy and law reform, advises on constitutional law and human rights, and drafts legislation for national security. It oversees federal courts and tribunals, manages international legal obligations and treaties, and provides legal services to the Commonwealth.

 

 

 

 

Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) 

  • 🔍 Criminal Intelligence Collection — tracking serious and organised crime

  • 📊 National Threat Assessments — guiding law enforcement priorities

  • 🔐 Law Enforcement Data Sharing — secure systems across jurisdictions

  • 🕸️ Targeting Serious & Organised Crime — disrupting syndicates and networks

  • 🧨 Counter-Terrorism Support — intelligence for national security operations

 

  • 🕵️ Domestic Intelligence & Surveillance — monitoring threats to national security

  • 🕳️ Espionage & Foreign Interference — countering covert influence and infiltration

  • 📊 Threat Assessments & Security Advice — guiding government and defence decisions

  • 🧨 Counter-Terrorism Investigations — disrupting plots and radical networks

This department overlaps, gaps, and strategic priorities across intelligence and law enforcement.

 

Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)

It highlights:

  • 🛡️ Promoting Human Rights Protection — advancing dignity, equality, and freedom

  • 🕵️ Investigating Discrimination — handling complaints and systemic injustice

  • 📋 Inquiries into Human Rights Breaches — exposing failures in law, policy, or practice

  • 📚 Education & Public Awareness — informing citizens and institutions

  • 🧠 Supporting Law Reform — advising government on rights-based legislation

 

 

 

Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC)

 

  • 📜 Review of Current Laws — identifying outdated, inconsistent, or unjust legislation

  • 🗣️ Consultation & Research — engaging experts, communities, and stakeholders

  • 🛠️ Proposals for Legal Reform — drafting practical, evidence-based changes

  • ✅ Evidence-Based Recommendations — grounded in data, precedent, and public interest

  • 🏛️ Public & Parliamentary Education — informing debate and supporting reform

 

 

 

Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP) 

It highlights:

  • ⚖️ Criminal Prosecutions & Appeals — enforcing federal law through independent legal action

  • 📜 Prosecution Policy & Guidelines — ensuring consistency, fairness, and legal integrity

  • 🕵️ Advice to Investigative Agencies — supporting AFP, ASIC, ATO, and others with legal strategy

  • 💼 Confiscation of Criminal Assets — removing financial incentives from crime

  • 🌐 International Cooperation — working across borders to prosecute transnational offences

Attorney-General’s Department — Reform Snapshot

  • Modernise Federal Law Streamline outdated legislation, accelerate reform cycles, and prioritise family law, privacy, and Indigenous justice.

  • Increase Transparency Publish prosecution guidelines, court performance, and law reform progress; introduce public dashboards and spending reports.

  • Review National Security Powers Limit overreach, enforce sunset clauses, and mandate independent reviews of counter-terrorism laws.

  • Fix Court & Tribunal Bottlenecks Merge overlapping jurisdictions, digitise case management, and expand regional legal access.

  • Reform Legal Services to Government Centralise advice, reduce duplication, and expand pro bono and community legal support.

  • Audit Treaty Obligations Align international commitments with national interest; require parliamentary scrutiny and impact assessments. Review overview and change

 

Australian infrastructure buy back scheme

We have effectively been selling out our own country  for too long and its net effect is sending our profits oversea. whilst we are taxed higher for there short fallings.

National water infrastructure initiative

  • Australians Unified proposes significant investment in public water infrastructure to enhance storage, distribution, and reduce waste.
  • Key projects like the Hells Gate Dam would be restored, and existing infrastructure would be upgraded.
  • They advocate for funding water-efficient distribution through converting open channels to pipelines.
  • The policy includes investment in urban water conservation measures like greywater and stormwater treatment.
  • A National Water Security Council with broad representation is also proposed.
  • Australians Unified seeks to remove restrictions on on-farm dams, guaranteeing a right to capture up to four megalitres of rainwater and surface water.
  • Legal frameworks would be used to promote improved wastewater treatment and water harvesting for various uses.

 

Murray-Darling Basin reforms

  • The party rejects the 3200 GL/year environmental water recovery target and opposes water buybacks, which they claim have harmed irrigation communities.
  • Water trading would be supported only among Australian irrigators who own land and opposed for entities without land or foreign entities.
  • They aim to reverse changes to the Water Act 2007 and Basin Plan made in 2023.
  • Key elements to be restored include the 1500 GL/year buyback limit, the 320 GL/year northern Basin recovery target, and the original socio-economic test.
  • The policy prioritises infrastructure upgrades and water-efficient farming over buybacks for water recovery.
  • Restrictions on foreign ownership of water and water assets are included.
  • Transparency in water trading would be increased through a public registry.
  • Closed pipeline to move water storage open  irragation chanels
  • closed pipelines to build storage reservoirs and further hydro electric dams

 

Environment and other water issues

  • Australians Unified supports community-led projects like wetland rehabilitation for improving water quality and biodiversity.
  • They oppose injecting captured carbon dioxide waste into the Great Artesian Basin due to contamination concerns.

 

 

 
 
 
 
 

 

Australian infrastructure buy back scheme

We have effectively been selling out our own country  for too long and its net effect is sending our profits oversea. whilst we are taxed higher for there short fallings.

