Documents Regarding The Establishment Of A Judicial Commission Created From March 2024 To 6 January 2026.

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This disclosure documents the Attorney-General's Department's development of a federal judicial commission from March 2024 to January 2026. The initiative stemmed from the Australian Law Reform Commission's 2022 Report 138 (Without Fear or Favour: Judicial Impartiality and the Law on Bias), which recommended establishing an independent complaints-handling mechanism to maintain public confidence in judicial impartiality. Following the Government's in-principle support announced in the 2022-23 Budget, a departmental taskforce scoped options between August 2022 and December 2023. A public consultation paper released in January 2023 generated 57 submissions. The submission to the Attorney-General (dated 26 June 2025) addresses financial, legal, and legislative impacts alongside stakeholder implications. Substantial redactions under section 47C(1) (Cabinet deliberations) and section 42(1) (legal professional privilege) obscure key policy recommendations and legal advice. Attachments include the Government's September 2022 response to the ALRC, the consultation paper, and reference to Queensland v Mr Stradford [2025] HCA 3.