238 releases from DFAT

1. DFAT DFAT Released 30 Jun 2025

   In relation to the movements of a Chinese naval task group that sailed through international wa-ters between Australia and New Zealand in February this year (see…

   LEX12432 13 pages PDF

   The release comprises an email chain from late February 2025 between DFAT's East Asia Political Branch and the First Assistant Secretary's office, attaching a draft "Hot Topic Supplementary Brief" for Additional Budget Estimates on China bilateral relations. The brief addresses…

2. DFAT DFAT Released 30 Jun 2025

   ‘….briefing materials prepared for the foreign minister about the negotiations of any bilateral agreements with Ukraine between December 1, 2024 and May 30, 2025.’

   LEX12504 10 pages PDF

   The release comprises fragments of DFAT briefing material and internal correspondence concerning Australia's bilateral security arrangements (BSAs) with Ukraine. Most pages are exempt under sections 33(a)(iii) and 47E(d), with large sections removed. The visible content includes…

3. DFAT DFAT Released 27 Jun 2025

   Since Jan 1. 2023 all emails and reports that mention Maritime Mutual Insurance Association and related companies and Since Jan 1 2023, all emails and reports that mention Paul Rankin, who is one of…

   LEX12383 15 pages PDF

   The release comprises internal DFAT email correspondence dated 24 March 2025, handling a Reuters media enquiry about Maritime Mutual, a New Zealand-registered marine insurer. The journalist asked whether DFAT was aware of the company and whether it was acting to prevent its…

4. DFAT DFAT Released 26 Jun 2025

   1. All documents relating to the list of “Treaty Villages” in Papua New Guinea (PNG) produced between November 24, 2005 (i.e., not including the 15th JAC meeting) and December 31, 2007. I am…

   LEX12448 6 pages PDF

   The release comprises six pages of DFAT material relating to the Torres Strait Treaty and PNG Treaty Village list. The visible content consists of two draft agendas: one for a Treaty Liaison Meeting in Port Moresby on 19 November 2007, listing matters arising from 2005-06…

5. DFAT DFAT Released 20 Jun 2025

   ‘finalised briefs regarding this missile, and the implications of the test (including, but not limited to, briefings that discuss its capabilities, the implications of the test firing, and…

   LEX12436 14 pages PDF

   The release comprises pages from DFAT Budget Estimates and Supplementary Budget Estimates briefing material (dated November 2024) on China's test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean on 25 September 2024, the first such launch into the Pacific…

6. DFAT DFAT Released 17 Jun 2025

   … data that the department holds relating to the lack of diversity and cultural safety for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in relation to the following: The number of Aboriginal and…

   LEX12486 4 pages PDF

   This DFAT release, reference LEX 12486, contains four data tables on First Nations identifying staff from FY2019-2020 to 2023-2024, compared with non-First Nations and total applicants or employees. The first table shows 999 First Nations applicants out of 67,745 overall…

7. DFAT DFAT Released 16 Jun 2025

   Documents or collated data that record the specific amounts and dates of monetary payments or transfers of funds from DFAT to the World Economic Forum (WEF) between 1 January 2000 and 16 March 2025

   LEX12300 1 page PDF

   The release is a DFAT ledger extract listing payments from DFAT to the World Economic Forum and related accounts, covering 2004 to 2021. It shows a 2004 World Economic Forum registration fee of $3,942.19. The largest group comprises Grow Asia initiative payments (2015 to 2021)…

8. DFAT DFAT Released 11 Jun 2025

   The incoming government brief for the Foreign Affairs, Trade and Pacific portfolios

   LEX12440 134 pages PDF

   This FOI release comprises excerpts from DFAT's incoming government brief for the Foreign Minister, covering the Foreign Affairs, Trade and Pacific portfolios, of which 223 pages were originally held. Most substantive pages are withheld under sections 33, 47E(d) and 47C of the…

9. DFAT DFAT Released 30 May 2025

   "Australia and Niue established diplomatic relations on 27 February 2013, with Australia's High Commissioner in Wellington appointed as non-resident High Commissioner to Niue. Australia established a…

   LEX12400 17 pages PDF

   This DFAT release under LEX 12400 comprises letters of introduction from the Prime Minister of Australia to counterpart heads of government, a 2016 internal email chain reporting the death of Sir Ian Turbott, the Cook Islands' sole accredited honorary representative in…

