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Department Of Secondary Industry
The Department of Secondary Industry was an Government of Australia, Australian government department that existed between December 1972 and June 1974 under the Whitlam government. History The Department had previously been located inside the Department of Trade and Industry (Australia), Department of Trade and Industry as the Office of Secondary Industry. In July 1972 the Australian Government approved the creation of 25 new positions in the Office of Secondary Industry, an opportunity to set up the nucleus for a full-scale Department of Secondary Industry, which was established in December 1972. The Department was abolished in June 1974 when it was merged with the Department of Supply to form the Department of Manufacturing Industry. Scope Information about the department's functions and government funding allocation could be found in the Machinery of government#Australian Government Administrative Arrangement Orders, Administrative Arrangements Orders, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Of Shipping And Transport
The Department of Shipping and Transport was an Australian government department that existed between May 1951 and December 1972. Scope Information about the department's functions and/or government funding allocation could be found in the Administrative Arrangements Orders, the annual Portfolio Budget Statements and in the Department's annual reports. According to the Administrative Arrangements Order (AAO) made on 21 June 1951, the Department dealt with: *Shipping, including the best utilization of the Australian Coastal Fleet, the chartering of ships, the operation of Commonwealth-owned and chartered ships. *Shipbuilding and the repair and maintenance of ships (other than naval vessels). *Movement of Commonwealth explosives. *Provision of facilities at Australian ports for handling Commonwealth explosives. *Commonwealth Handling Equipment Pool. *Control and maintenance of coastal lights and other aids to navigation on the sea routes around the Austra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Of Trade And Industry (Australia)
The Department of Trade and Industry was an Australian government department that existed between December 1963 and December 1972. Scope Information about the department's functions and/or government funding allocation could be found in the Administrative Arrangements Orders, the annual Portfolio Budget Statements and in the Department's annual reports. The 1964 Government Directory, reproduced by the National Archives of Australia, stated that the Department dealt with: *Trade and Commerce with other countries *Activities arising from the international trade policies of Australia and other countries. Particular aspects covered include the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, quantitative restrictions, subsidies, restrictive business and customs practice, exchange arrangements, export incentives and overseas shipping policies; *Negotiate and administer trade agreements and treaties; *Deal with problems relating to the commodity policies of other countries which af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Of Overseas Trade (Australia)
The Department of Overseas Trade was an Australian government The Australian Government, also known as the Commonwealth Government, is the national government of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy. Like other Westminster-style systems of government, the Australian Governmen ... department that existed between December 1972 and December 1977. History The Department was one of several new Departments established by the Whitlam government, a wide restructuring that revealed some of the new government's program. Scope Information about the department's functions and/or government funding allocation could be found in the Administrative Arrangements Orders, the annual Portfolio Budget Statements and in the Department's annual reports. At the department's creation it was responsible for: *Trade and Commerce with other countries, including trade promotion. *Organising trade fairs, exhibitions and field days overseas to promote Austr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Of Manufacturing Industry
The Department of Manufacturing Industry was an Australian government department that existed between June 1974 and December 1975. History When the Department of Manufacturing Industry was created in 1977, it was an amalgamation of the previous Department of Secondary Industry and the residual parts of the Department of Supply not incorporated in the amalgamated Department of Defence. The department was abolished in 1975 and replaced with the Department of Administrative Services. Scope Information about the department's functions and/or government funding allocation could be found in the Administrative Arrangements Orders, the annual Portfolio Budget Statements and in the Department's annual reports. At its creation, the Department was responsible for the following: *Secondary industry, including - **the efficiency and development of industries *Research *Defence research and development, including support of space research programs of international organisat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Of Australia
