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The Department of Home Affairs is a department of the Government of Australia that is charged with responsibilities for national security, protective services, emergency management, border control, immigration, refugees, citizenship, transport security and multicultural affairs. [2]
The AGLS Metadata Standard, originally known as the Australian Government Locator Service, was created by the National Archives of Australia as a standard to describe government resources. [1] It was published for a general audience by Standards Australia as AS 5044:2002, and reissued as AS 5044-2010 on 30 June 2010. [ 2 ]
White Pages Australia is a formerly government-owned and now-privatised directory of contact information for people and business entities within Australia. Originally only in the form of a print book delivered to all households for several decades, it now also exists online.
It was formed in 2007 and absorbed the former Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. As a result of an Administrative Arrangements Order issued on 18 September 2013, the Department of Social Services was established and assumed most of the responsibilities of FaHCSIA; with indigenous affairs functions assumed by the ...
Principal entities are Australian Government entities that are defined in the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2011 as either a: Principal non-corporate Commonwealth entity - such as a cabinet department; Principal corporate Commonwealth entity - such as the CSIRO or Reserve Bank of Australia
Services Australia, formerly the Department of Human Services and before that the Department of Social Security, is an executive agency of the Australian Government, responsible for delivering a range of welfare payments, health insurance payments, child support payments and other support services to eligible Australian citizens and permanent residents. [6]
Workforce Australia is an Australian Government-funded network of organisations (private and community, and originally also government) that are contracted by the Australian Government, through the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR), to deliver employment services to unemployed job seekers on Government income support payments and employers.
The department also commissions reports and reviews, such as the review of Early Intervention Therapies for Autism Spectrum Disorders, DisabilityCare Australia and the Gender Wage gap. [9] The review was a follow up and extension of a 2006 report commissioned by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aging. [10]