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What I found on this entity
$280M department responsible for legal and justice policy. Annual report lists activities, not measurable outcomes. ANAO qualified the department's performance framework as insufficient.
Annual Budget
$280M
Prior year: $270M (+4%)
Headcount
1,200 staff
$233K per employee
Budget Trend
→ Budget Flat
Portfolio
Attorney-General
Performance Targets vs Actuals
Actual
Performance statements contain qualitative descriptors only — no quantified targets or outcomes
$89M spent on external lawyers — the department that's supposed to BE the lawyers
The Attorney-General's Department — the Commonwealth's principal legal adviser — spent $89 million of your taxes on an external legal services panel. That's nearly a third of its entire $280 million annual budget going to outside lawyers, raising serious questions about why Australia's top legal department can't do more of this work in-house with the staff you're already paying for.