Topic listing

The following links are to headings within Foundations of Governance. It is not intended to be a comprehensive listing of references within this site but a quick reference to topics that can be found.

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A

• A Guide on Key Elements of Ministerial Responsibility
• A workplace based on respect and valuing diversity
• Access and Equity Annual Report
• Accountability to Ministers and Parliament
• ACCOUNTABILITY
• Administrative Appeals Tribunal
• Administrative Arrangements Order
• Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act
• Age Discrimination Act  in Legislative framework
• Age Discrimination Act  in A workplace based on respect and valuing diversity
• Agency annual reports
• Agency grants
• Agency head employment related obligations under the Public Service Act, the Public Service Regulations, the Commissioner’s Directions, the Prime Minister’s Public Service Directions and the Public Service Classification Rules
• Agency head relationship with the Government and Parliament
• Agency head relationship with Ministers
• Agency head responsibilities in relation to the Workplace Relations Act
• Annual appropriations
• Annual financial statements
• Annual reporting
• Appointments
• Appropriations framework
• APS VALUES,THE
• APS Values and Code of Conduct
• APS CODE OF CONDUCT
• Archives Act
• Arrangements for Commonwealth employees not in PSS or CSS (now Superannuation (Productivity Benefit Act 1988))
• Assignment of duties
• Auditor-General
• Australian Government Budget
• The Australian Government e-Authentication Framework (AGAF) for Business
• Australian Government branding design guidelines
• Australian Government Protective Security Manual
• Australian Legal System, The
• Australian Public Service environment, The
• AUTHORISATION AND DELEGATION

B

• Best practice regulation, regulation management and review
• Budget framework
• Bullying and harassment

C

• Cabinet Handbook
• Charter of Budget Honesty and Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Outlook
• Charter of Public Service in a Culturally Diverse Society, The
• Chief Executive’s Instructions (CEIs)
• Choice of superannuation funds for new employees
• Common law
• Commonwealth Authorities and Companies Act
• Commonwealth Disability Strategy in A workplace based on respect and diversity
• Commonwealth Disability Strategy, The in Legislative framework
• Commonwealth fraud control guidelines
• Commonwealth Protective Security Manual (now Australian Government Protective Security Manual)
• Commonwealth Superannuation Scheme
• Commonwealth, state and territory laws
• Consideration of estimates by Senate legislation committees
• Consolidated financial statements for the Australian Government
• Constitution, The
• CONSTITUTIONAL, LEGAL AND GOVERNMENT FRAMEWORK, THE
• Copyright Act
• Crimes Act
• Criminal Code Act
• Criminal law

D

• Delegations in agency head employment related obligations under the Public Service Act...
• Delegations in Financial legislation
• Departmental and Agency grants
• Disability Discrimination Act in Legislative framework
• Disability Discrimination Act in A workplace based on respect and valuing diversity
• Disclosure of official information
• DOWNLOAD Foundations of Governance in the Australian Public Service
• Drafter’s Guide (for Cabinet documents), The

E

• Electronic Transactions Act
• EMPLOYMENT FRAMEWORK
• Energy Efficiency and Environment Reporting
• Enforcement and Prosecution
• Engagement of APS employees
• Engagement of Trainees
• Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act
• ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
• Equal Employment Opportunity (Commonwealth Authorities) Act
• Evidence Act
• Executive power
• Express power to delegate
• Extension of engagement of APS employee engaged for a specified term

F

• Federal Executive Council Handbook
• Final Budget Outcome
• Finance circulars
• Financial Management and Accountability Act in Financial management and budget frameworks
• Financial Management and Accountability Act in Protection against crime
• Financial Management and Accountability Orders
• Financial Management and Accountability Regulations
• FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET FRAMEWORKS
• Financial management compliance
• Financial management legislation
• Financial management policies (including procurement framework)
• Finance Minister's Orders
• Financial reporting framework
• Financial/resource management aspects of an administrative re-arrangement
• Foreword
• Freedom of Information Act in Management and use of Government information
• Freedom of Information Act in Review of Government decision making

G

• Gatekeeper
• Governance
• Government online standards and e-Government
• Guidance on Caretaker Conventions
• Guidance on Government and Parliamentary matters
• Guide on Key Elements of Ministerial Responsibility, A
• Guidelines for Presentation of Government Documents, Ministerial Statements and Government Responses to the Parliament

H

• Heads of Mission
• Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act in Legislative framework
• Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act in A workplace based on respect and valuing diversity
• Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission

I

• Implied power to authorise
• Insurance–Comcover
• INTRODUCTION

J

• Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit
• Judicial power
• Judicial review under administrative law