10. DFAT DFAT Released 29 May 2025

    All documents related to, and including, Australia’s response to the statement made by SR VAWG on 4 September (between 23 August – 23 November 2024); and A list of the 175 documents (consisting of…

    LEX12146 40 pages PDF

    This FOI release from DFAT contains emails, internal forwarding chains, a draft and final news release, and a schedule of 175 documents, all relating to Australia's response to a statement issued on 4 September 2024 by UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls…

11. DFAT DFAT Released 29 May 2025

    ‘a document under section 17 of the FOI Act, which includes a table with details on funding allocations, funding recipients, and grant objectives under the Inclusion and Equality Fund for the…

    LEX12417 3 pages PDF

    This DFAT release is a table titled "The Inclusion and Equality Fund: Funding Allocations 2022-23 to 2024-25", current as of 19 May 2025, listing investments, activity values, funding recipients and grant objectives. It concerns support for LGBTQIA+ civil society and human…

12. DFAT DFAT Released 26 May 2025

    ‘..reports, internal briefings, risk assessments, correspondence prepared by DFAT pertaining to activity and media reports..’

    LEX12329 76 pages PDF

    This FOI release from DFAT (LEX 12329) comprises internal emails, media inquiries and forwarded press material from 2023 to 2025 concerning alleged Indonesian military attacks on Kiwirok, Bintang Mountains Regency, Papua, in September and October 2021. Records include an…

13. DFAT DFAT Released 15 May 2025

    Any ministerial submissions provided to the Foreign Minister, other advice or briefings provided to the Foreign Minister’s Office, and DFAT talking points related to one or both of the following…

    LEX12058 75 pages PDF

    The release comprises about 80 pages of emails, talking points and draft briefing material from DFAT, mostly dated 5 to 10 February 2025. The records include email chains between DFAT's Middle East, International Law and US branches and the Prime Minister's Office and Foreign…

14. DFAT DFAT Released 15 May 2025

    Any briefing provided to the Australian Ambassador to the United States, the Hon Kevin Rudd, since 20 March 2023 for use in relation to discussions with members of the United States Congress…

    LEX12382 550 pages PDF

    This FOI release from DFAT, comprising about 692 pages (LEX 12382), contains briefing materials prepared for Ambassador Kevin Rudd in Washington for engagements with US Congress members and staff on AUKUS, the proposed sale of Virginia-class submarines to Australia, and the US…

15. DFAT DFAT Released 6 May 2025

    Australia-UK Treaty for Defence and Security Cooperation 2013 (in AUSTRALIAN TREATY SERIES [2014] ATS 21): Is it possible to provide the following documents, with redactions or omissions if…

    LEX12337 46 pages PDF

    The release comprises DFAT records relating to Australia's defence and security treaties with the United Kingdom. The principal item is the 2012 Treaty between Australia and the UK for Defence and Security Cooperation, covered by a full-powers instrument signed by Foreign…

16. DFAT DFAT Released 5 May 2025

    The Financial Dashboard Report for the Australian Embassy to the Holy See Whatever documents are required to provide the annual expenditure on salaries and allowances for the Australian Embassy to…

    LEX12158 38 pages PDF

    This FOI release from DFAT relates to the Australian Embassy to the Holy See (cost centre QHYSE) and covers financial dashboards for 2024-25, a yearly employee movement report, a Rome property lease extract, a non-ongoing SES Band 1 offer letter for the incoming ambassador, and…

17. DFAT DFAT Released 24 Apr 2025

    the number of Australian born citizens employed, the number of foreign-born citizens employed, and the number of employees of unknown birthplace, and total DFAT employees

    LEX12341 1 page PDF

    This FOI release from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade consists of a single table of workforce statistics covering 2015 to 2024, showing headcounts as at 31 December each year for combined APS and Locally Engaged Staff. It breaks down employees into Australian-born…

18. DFAT DFAT Released 22 Apr 2025

    …all documents relating to the designation of Dmitriy Mazepin (reference 6895, DOB 18/04/1968) under the Autonomous Sanctions (Designated Persons and Entities and Declared Persons – Russia and…

    LEX12126 94 pages PDF

    This FOI release from DFAT comprises emails, a sanctions tracker extract, a draft ministerial submission, a draft instrument and explanatory materials relating to the designation of Dmitriy Mazepin under Australia's Russia and Ukraine autonomous sanctions, made on 6 April 2022…

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