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Last updated: 2 July 2008
Australian Public Service agencies
The list of APS Agencies which appears below is divided into 4 categories:
- Category A – Departments;
- Category B – Statutory Agencies with all staff employed under the Public Service Act 1999 (the PS Act);
- Category C – Statutory Agencies which have the capacity to employ staff under the PS Act as well as their own enabling legislation (dual staffing bodies);
- Category D – Executive Agencies.
A fifth category (Category E) includes bodies which employ staff under the Public Service Act 1999 and operate with some degree of independence (e.g. some have their own Certified Agreement and/or are separately identified under the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 or the Commonwealth Authorities and Companies Act 1997). However, these bodies are parts of APS Agencies rather than separate APS Agencies as defined in the PS Act.
Category A
Departments
- Attorney-General’s Department
- Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
- Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
- Department of Climate Change
- Department of Defence
- Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
- Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
- Department of Finance and Deregulation
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Department of Health and Ageing
- Department of Human Services
- Department of Immigration and Citizenship
- Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government
- Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research
- Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism
- Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
- Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
- Department of the Treasury
- Department of Veterans’ Affairs
Category B
Statutory Agencies which employ all staff under the Public Service Act 1999
- Aboriginal Hostels Limited
- Administrative Appeals Tribunal
- Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
- Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity
- Australian Communications and Media Authority
- Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
- Australian Crime Commission
- Australian Customs Service
- Australian Fair Pay Commission Secretariat
- Australian Fisheries Management Authority
- Australian Industrial Registry
- Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- Australian National Audit Office
- Australian National Maritime Museum
- Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority
- Australian Public Service Commission
- Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency
- Australian Research Council
- Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority
- Australian Taxation Office
- Australian Trade Commission
- Australian Transactions Reports and Analysis Centre
- Australian War Memorial
- Cancer Australia
- Centrelink
- ComSuper
- Defence Housing Australia
- Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency
- Family Court of Australia
- Federal Court of Australia
- Federal Magistrates Court of Australia
- Food Standards Australia New Zealand
- Future Fund Management Agency
- Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
- Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
- Migration Review Tribunal and Refugee Review Tribunal
- Medicare Australia
- Murray Darling Basin Authority
- National Blood Authority
- National Capital Authority
- National Competition Council
- National Film and Sound Archive
- National Health and Medical Research Council
- National Library of Australia
- National Museum of Australia
- National Native Title Tribunal
- National Offshore Petroleum Safety Authority
- National Water Commission
- Office of Parliamentary Counsel
- Office of the Australian Building and Construction Commissioner
- Office of the Commonwealth Ombudsman
- Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner
- Office of the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security
- Office of the Inspector-General of Taxation
- Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator
- Office of the Workplace Ombudsman
- Private Health Insurance Ombudsman
- Productivity Commission
- Professional Services Review
- Torres Strait Regional Authority
- Wheat Exports Australia
- Workplace Authority
Category C
Statutory Agencies with dual staffing powers
- Australian Bureau of Statistics
- Australian Electoral Commission
- Australian Institute of Family Studies
- Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
- Australian Securities and Investments Commission
- Comcare
- Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee
- National Environment Protection Council (NEPC) Service Corporation#
- National Transport Commission#
- Office of National Assessments
- Office of the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board#
- Office of the Australian Accounting Standards Board#
- Office of the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions
- Screen Australia
# No current staff employed under PS Act 1999
Category D
Executive Agencies
- Bureau of Meteorology
- CrimTrac Agency
- Insolvency and Trustee Service Australia
- National Archives of Australia
- Old Parliament House
Category E
Bodies with staff employed under the Public Service Act 1999 which operate with some degree of independence (e.g. some have their own certified agreement and/or are identified separately under the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 or the Commonwealth Authorities and Companies Act 1997 but are not separate APS Agencies as defined in the Public Service Act.
- Ausaid - Australian Agency for International Development (part of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade)
- Australian Office of Financial Management (part of the Department of the Treasury)
- Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (part of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry)
- Australian Valuation Office (part of the Australian Taxation Office)
- Biosecurity Australia (part of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry)
- Child Support Agency (part of the Department of Human Services)
- Comcar (part of the Department of Finance and Deregulation)
- Commonwealth Grants Commission (part of the Department of the Treasury)
- CRS Australia (part of the Department of Human Services)
- Defence Materiel Organisation (part of the Department of Defence)
- Director of National Parks (part of the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts)
- Geoscience Australia (part of the Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism)
- IP Australia (part of the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research)
- National Measurement Institute (part of the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research)
- Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination (part of the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs)
- Questacon – National Science and Technology Centre (part of the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research)
- Royal Australian Mint (part of the Department of the Treasury)
- Seafarers Safety Rehabilitation and Compensation Authority (Seacare Authority) (part of Comcare)
- Social Security Appeals Tribunal (part of the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs)
