Annual Report 2003-04 Introduction -Table of Contents
Attorney-General's Department
© Commonwealth of Australia 2004
ISSN 1034-2559
ISBN 0 642 21102 7
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20 October 2004
Attorney-General
Attorney-General's Department Annual Report 2003-04
In accordance with section 63 (1) of the Public Service Act 1999, I submit the Annual Report of the Attorney-General's Department for presentation to the Parliament. I certify that this report complies with the requirements referred to in sub-section 63 (2) of the Act.
Under current arrangements, annual reports are required to be tabled by 5 November 2004.
Robert Cornall
Secretary
Contents
Readers' Guide
Secretary's Review
Portfolio Overview
Departmental Overview
- Role and functions
- Mission
- Outcomes and outputs framework
- Organisational structure
- Division and office functional responsibilities
- Snapshots: finance and staffing
- Mission
Report on Performance
- Reporting basis and approach
- Performance report structure
- Outcome 1 - An equitable and accessible system of federal civil justice
- Performance report structure
- Overview
- Highlights for 2003-04
- Resource summary
- Administered items for Outcome 1
- Output 1.1 - Legal services and policy advice on courts and tribunals, alternative dispute resolution, administrative law, human rights, evidence and procedure
- Output 1.2 - Support for the Attorney-General as First Law Officer, advice on constitutional policy, and promotion of Australian legal services internationally
- Output 1.3 - Legal services and policy advice on family law and legal assistance and the administration of government programs providing legal assistance and family law related services
- Output 1.4 - Legal services and policy advice on international law
- Output 1.5 - Drafting of legislative and other instruments, publication of legislative materials and provision of related legal services
- Output 1.6 - Legal services and policy advice on information law
- Output 1.7 - Legal services and policy on native title
- Highlights for 2003-04
- Outcome 2 - Coordinated federal criminal justice, security and emergency management activity, for a safer Australia
- Overview
- Highlights for 2003-04
- Resource summary
- Administered items for Outcome 2
- Output 2.1 - Policy advice on, and program administration and regulatory activities associated with, the Commonwealth's domestic and international responsibilities for criminal justice and crime prevention, and meeting Australia's obligations in relation to extradition and mutual assistance
- Output 2.2 - Legal services and policy advice on security law
- Output 2.3 - Provide national leadership in the development of emergency management measures to reduce risk to communities and manage the consequences of disasters
- Output 2.4 - Development and promotion of protective security policy, advice and common standards and practices, and the coordination of protective security services, including counter-terrorism and dignitary protection
- Output 2.5 - Management and coordination of the delivery of security and guarding services to meet diplomatic, consular and other Commonwealth responsibilities
- Highlights for 2003-04
Management and Accountability
- Corporate governance
- The governance framework
- Accountability framework - integrated performance management
- Conduct and ethics
- Risk management
- Fraud control
- Service charters
- Trade Measures Review Officer
- Accountability framework - integrated performance management
- External scrutiny
- Reports by the Australian National Audit Office
- Parliamentary committees, courts, administrative tribunals and Ombudsman
- Financial management
- Analysis of financial performance
- Competitive tendering and contracting
- Consultancy services
- Advertising and market research
- Discretionary grants
- Purchasing
- Assets management
- Competitive tendering and contracting
- Human resource management
- Staff profile
- Workforce planning
- Staff retention and turnover
- Staff recognition
- Workplace diversity
- Occupational health and safety
- Certified Agreement and Australian Workplace Agreements
- Performance pay
- Training and development
- Workforce planning
- Information and knowledge management
- Strategic framework
- IT governance
- IT infrastructure
- IT sourcing
- Knowledge management
- Law and justice portal
- Information management capability
- Other key outcomes
- IT governance
- Social equity impacts
- Social justice
- Commonwealth Disability Strategy
- Ecologically sustainable development and environmental performance
Financial Statements
[PDF file - 462KB]
Appendixes
- Reporting arrangements for other elements in the Attorney-General's portfolio
- Freedom of Information matters
- Service charters
- Consultancy services
- Advertising and market research
- Staffing profile
- Staff achievements
- Occupational health and safety
- Commonwealth Disability Strategy
- Extradition, mutual assistance and criminal justice certificates
- The International Criminal Court Act 2002
Glossaries and Indexes
Figures and tables
- Figures
- Figure 1: Organisational structure, outcomes and outputs
- Figure 2: Appropriations 2003-04
- Figure 3: National Security Hotline calls 2003-04
- Figure 4: Australian Security Vetting Service clearances
- Figure 5: Departmental revenues and expenses, 2002-03 and 2003-04
- Figure 6: Administered expenses, 2002-03 and 2003-04
- Figure 2: Appropriations 2003-04
- Tables
- Table 1: Salary ranges under Certified Agreement Australian Workplace Agreement
- Table 2: Performance payments
- Table 3: Compliance with customer service standards 2003-04
- Table 4: New consultancy contracts of value $10,000 or more, let during 2003-04
- Table 5: Payments to advertising, market research and other designated organisations
- Table 6: Staffing by location (region), broad-banded classification and gender - paid staff (full-time equivalent)
- Table 7: Staff numbers by broad-banded classification/gender and employment category/employment status - paid staff (head count)
- Table 8: Comparative statistics for extradition and mutual assistance cases 1999-2000 to 2003-04
- Table 2: Performance payments