Director’s speech at the conference of the Australian Bar Association in Sydney - 29 August 2025
On 29 August 2025, the Director spoke the annual Conference of the Australian Bar Association in Sydney. The theme of the conference was “Litigating Matters of Public Interest”.
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Director’s speech at the conference of the Australian Bar Association in Sydney - 29 August 2025
On 29 August 2025, the Director spoke the annual Conference of the Australian Bar Association in Sydney. The theme of the conference was “Litigating Matters of Public Interest”.
The Director's speech focused on the public interest limb of the test for exercising the prosecutorial discretion, as set out in the Prosecution Policy of the Commonwealth.
Corporate Plan 2025–29 now available
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth) Corporate Plan 2025–29 is now available.
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Corporate Plan 2025–29 now available
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth) Corporate Plan 2025–29 is now available. The plan aims to guide and connect our strategic themes, as well as annual business and operational planning across our national prosecution practice through to 2029.
The Corporate Plan is available on the Strategic Directions page.
Legal services expenditure
Paragraph 11.1(ba) of the Legal Services Directions 2017 (the Directions) requires that, by 30 October each year, entities make publicly available records of the legal services expenditure for the previous financial year. The Directions are not intended to cover the handling of criminal prosecutions and related proceedings (see general note 4 of the Directions).
The following table lists the CDPP's legal services expenditure relating to administrative activities only:
NDIS provider ‘put himself first’ defrauding 19 people with disabilities
South Australian man Paul Tilbury defrauded the NDIA and made false claims against 19 NDIS clients on 42 occasions over a two year period between April 2017 and April 2019. The false claims totalled $404,010,58.
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NDIS provider ‘put himself first’ defrauding 19 people with disabilities
South Australian man Paul Tilbury defrauded the NDIA and made false claims against 19 NDIS clients on 42 occasions over a two year period between April 2017 and April 2019. The false claims totalled $404,010,58.
Gaol for $2.4m BAS fraudster
Kristopher Andree-Jansz was convicted and sentenced in the County Court of Victoria to four years and seven months’ imprisonment, with a non-parole period of two years and nine months, following a plea of guilty to two charges of obtaining financial advantage by deception and attempting to do the same.
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Gaol for $2.4m BAS fraudster
On 2 April 2025, Kristopher Andree-Jansz was convicted and sentenced in the County Court of Victoria to four years and seven months’ imprisonment, with a non-parole period of two years and nine months, following a plea of guilty to two charges of obtaining financial advantage by deception and attempting to do the same, contrary to sections 134.2(1) and 11.1(1) of the Criminal Code (Cth).