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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.
Items in UPPERCASE are links to the beginning of sections within Foundations of Governance.
A
- A Guide on Key Elements of Ministerial Responsibility
- A Guide to Regulation
- 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 banking
- 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 Ministers
- Agency head responsibilities in relation to the Workplace Relations Act
- Annual appropriations
- Annual financial statements
- Annual reporting
- 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
- AUTHORISATION AND DELEGATION
B
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
- 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 legislation
- Financial management policies (including procurement framework)
- Finance Minister's Orders
- Financial reporting framework
- Financial/resource management aspects of an administrative re-arrangement
- Freedom of Information Act in Management and use of Government information
- Freedom of Information Act in Review of Government decision making
G
- Gatekeeper
- Government online standards and e-Government
- Guidance on Caretaker Conventions
- Guidance on Government and Parliamentary matters
- Guide on Key Elements of Ministerial Responsibility, A
- Guide to Regulation, 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
J
- Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit
- Judicial power
- Judicial review under administrative law
L
- Lands Acquisition Act 1989
- 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
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
- 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
- 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 – 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