L

• Lands Acquisition Act 1989
• Leadership
• Legal Services Directions
• Legal Services Purchasing
• Legislation Handbook
• Legislative framework
• Legislative Instruments Act
• Legislative power
• Locally engaged employees
• Long Service Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Act and Related Regulations in Other agency head employment-related responsibilities
• Long Service Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1973 in A workplace based on respect and valuing diversity

M

• Machinery of Government changes
• MANAGEMENT AND USE OF GOVERNMENT INFORMATION
• Management of Commonwealth IT-related intellectual property
• Management of Legal Services – Chief Executive Responsibilities
• Maternity Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Act and other parental leave provisions in Other agency head employment-related responsibilities
• Maternity Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1973 and other parental leave provisions in A workplace based on respect and valuing diversity
• Merit-based decision making
• Merit in employment and reasonable opportunity to apply for APS employment
• Merit Protection Commissioner
• Merits review
• Monthly financial statements for the Australian Government
• Movement of employees as a result of an administrative re-arrangement

N

• NATIVE TITLE AND DEALING WITH LAND

O

• Occupational, Health and Safety (Commonwealth Employment) Act
• Office of Legal Services Coordination
• Ombudsman
• Online security
• Other agency head employment-related responsibilities
• Other avenues of review of Commonwealth decisions
• Other environmental protection and reporting requirements

P

• Parliamentary committees
• Parliamentary privilege
• Preparing legislation and legislative instruments
• Prime Minister’s Public Service Directions – mandatory leave without pay
• Privacy Act in Management and use of Government information
• Privacy Act in Review of Government decision-making
• Privacy issues in Australian Government internet sites
• Procurement Framework
• Promotion of ongoing APS employees
• PROTECTION OF THE COMMONWEALTH AGAINST CRIME
• Public Service Act in Legislative framework
• Public Service Act in A workplace based on respect and valuing diversity
• Public Service Classification Rules
• Public Sector Superannuation Accumulation Plan
• Public Sector Superannuation Scheme

R

• Racial Discrimination Act in Legislative framework
• Racial Discrimination Act in A workplace based on respect and valuing diversity
• Reasonable opportunity to apply
• Redundancy benefit recipients
• Re-engagement
• Relationships with the Parliament
• Relevant agency receipts
• Remuneration and other terms and conditions of employment
• Remuneration Tribunal
• Reporting under the Financial Management and Accountability Act
• RESPECTING THE DIVERSITY OF THE AUSTRALIAN COMMUNITY IN PROVIDING SERVICES
• Review by the courts and tribunals
• Review of actions
• REVIEW OF GOVERNMENT DECISION MAKING
• Rights and responsibilities of witnesses before parliamentary committees
• Risk management and i nsurance–Comcover
• Rule of law

S

• Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act
• Same-sex couples policy in Respecting diversity...
• Same-sex couples policy in Employment framework
• Section 32 of the FMA Act
• SECURITY
• Security and character checking of employees
• Senate Order – Agency Advertising and Public Information Projects
• Senate Order on departmental and agency contracts (4 December 2003)
• Senate Order—Departmental and Agency grants
• Senate Order—Government appointments
• Senate Order – Indexed Lists of Departmental and agency files
• Senate Order – Senate and Senate Committees - Claims of Commercial Confidentiality
• Senior Executive Service employment
• Service charters
• Sex Discrimination Act in Legislative framework
• Sex Discrimination Act in A workplace based on respect and valuing diversity
• Special Accounts
• Special appropriations in Machinery of Government changes
• Special appropriations in Financial policy
• Special provisions consistent with Commonwealth anti-discrimination law
• State of the Service Report
• Superannuation
• Superannuation arrangements in Machinery of Government changes
• Superannuation (Productivity Benefit Act 1988)

T

• Termination of employment
• THE APS VALUES
• The Australian legal system
• The Charter of Public Service in a Culturally Diverse Society
• The Commonwealth Disability Strategy
• The Constitution
• THE CONSTITUTIONAL, LEGAL AND GOVERNMENT FRAMEWORK
• The Drafter’s Guide (for Cabinet documents)
• Transfer of functions between FMA Act agencies and CAC bodies
• Transfer of assets and liabilities between FMA Act Agencies
• Transfer of Special Accounts

V

• Voluntary moves between agencies

W

• WHISTLEBLOWING
• Whole of Government
• Working with the Office of Parliamentary Counsel (OPC) – A Guide for Clients
• Workplace Authority
• (A) Workplace based on respect and valuing diversity
• Workplace Authority
• Workplace Diversity
• Workplace relations aspects of administrative re-arrangements