National water infrastructure initiative

  • Australians Unified proposes significant investment in public water infrastructure to enhance storage, distribution, and reduce waste.
  • Key projects like the Hells Gate Dam would be restored, and existing infrastructure would be upgraded.
  • They advocate for funding water-efficient distribution through converting open channels to pipelines.
  • The policy includes investment in urban water conservation measures like greywater and stormwater treatment.
  • A National Water Security Council with broad representation is also proposed.
  • Australians Unified seeks to remove restrictions on on-farm dams, guaranteeing a right to capture up to four megalitres of rainwater and surface water.
  • Legal frameworks would be used to promote improved wastewater treatment and water harvesting for various uses.

 

Murray-Darling Basin reforms

  • The party rejects the 3200 GL/year environmental water recovery target and opposes water buybacks, which they claim have harmed irrigation communities.
  • Water trading would be supported only among Australian irrigators who own land and opposed for entities without land or foreign entities.
  • They aim to reverse changes to the Water Act 2007 and Basin Plan made in 2023.
  • Key elements to be restored include the 1500 GL/year buyback limit, the 320 GL/year northern Basin recovery target, and the original socio-economic test.
  • The policy prioritises infrastructure upgrades and water-efficient farming over buybacks for water recovery.
  • Restrictions on foreign ownership of water and water assets are included.
  • Transparency in water trading would be increased through a public registry.
  • Closed pipeline to move water storage open  irragation chanels
  • closed pipelines to build storage reservoirs and further hydro electric dams

 

Environment and other water issues

  • Australians Unified supports community-led projects like wetland rehabilitation for improving water quality and biodiversity.
  • They oppose injecting captured carbon dioxide waste into the Great Artesian Basin due to contamination concerns.

 

 

 
 
 
 
 

 

Government Restructuring

Slash Government Waste and funds redirection to increase

Australians Unified is committed to slashing wasteful government spending and implementing significant budget savings of up to $90 billion per year. These savings will be achieved through targeted reforms and streamlined operations to eliminate inefficiencies and redirect funds where they are most needed.

Our plan includes:

Eliminating Wasteful Departments and Agencies

  • Abolish the Department of Climate Change and related agencies, programs, and regulations, saving approximately $30 billion per year.
  • Abolish the National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA) and bypass the Aboriginal industry by providing direct grant assistance to those in need, saving up to $12.5 billion annually.

Streamlining Federal Functions

  • Conduct a review of the functions and costs of the Federal Departments of Education and Housing to eliminate duplication with state governments.
  • Remove costly building code mandates, such as requiring all new dwellings to be wheelchair-compliant.

Reforming the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)

  • Return the NDIS to its original purpose of providing reasonable and necessary support.
  • Introduce means-testing and adjust specialist and non-specialist pay rates to sustainable levels, creating savings through equitable reforms.

Restructuring Global and Multicultural Funding

  • Withdraw from international agreements and organizations such as the United Nations, the World Health Organization, and the Paris Agreement, saving up to $1 billion per year.
  • Redirect and reduce foreign aid spending, saving up to $3 billion annually.
  • Review and reduce funding for arts and multicultural programs.

Integrating Healthcare Oversight

  • Abolish the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) and roll its essential functions into the Department of Health.
  • Review $3 billion worth of medications approved for the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) during the pandemic.

Debt Reduction and National Infrastructure

  • Use some of the savings to reduce Federal debt, which is expected to accrue interest costs of $50 billion annually by 2026-27.
  • Prioritize investments in nation-building projects such as dams, railways, and port upgrades to stimulate long-term economic growth and wealth creation.

End the Gas Rort 

  • We will end the rort on natural gas by levying royalties at the point of production, creating a domestic gas reserve, raising up to $13 billion per year

Through these reforms, we will not only slash $140 billion in wasteful spending but also position Australia for a more sustainable and prosperous economic future​. and create new departments that invest in Australia future with greater export potential and revenue, whilst redirecting our workforce and educational sectors to cater for well-established industries in the future. Essentially profitable government departments

Price indexing

Set Pricing and Consumer Price Indexing in Australia

 

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) in Australia, calculated quarterly by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), measures inflation by tracking changes in the prices of a "basket" of goods and services commonly purchased by households. Australians Unified recognizes that the CPI reflects inflation across all households, using weighted average costs for items like housing, food, transport, and recreation. It is a key economic indicator for monitoring living cost changes and guiding decisions for the government, businesses, and the public. Through price indexation policies, the government can influence industry pricing to help reduce living costs, particularly for essentials and loans.

 

Australians Unified will carefully set product pricing as it directly impacts the CPI. Since the index measures actual prices paid by consumers for a representative basket of goods and services, businesses hold significant power in price-setting, with their pricing adjustments directly affecting the national inflation rate measured by the CPI.

How Business Pricing Affects the CPI:

Direct Influence: The ABS calculates the CPI using nearly a million price points from various sources like supermarkets and retailers. Prices set by businesses and paid by consumers form the data points for this calculation.  

Market Power: In sectors with limited competition (oligopolies), companies can set prices with minimal constraints, often resulting in higher prices reflected in the CPI.  

Cost-Plus Pricing: Businesses often pass increased input costs—such as higher wages, energy expenses, or supply chain disruptions—directly to consumers through price hikes, contributing to "cost-push" inflation captured in the CPI.  

Anticipating Inflation: If businesses expect future inflation, they may preemptively raise prices, which can also impact the CPI.  

Distributing these margins evenly will help maintain business balance and enable government funding to provide assistance where needed.  

 

Oliver Hartman