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DFAT
DFAT
Released
LEX13874
101 pages
PDF
The release is a set of email chains from 2019 to 2025 within DFAT's Diplomatic Security Division concerning the design and procurement of challenge coins for several security sections, including the Technical Security, Safehand and Diplomatic Mail Section, and Technical…
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DFAT
DFAT
Released
LEX13943
277 pages
PDF
This FOI release comprises a Deed of Standing Offer and associated schedules between DFAT and DT Global Asia Pacific Pty Ltd for the Pacific Australia Skills Platform (PASP), with an initial term from 9 March 2025 to 31 December 2029 and options to extend to 2033. The deed…
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DFAT
DFAT
Released
LEX13043; 13044; 13045
83 pages
PDF
The release comprises emails and forwarded correspondence from 2023 concerning the King's Cup, a rowing and military commemorative event whose origins lie in the 1919 Royal Henley Peace Regatta. The main thread is an invitation from the King's Cup Organising Committee to the…
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DFAT
DFAT
Released
LEX14087
1 page
PDF
This FOI release from DFAT contains only a cover page, labelled as a Section 17 document (LEX 14087), which restates the scope of the request. The request sought a summary of sums paid under Traveller Emergency Loans and Consular Emergency Services grants for 1 July 2025 to 30…
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DFAT
DFAT
Released
LEX14050
4 pages
PDF
This FOI release consists of a single surviving page from a DFAT Senate Estimates brief dated June 2026, catalogued under item 4A on the Middle East, covering Israel and Palestine, settlements, occupation (including the 2024 International Court of Justice advisory opinion) and…
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DFAT
DFAT
Released
LEX14039
4 pages
PDF
The release is a DFAT standard operating procedure for writing to Australian citizens aged 18 and over, who were previously involved in international custody disputes (Japan cases), to advise that they may be eligible for an Australian passport. Letters are issued only on a…
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DFAT
DFAT
Released
LEX13869
7 pages
PDF
The release comprises partial email correspondence within DFAT, principally between Mark Tattersall, First Assistant Secretary of the Polynesia Micronesia and Development Division, and officers copied to Elizabeth Peak, Craig Chittick, Stacey Nation and Charlotte Blundell…
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DFAT
DFAT
Released
LEX13944
23 pages
PDF
The release comprises internal DFAT emails, a ministerial submission (MS23-000438, marked OFFICIAL: Sensitive, cleared by Craig Maclachlan for Senator Penny Wong, with Tim Watts MP informed), draft standard operating procedure material and a draft letter template, dated between…
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DFAT
DFAT
Released
LEX13929
24 pages
PDF
The release comprises DFAT ministerial submissions and briefs to Senator Penny Wong and other portfolio ministers, covering passport and travel document fees from 2022 to mid-2026. The central document is a May 2024 submission on MYEFO measures: a 15 per cent increase in travel…
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DFAT
DFAT
Released
LEX13933
7 pages
PDF
This FOI release from DFAT comprises worksheets and reporting templates under the Australian Public Service Strategic Commissioning Framework, which aims to reduce reliance on contractors and consultants and prioritise APS employment for core work. The records list the work DFAT…
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DFAT
DFAT
Released
LEX13705
69 pages
PDF
The release comprises DFAT records, many with partial redactions and some pages marked as removed as irrelevant, covering China's disruption to Australian live rock lobster exports in late 2020 and late 2022. The 2020 material includes a Beijing cable reporting that Chinese…
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DFAT
DFAT
Released
LEX13746
205 pages
PDF
This FOI release from DFAT comprises ministerial briefing material, question-on-notice answers and attachments, spanning several Additional Budget Estimates and Estimates briefs from February 2024 to May 2026. The records track official overseas visits by portfolio ministers…
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DFAT
DFAT
Released
LEX13979
5 pages
PDF
This FOI release comprises a short email chain from June 2026 between DFAT Pacific Labour Program officers concerning the AusTender contract notice CN4106908 for the Pacific Labour Mobility Support Program (Asia Pacific), reference PLMSP 79825. The officers queried whether the…
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DFAT
DFAT
Released
LEX14017
24 pages
PDF
This FOI release comprises staff time sheets, residence guest book entries, and ambassadorial diary pages relating to the residence of the Australian Ambassador to the Holy See in Rome, covering roughly late August to early October 2025. The time sheets record daily worked…
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DFAT
DFAT
Released
LEX13988
5 pages
PDF
This Section 17 document (LEX 13988), released by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on 28 August 2026, is a data table rather than policy correspondence. It responds to a request for the daily number of workplace absences of DFAT staff, by leave category, across the…
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DFAT
DFAT
Released
LEX13187
35 pages
PDF
The release contains a contract, deed of amendment, invoices and correspondence relating to a government relations advisory engagement between DFAT and Hohlt Group Global, LLC, a Washington DC lobbying firm, for work at the Australian Embassy in Washington. The contract…
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DFAT
DFAT
Released
LEX13743
231 pages
PDF
This FOI release from DFAT, reference LEX 13743, contains material relating to Australia's combined 21st and 22nd periodic reports under the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), covering November 2017 to December 2023. The…
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DFAT
DFAT
Released
LEX13744
61 pages
PDF
The release comprises about 220 pages of email correspondence and attachments among DFAT, the Department of Social Services (DSS), the Attorney-General's Department (AGD) and the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, dated late 2024 to February 2025. It concerns…
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DFAT
DFAT
Released
LEX13825
46 pages
PDF
This FOI release comprises a DFAT contract (WHWH-0825) with Hohlt Group Global, LLC for Government Relations Advisory Services 2025-26 in Washington DC, running from 1 November 2025 to 30 April 2026, with one six-month extension option. The contract price is USD180,000, paid in…
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DFAT
DFAT
Released
LEX13786
43 pages
PDF
The release comprises emails, a Department of Finance notice, and KPMG correspondence held by DFAT between late May and early June 2026, concerning a Notification of Significant Event lodged by KPMG Australia under the Management Advisory Services Panel Head Agreement. KPMG…