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Australian Government directories

  
  

Departments and agencies and their ministers

The Departments and agencies page provides an index page to the Australian Government departments, agencies and websites organised by portfolios. Each portfolio links to a portfolio detail page which lists:

  • the portfolio ministers and parliamentary secretaries, with links to their homepages;
  • the portfolio department, with a link to its homepage and its department detail page;
  • other portfolio agencies, with a link to their agency detail pages; and
  • other websites in the portfolio, with links to their homepages.

Government departments

The Government departments page provides a list of 20 Australian Government departments with links to their homepage, their contact details on the Australian Government Directory, and a link to their australia.gov.au detail page.

Their detail page provides an description of the department and links to their services, forms and key web pages indexed on australia.gov.au.

A-Z list of government sites

The A-Z list of government sites provides a single comprehensive listing of all Australian Government department and agency websites with links to their homepages.

Related

What is a portfolio?

A portfolio is a minister's area of responsibility as a member of Cabinet. As a general rule, there is one department in each portfolio.

The Governor-General appoints ministers, establishes departments of state and allocates responsibility among ministers through an Administrative Arrangements Order (AAO). 

Each government department has its own departmental website with ministers and parliamentary secretaries often having their own websites as well. Within each portfolio there are also numerous agency and program websites. 

 

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