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The commission was established in July 1933 by the Lyons government during the Great Depression to provide impartial advice on the distribution of federal government grants to the states. [2] The commission operates under the Commonwealth Grants Commission Act 1973 , and is responsible for measuring the relative fiscal capacity of each state ...
The Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) is the regulatory authority for charities and not-for-profit organisations within Australia. The Commission was established in December 2012 as part of the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission Act 2012 passed by the federal parliament, and is responsible for registering charities and non-profit organisations ...
The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) is the main statutory authority of the Australian Government responsible for medical research.It was the eighth largest research funding body in the world in 2016, [1] and NHMRC-funded research is globally recognised for its high quality. [2]
The Australian Research Council superseded the Australian Research Grants Committee, which had been providing funding to Australian universities since 1965. [5] It was formed in 1988 as a response to the Dawkins white paper, 'Higher Education: A policy statement', and was established as an independent body in 2001 under the Australian Research Council Act 2001.
However, section 96 provides the Commonwealth with the power to grant money to any state. These monetary grants are typically tied to certain terms and conditions (often legislative) that the states must adhere to in order to receive the grant. As these grants are linked to a particular purpose, they are known as 'tied grants'.
Dwellings rented from a State or Territory housing authority as a percentage of all dwellings in Australia divided geographically by statistical local area, at the 2011 census. Public housing in Australia is one part of social housing and the other is community housing. [1] Public housing is provided by departments of state governments.
The Department of Communities is a department of the Government of Western Australia.The department was formed on 1 July 2017, out of the former Department of Child Protection and Family Support, Department of Local Government and Communities, Department of Housing and the Disability Services Commission.
The Australian Competitive Grants Register (ACGR) was a centralised register that listed funding schemes that were approved by the Australian Government as being "competitive research grants" to Australian higher education providers. The ACGR was released for the last time in 2018 and is no longer updated as it has been replaced by a mechanism ...