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Last updated: 12 February 2009

Australian Public Service agencies

The list of APS Agencies which appears below is divided into 4 categories:

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 Collective 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

  1. Attorney-General’s Department
  2. Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
  3. Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
  4. Department of Climate Change
  5. Department of Defence
  6. Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
  7. Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
  8. Department of Finance and Deregulation
  9. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
  10. Department of Health and Ageing
  11. Department of Human Services
  12. Department of Immigration and Citizenship
  13. Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government
  14. Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research
  15. Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism
  16. Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
  17. Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
  18. Department of the Treasury
  19. Department of Veterans’ Affairs

Category B

Statutory Agencies which employ all staff under the Public Service Act 1999

  1. Aboriginal Hostels Limited
  2. Administrative Appeals Tribunal
  3. Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
  4. Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity
  5. Australian Communications and Media Authority
  6. Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
  7. Australian Crime Commission
  8. Australian Customs Service
  9. Australian Fair Pay Commission Secretariat
  10. Australian Fisheries Management Authority
  11. Australian Industrial Registry
  12. Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  13. Australian National Audit Office
  14. Australian National Maritime Museum
  15. Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority
  16. Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority
  17. Australian Public Service Commission
  18. Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency
  19. Australian Research Council
  20. Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority
  21. Australian Taxation Office
  22. Australian Trade Commission
  23. Australian Transactions Reports and Analysis Centre
  24. Australian War Memorial
  25. Cancer Australia
  26. Centrelink
  27. ComSuper
  28. Defence Housing Australia
  29. Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency
  30. Family Court of Australia
  31. Federal Court of Australia
  32. Federal Magistrates Court of Australia
  33. Food Standards Australia New Zealand
  34. Future Fund Management Agency
  35. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
  36. Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
  37. Migration Review Tribunal and Refugee Review Tribunal
  38. Medicare Australia
  39. Murray Darling Basin Authority
  40. National Blood Authority
  41. National Capital Authority
  42. National Competition Council
  43. National Film and Sound Archive
  44. National Health and Medical Research Council
  45. National Library of Australia
  46. National Museum of Australia
  47. National Native Title Tribunal
  48. National Offshore Petroleum Safety Authority
  49. National Water Commission
  50. Office of Parliamentary Counsel
  51. Office of the Australian Building and Construction Commissioner
  52. Office of the Commonwealth Ombudsman
  53. Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner
  54. Office of the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security
  55. Office of the Inspector-General of Taxation
  56. Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator
  57. Office of the Workplace Ombudsman
  58. Private Health Insurance Ombudsman
  59. Productivity Commission
  60. Professional Services Review
  61. Torres Strait Regional Authority
  62. Wheat Exports Australia
  63. Workplace Authority

Category C

Statutory Agencies with dual staffing powers

  1. Australian Bureau of Statistics
  2. Australian Electoral Commission
  3. Australian Institute of Family Studies
  4. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
  5. Australian Securities and Investments Commission
  6. Comcare
  7. Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee
  8. National Environment Protection Council (NEPC) Service Corporation#
  9. National Transport Commission#
  10. Office of National Assessments
  11. Office of the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board#
  12. Office of the Australian Accounting Standards Board#
  13. Office of the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions
  14. Screen Australia

# No current staff employed under PS Act 1999

Category D

Executive Agencies

  1. Bureau of Meteorology
  2. CrimTrac Agency
  3. Insolvency and Trustee Service Australia
  4. National Archives of Australia
  5. 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 Collective 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.

  1. Ausaid - Australian Agency for International Development (part of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade)
  2. Australian Office of Financial Management (part of the Department of the Treasury)
  3. Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (part of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry)
  4. Australian Valuation Office (part of the Australian Taxation Office)
  5. Biosecurity Australia (part of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry)
  6. Child Support Agency (part of the Department of Human Services)
  7. Comcar (part of the Department of Finance and Deregulation)
  8. Commonwealth Grants Commission (part of the Department of the Treasury)
  9. CRS Australia (part of the Department of Human Services)
  10. Defence Materiel Organisation (part of the Department of Defence)
  11. Director of National Parks (part of the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts)
  12. Geoscience Australia (part of the Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism)
  13. IP Australia (part of the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research)
  14. National Measurement Institute (part of the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research)
  15. Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination (part of the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs)
  16. Questacon – National Science and Technology Centre (part of the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research)
  17. Royal Australian Mint (part of the Department of the Treasury)
  18. Seafarers Safety Rehabilitation and Compensation Authority - Seacare Authority (part of Comcare)
  19. Social Security Appeals Tribunal (part of the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs)