Any documents or policies held by the department relating to the issuance of passports to Australian Protected Persons, including the data page (without any identifying information) of the most…

Any documents or policies held by the department relating to the issuance of passports to Australian Protected Persons, including the data page (without any identifying information) of the most recently issued document. For clarity an Australian Protected Person, was defined in subregulation 5(7) of the Citizenship Regulations 1959 as made under the then Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948-55. “Australian protected person” means a person who, having been born in New Guinea or Nauru, whether before or after the commencement of this regulation, is not a British subject and has not, in accordance with this regulation, renounced his status as, and ceased to be, an Australian protected person. From my understanding these persons were issued with Australian Passports but were not Australian Citizens, or citizens of any other country. I note that as you have mentioned this status has not been appliable in modern times, it only refers to persons born before the independence of Papua New Guinea in 1975 or the independence of Nauru - and most references in legislation have been repealed but it appears that persons who have this status remain