Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The department develops and implements social policy. The head of the department is the Secretary of the Department of Social Services, currently Michael Lye, [3] who reports to the Minister for Social Services. The head office of the department is located in the Australian Capital Territory suburb of Greenway.
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]
The Department was an Australian Public Service department, staffed by officials who were responsible to the Minister. [ 1 ] The Secretary of the Department was David Rosalky, until 2001 [ 1 ] and then subsequently Mark Sullivan, [ 4 ] until 2004 and then Jeff Harmer.
Peter Shergold (right) in his capacity as Secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet; with then Prime Minister John Howard at a 2005 meeting in the United States. In Australia, a departmental secretary is the most senior public servant of an Australian Government or state government department. They are typically responsible ...
Vice Admiral Raymond James Griggs, AO, CSC (born July 1961) is a former Australian senior public servant and a senior officer in the Royal Australian Navy Reserve.He served as Chief of Navy from June 2011 to June 2014, [1] before being appointed Vice Chief of the Defence Force until his transfer to the reserve in July 2018.
The Department of Social Security (the DSS) was a government department in Australia, which administered the Social Security system between 1972 and 1998. [3] The department was one of several new departments established by the Whitlam government and was managed by the Minister for Social Security .
The Minister for Social Services is the Australian federal government minister who oversees Australian Government social services, including mental health, families and children's policy, and support for carers and people with disabilities, and seniors. [1]
The Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (also known as FaCSIA) was an Australian government department that existed between January 2006 and December 2007. The department which preceded the Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs was the Department of Family and Community Services (1998 ...