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[6] [7] The Order formed or re-confirmed government departments, as follows: The Department of Agriculture replacing the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry; The Attorney-General's Department, assuming the arts functions previously managed by the Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport
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.
All APS vacancies for ongoing and non-ongoing jobs for more than 12 months are notified in the APS Employment Gazette, a weekly electronic publication. [83] Public service wages were decentralised in 1997, allowing individual APS agencies to negotiate their own pay deals. [ 84 ]
Employment National was an Australian Government organisation tasked with assisting the unemployed receiving Newstart Allowance into employment. It was created as "Employment Assistance Australia" (EAA) by the Keating government's Employment Services Act 1994.
On 20 December 2017 the department was dissolved and its functions assumed by the newly formed Department of Jobs and Small Business. [2] The head of the department was the Secretary of the Department of Employment, Kerri Hartland, [4] who reported to the Minister for Employment, Senator the Hon. Michaelia Cash. [7]
The Australian Department of Jobs and Small Business was a department of the Government of Australia charged with the responsibility for employment, job services and the labour market, workplace relations, small business, and deregulation.
The Australian Department of Education, Skills and Employment (DESE) was a department of the Government of Australia, existing between 1 February 2020 to 1 July 2022 from a merger of the Department of Education (2019–2020) and Department of Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business.
The name of the government in the Constitution of Australia is the "Government of the Commonwealth". [15] This was the name used in many early federal government publications. [16] However, in 1965 Robert Menzies indicated his preference for the name "Australian Government" in order to prevent confusion with the new Commonwealth of Nations. [17]