Last updated: January 2019
The list of Australian Public Service (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. However, these bodies are parts of APS agencies rather than separate APS agencies as defined in the PS Act.
Category A
Departments
- Attorney-General's Department
- Department of Agriculture and Water Resources
- Department of Communications and the Arts
- Department of Defence
- Department of Education and Training
- Department of Jobs and Small Business
- Department of Finance
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Department of Health
- Department of Human Services
- Department of Home Affairs
- Department of Industry, Innovation and Science
- Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities
- Department of Social Services
- Department of the Environment and Energy
- Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
- Department of the Treasury
- Department of Veterans' Affairs
Category B
Statutory Agencies which employ all staff under the Public Service Act 1999
- Aboriginal Hostels Limited
- Administrative Appeals Tribunal
- Asbestos Safety and Eradication Agency
- Australian Aged Care Quality Agency
- Australian Building and Construction Commission
- Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
- Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity
- Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
- Australian Communications and Media Authority
- Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
- Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission
- Australian Fisheries Management Authority
- Australian Human Rights Commission
- Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- Australian Law Reform Commission
- Australian National Audit Office
- Australian National Maritime Museum
- Australian National Preventive Health Agency
- Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority (Organ and Tissue Authority)
- Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority
- Australian Public Service Commission
- Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency
- Australian Research Council
- Australian Skills Quality Authority
- Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority
- Australian Taxation Office
- Australian Trade and Investment Commission
- Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre
- Australian Transport Safety Bureau
- Australian War Memorial
- Cancer Australia
- Clean Energy Regulator
- Climate Change Authority
- Defence Housing Australia
- Fair Work Commission
- Federal Court Statutory Agency
- Food Standards Australia New Zealand
- Future Fund Management Agency
- Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
- Independent Hospital Pricing Authority
- Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority
- Murray-Darling Basin Authority
- National Blood Authority
- National Capital Authority
- National Competition Council
- National Disability Insurance Agency
- National Disability Insurance Scheme Quality and Safeguards Commission
- National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
- National Health and Medical Research Council
- National Health Funding Body
- National Library of Australia
- National Museum of Australia
- National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority
- National Portrait Gallery of Australia
- Office of Parliamentary Counsel
- Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
- Office of the Commonwealth Ombudsman
- Office of the Fair Work Ombudsman
- Office of the Inspector-General of Taxation
- Old Parliament House
- Productivity Commission
- Professional Services Review
- Safe Work Australia
- Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency
- Torres Strait Regional Authority
- Workplace Gender Equality Agency
Category C
Statutory Agencies with dual staffing powers
- Australian Bureau of Statistics
- Australian Digital Health Agency
- Australian Electoral Commission
- Australian Institute of Criminology
- Australian Institute of Family Studies
- Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
- Australian Securities and Investments Commission
- Comcare
- Infrastructure Australia
- National Transport Commission#
- Office of National Assessments
- Office of the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board#
- Office of the Australian Accounting Standards Board#
- Office of the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions
- Office of the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security
- Screen Australia
# Do not currently employ any staff under the PS Act.
Category D
Executive Agencies
- Australian Financial Security Authority
- Bureau of Meteorology
- Digital Transformation Agency
- Infrastructure and Project Financing Agency
- National Archives of Australia
- National Mental Health Commission
Category E
Bodies with staff employed under the PS Act which operate with some degree of independence
(For example, some have their own enterprise agreement and/or are identified separately but are NOT separate APS agencies as defined in the PS Act.)
- Australian Office of Financial Management (part of the Department of the Treasury)
- Australian Renewable Energy Agency (part of the Department of Environment and Energy)
- Commonwealth Grants Commission (part of the Department of the Treasury)
- Director of National Parks (part of the Department of the Environment and Energy)
- Geoscience Australia (part of the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science)
- IP Australia (part of the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science)
- Royal Australian Mint (part of the Department of the Treasury)
- Seafarers Safety Rehabilitation and Compensation Authority - Seacare Authority (part of Comcare)