Talk:Attorney-General of Australia

message: There should probably be a more direct and obvious link from this page to the state AG pages, eg Attorney-General of Western Australia (and between the state AGs?). I could add them to a See also section, but I suspect that a  is a better approach. Does someone more familiar than I with politics/legal categories and navboxes want to address this? Mitch Ames (talk) 01:58, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: In the absence of any feedback, I've added a list under See also.  The list includes some redlinks, which contravenes WP:SEEALSO, but I feel that a complete list here is better than a partial list. Perhaps someone will take the hint and create the articles - or at least stubs! Here's a list of them all. Mitch Ames (talk) 12:17, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  links to state Attorneys-General 

message: There appears to me to be a gap in the list, from 24 Mar 1993 to 1 Apr 1993 - I can't find a reference that mentions this 8 day period. Can anyone help / clarify / define / whatever? Thanks in advance. Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 12:43, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Solved/resolved by User:Rangasyd. Pdfpdf (talk) 13:32, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gap in [[Attorney-General for Australia#List of Attorneys-General|List of As-G]]? 

message: What is the purpose of the list of how many days each person has served? Isn't it essentially covered by the last column of the main table? Green Giant (talk) 20:46, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Attorneys-General by time served 

message: "Attorney General of Australia" might be a common informal name, but the official title is "Attorney-General for Australia", as is abundantly clear from the front page of the official website. This is the traditional, and constitutionally correct, form under a Westminster system. We should use the official title in the lead. The informal variant is adequately explained in the footnote. Grammatically, it's always "attorney-general [of person or polity] for [place]". So it's "Attorney-General of the Duchy of Lancaster", "of the United States", etc, but it's "Attorney-General [of the monarch] for England and Wales", "Advocate-General [of the monarch] for Scotland", etc. The official usage in Australia is consistent with that. Perhaps "Attorney-General of the Commonwealth of Australia" would be correct, but the official title is not framed that way - it's framed as attorney-general (of the monarch) for Australia s a place.  --49.255.223.3 (talk) 23:44, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: See the RM above this discussion and the note in the lead. The official title is just "Attorney-General".5225C (talk • contributions) 00:57, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  That's a non-sequitur. The question is do you put "Attorney-General for Australia" or "Attorney-General of Australia" at the start. "Attorney-General" alone is clearly inappropriate. As the article itself notes, "Attorney General of Australia" is old - and possibly colloquial. The office itself uses "Attorney-General for Australia". --49.255.223.3 (talk) 07:39, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Again, see the RM above. I assure you it is quite sound in its reasoning, since the official title is simply "Attorney-General" (so neither "of Australia" nor "for Australia" is an "official title", as you're trying to make out). The aricle was moved per WP:COMMONNAME. The name used by the office doesn't really factor into this. 5225C (talk • contributions) 09:16, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Official title 

message: I can see that the titles for former Attorneys-General who have taken silk have been updated to reflect the change from QC to KC. It appears most of the ones updated are those who are living though some died with the title QC and have been updated to KC.
Surely the list should reflect their titles as at their last point before they left office? This would undoubtedly be a more accurate reflection of who held the role at the time. Jekrox (talk) 07:22, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, you're right, it should be how it was when they left office. 5225C (talk • contributions) 07:46, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  KC for former Attorneys-General