Departments of the Australian Government are the principles units of the Commonwealth of Australia's executive branch. This list of Australian government entities is of Australian Ministers, government departments, bureaus and commissions, authorities, corporations and other entities, which are grouped into a number of areas of portfolio responsibility. Each portfolio is led by one or more government ministers who are members of the Parliament of Australia, appointed by the Governor-General of Australia on the advice of the Prime Minister.[1]

As of July 2020, the agencies are principally grouped into 14 principal departments,[2][3] each led by a secretary, director-general, or similarly-titled executive officer and comprising a number of portfolios covering specific policy areas across the department and allocated statutory authorities, trading enterprises, boards, councils and other public bodies. Agencies have varying levels of operational autonomy, and deliver one or more of frontline public services, administrative functions and law enforcement. Some are structured as for-profit corporations. Where there are multiple portfolios within a department, the Secretary may be accountable to a number of ministers.

Executive edit

Public Service edit

The Australian Public Service (APS) is the federal civil service responsible for the public administration and public policy for the Commonwealth of Australia and its various agencies and associated entities. The APS is regulated by the Public Service Act 1999 which establishes a code of conduct for public service employees. The organisational management of the APS is managed by the Australian Public Service Commission, a statutory agency.

Central agencies edit

Logo Department Established Portrait Minister(s) responsible Department Secretary Agencies and associated entities
Prime Minister and Cabinet 1 February 2020   Anthony Albanese
Prime Minister of Australia
Glyn Davis AC
TBD
Minister for the Public Service
Treasury 1 January 1901   Jim Chalmers
Treasurer of Australia
Steven Kennedy PSM
TBD
Assistant Treasurer
Finance 18 September 2013 (current)
7 December 1976 (historic)
  Katy Gallagher
Minister for Finance
Attorney-General
Rosemary Huxtable PSM
  1. ^ "Infosheet 20 - The Australian system of government". About Parliament: House of Representatives. Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
  2. ^ "Administrative Arrangements Order made on 5 December 2019 with effect from 1 February 2020". Australian Government. Archived from the original on 3 February 2020. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
  3. ^ "Scott Morrison to sack top bureaucrats and dismantle departments in wide-ranging public sector overhaul". ABC News. 6 December 2019. Retrieved 14 February 2020.