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Glossary

ABS
Australian Bureau of Statistics

Act
Public Service Act 1999

ACT
Australian Capital Territory

AHL
Aboriginal Hostels Limited

AIATSIS
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

APS
Australian Public Service

APSED
Australian Public Service Employment Database

ARIA
Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia

ATO
Australian Taxation Office

ATSIS
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Services

CEO
Chief executive officer

CLC
Corporate Leadership Council

Code of Conduct
APS Code of Conduct (s.13 of the Public Service Act 1999)

Commission
Australian Public Service Commission

DEH
Department of the Environment and Heritage

DEST
Department of Education, Science and Training

DEWR
Department of Employment and Workplace Relations

DFAT
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

DIMIA
Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs

DOTARS
Department of Transport and Regional Services

EL
Executive Level

FaCS
Department of Family and Community Services

FaCSIA
Following changes to the Administrative Arrangements Order on 27 January 2006, responsibility for Indigenous Affairs passed to the new Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaCSIA), formerly the Department of Family and Community Services (FaCS)

Health
Department of Health and Ageing

HR
Human Resources

IAPSEN
Indigenous APS Employees’ Network

ICCs
Indigenous Coordination Centres

IT
Information technology

MAC
Management Advisory Committee

NAIDOC
National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee

NICP
National Indigenous Cadetship Project

OIPC
Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination

RRMA
Rural, Remote and Metropolitan Area classification system

SA
South Australia

SES
Senior Executive Service

SLAs
Statistical Local Areas

Values
APS Values (s.10(1) of the Public Service Act 1999)

WA
Western Australia