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 industrial 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.

Categories last updated: 17 April 2013

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 Defence
5. Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
6. Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
7. Department of Finance and Deregulation
8. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
9. Department of Health and Ageing
10. Department of Human Services
11. Department of Immigration and Citizenship
12. Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education
13. Department of Infrastructure and Transport
14. Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport
15. Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism
16. Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
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 Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
6. Australian Communications and Media Authority
7. Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
8. Australian Crime Commission
9. Australian Customs and Border Protection Service
10. Australian Fisheries Management Authority
11. Australian Human Rights Commission
12. Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
13. Australian Law Reform Commission
14. Australian National Audit Office
15. Australian National Maritime Museum
16. Australian National Preventive Health Agency
17. Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority
18. Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority
19. Australian Public Service Commission
20. Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency
21. Australian Research Council
22. Australian Skills Quality Authority
23. Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority
24. Australian Taxation Office
25. Australian Trade Commission
26. Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre
27. Australian Transport Safety Bureau
28. Australian War Memorial
29. Cancer Australia
30. Clean Energy Regulator
31. Climate Change Authority
32. ComSuper
33. Defence Housing Australia  
34. Fair Work Commission
35. Family Court of Australia
36. Federal Court of Australia
37. Federal Circuit Court of Australia
38. Food Standards Australia New Zealand
39. Future Fund Management Agency
40. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
41. Independent Hospital Pricing Authority
42. Migration Review Tribunal and Refugee Review Tribunal
43. Murray-Darling Basin Authority
44. National Blood Authority
45. National Capital Authority
46. National Competition Council
47. National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
48. National Health and Medical Research Council
49. National Health Funding Body
50. National Health Performance Authority
51. National Library of Australia
52. National Museum of Australia
53. National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority
54. National Water Commission
55. Office of Parliamentary Counsel
56. Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
57. Office of the Commonwealth Ombudsman
58. Office of the Fair Work Building Industry Inspectorate
59. Office of the Fair Work Ombudsman
60. Office of the Inspector-General of Taxation
61. Private Health Insurance Ombudsman
62. Productivity Commission
63. Professional Services Review
64. Safe Work Australia
65. Telecommunications Universal Service Management Agency 
66. Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency
67. Torres Strait Regional Authority
68. Workplace Gender Equality Agency

Category C

Statutory Agencies with dual staffing powers

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

# Do not currently employ any staff under the PS Act.

Category D

Executive Agencies

1. Australian Agency for International Development
2. Bureau of Meteorology
3. CrimTrac Agency
4. Insolvency and Trustee Service Australia
5. National Archives of Australia
6. Old Parliament House
7. National Mental Health Commission

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 Enterprise 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 1999.

1. Australian Office of Financial Management (part of the Department of the Treasury)
2. Australian Renewable Energy Agency (part of the Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism)
3. Commonwealth Grants Commission (part of the Department of the Treasury)
4. Defence Materiel Organisation (part of the Department of Defence)
5. Director of National Parks (part of the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities)
6. Geoscience Australia (part of the Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism)
7. IP Australia (part of the Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education)
8. Royal Australian Mint (part of the Department of the Treasury)
9. Seafarers Safety Rehabilitation and Compensation Authority - Seacare Authority (part of Comcare)
10. Social Security Appeals Tribunal (part of the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs)