Australian Government Solicitor No. 2

Welcome to the second issue of Australian Government Solicitor magazine.

We have been delighted with your response to our first issue and hope you enjoy this one as well.

As the new Australian Government Solicitor, I have been busy getting to know AGS staff and a number of our clients.

Working in partnership across what is really a Commonwealth legal team providing high-quality and ethical legal services to the Commonwealth of Australia, in this issue we profile some of our colleagues from in-house legal practices across the Commonwealth, as well as our own offices in every Australian jurisdiction.

Also, Justice Gordon of the High Court gave a very popular talk on writing reasons at our last Administrative Law Forum and has kindly allowed us to reproduce it here.

Thank you for the opportunity to work with you on so many interesting and important matters, some of which we describe in this issue. We are grateful.

Please send your comments or feedback by email to ags@ags.gov.au

Michael Kingston
The Australian Government Solicitor

In this issue

Issue 2: 2017

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ISSN 2206-7388 (Print)

ISSN 2206-737X (Online)

This biannual magazine is published by AGS Client Services. If you would like to subscribe to the print version, please email ags@ags.gov.au or call Tiff Brown on 02 6253 7246.

Editor and art director
David Whitbread

Guest writer
Justice Michelle Gordon

Writers
Sam Miley
Diana Icasate
David Whitbread

Designer
Mandy Orr

Illustrator
Tiff Brown

Web publisher
James Gergely

Photographers
Andrew Sikorski
Paul Chapman

AGS historical research
Carmel Meiklejohn

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