The redaction of information has been slammed by Pirate Party Australia which has labelled the department's actions as unacceptable.

"This is an unacceptably opaque attack on our civil liberties, and only further highlights the Government's continual attempts to limit the public's involvement in any governmental decision making," Pirate Party president, Rodney Serkowski, said on the .

"Of course, this could only be administrative incompetence, but the previous actions of the Attorney General's Department do not lend themselves to this explanation."

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