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Last updated: 1 February 2012
Australian Public Service (APS) agencies
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.
Category A
Departments
- Attorney-General’s Department
- Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
- Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
- Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency
- Department of Defence
- Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
- Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
- Department of Finance and Deregulation
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Department of Health and Ageing
- Department of Human Services
- Department of Immigration and Citizenship
- Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education
- Department of Infrastructure and Transport
- Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport
- Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism
- Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
- 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
- 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 Crime Commission
- Australian Customs and Border Protection Service
- 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
- 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 Commission
- Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre
- Australian Transport Safety Bureau
- Australian War Memorial
- Cancer Australia
- ComSuper
- Defence Housing Australia
- Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency
- Fair Work Australia
- Family Court of Australia
- Federal Court of Australia
- Federal Magistrates Court of Australia
- Food Standards Australia New Zealand
- Future Fund Management Agency
- Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
- Independent Hospital Pricing Authority
- Migration Review Tribunal and Refugee Review Tribunal
- Murray-Darling Basin Authority
- National Blood Authority
- National Capital Authority
- National Competition Council
- National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
- National Health and Medical Research Council
- National Health Performance Authority
- National Library of Australia
- National Museum of Australia
- National Native Title Tribunal
- National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority
- National Water Commission
- Office of Parliamentary Counsel
- Office of the Australian Building and Construction Commissioner
- Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
- Office of the Commonwealth Ombudsman
- Office of the Fair Work Ombudsman
- Office of the Inspector-General of Taxation
- Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator
- Private Health Insurance Ombudsman
- Productivity Commission
- Professional Services Review
- Safe Work Australia
- Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency
- Torres Strait Regional Authority
- Wheat Exports Australia
Category C
Statutory Agencies with dual staffing powers
- Australian Bureau of Statistics
- Australian Electoral Commission
- Australian Institute of Criminology
- Australian Institute of Family Studies
- Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
- Australian Securities and Investments Commission
- Comcare
- Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee
- National Environment Protection Council (NEPC) Service Corporation#
- 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 Agency for International Development
- Bureau of Meteorology
- CrimTrac Agency
- Insolvency and Trustee Service Australia
- National Archives of Australia
- Old Parliament House
- 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.
- Australian Office of Financial Management (part of the Department of the Treasury)
- Comcar (part of the Department of Finance and Deregulation)
- Commonwealth Grants Commission (part of the Department of the Treasury)
- Defence Materiel Organisation (part of the Department of Defence)
- Director of National Parks (part of the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities)
- Geoscience Australia (part of the Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism)
- IP Australia (part of the Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education)
- Royal Australian Mint (part of the Department of the Treasury)
- Seafarers Safety Rehabilitation and Compensation Authority - Seacare Authority (part of Comcare)
- Social Security Appeals Tribunal (part of the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs)