The Australian Government, also known as the Commonwealth Government, is the national government of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy. Like other Westminster-style systems of government, the Australian Government is made up of three branches: the executive (the prime minister, the ministers, and government departments), the legislative (the Parliament of Australia), and the judicial. The legislative branch, the federal Parliament, is made up of two chambers: the House of Representatives (lower house) and Senate (upper house). The House of Representatives has 151 members, each representing an individual electoral district of about 165,000 people. The Senate has 76 members: twelve from each of the six states and two each from Australia's internal territories, the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory. The Australian monarch, currently King Charles III, is represented by the governor-general. The Australian Government in its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Cairns
James Ford Cairns (4 October 191412 October 2003) was an Australian politician who was prominent in the Labor movement through the 1960s and 1970s, and was briefly Treasurer and Deputy Prime Minister in the Whitlam government. He is best remembered as a leader of the movement against Australian involvement in the Vietnam War, for his affair with Junie Morosi and for his later renunciation of conventional politics. He was also an economist, and a prolific writer on economic and social issues, many of them self-published and self-marketed at stalls he ran across Australia after his retirement. Early days James Ford Cairns was born in Carlton, then a working-class suburb of Melbourne, the son of a clerk. He grew up on a dairy farm north of Sunbury. His father went to the First World War as a lieutenant in the Australian Imperial Forces, but became disillusioned with the war and lost his respect for Britain. He did not return to Australia. Following the war he essentially d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kep Enderby
Keppel Earl Enderby (25 June 1926 – 7 January 2015) was an Australian politician and judge. Enderby was a member of the House of Representatives, representing the Australian Labor Party between 1970 and 1975 and became a senior cabinet minister in the Gough Whitlam government. After politics, he was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Early years Enderby was born in Dubbo, New South Wales and educated at Dubbo High School. His parents were milk-bar proprietors. He was a trainee pilot in the Royal Australian Air Force in 1944 and 1945. He studied law at the University of Sydney from 1946 to 1950 and was admitted to the New South Wales bar in 1950. He was a successful amateur golfer. He won the 1946 New South Wales Amateur Championship beating defending champion Alan Waterson in the semi-final and John Allerton in the final. He represented New South Wales in the Australian Men's Interstate Teams Matches in 1946, 1947, 1948 and 1949. From 1950 to 1954, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug McKay (public Servant)
Douglas Henry McKay (5 September 1923 – 7 July 2012) was a senior Australian public servant. Life and career Doug McKay was born in North Sydney on 5 September 1923, growing up around Tumbarumba then Narrandera in southern New South Wales. In 1971, McKay was appointed Secretary of the Department of Trade and Industry (Australia) The Department of Trade and Industry was an Australian government department that existed between December 1963 and December 1972. Scope Information about the department's functions and/or government funding allocation could be found .... Between December 1972 and January 1973, McKay was Acting Secretary of the Department of Tourism and Recreation as well as the Department of Secondary Industry. while serving as permanent head of trade department (which had since become the Department of Overseas Trade). In 1978, he was appointed Secretary of the Department of Primary Industry. Before retiring in 1980, McKay went on ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Pryor
Frank Commons Pryor (1919-1985) was a senior Australia public servant. Life and career Pryor graduated with first class honours in Philosophy from the University of Sydney, having been a member of the Philosophy Club there in 1939. Within a year of graduation, Pryor began his Australian Public Service career in the Department of the Treasury. In November 1971, Pryor resigned from the Treasury after John Stone was appointed a Deputy Secretary in the Department. In December 1971 Pryor returned to the Australian Public Service as director of the Office of Secondary Industry within the Department of Trade and Industry. In July 1972 the Australian Government approved the creation of 25 new positions in the Office of Secondary Industry, giving Pryor the opportunity to set up the nucleus for a full-scale Department of Secondary Industry. In April 1973 the then Minister for Secondary Industry, Jim Cairns James Ford Cairns (4 October 191412 October 2003) was an Australian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parkes, Australian Capital Territory
Parkes is an inner southern suburb of the Canberra Central district of Canberra, located within the Australian Capital Territory of Australia. Located south-east of the Canberra central business district, Parkes contains the Parliamentary Triangle and many of the national monuments of Australia's capital city. Parkes is named in honor of Sir Henry Parkes, a Federalist, legislator and one of the founders of the Australian Constitution. Streets in Parkes are named after monarchs and constitutional references. Parkes contains many of Canberra's large institutions and contains no residential area. Population At the , Parkes had no population. At the , it had five people, at the , it had no people, at the it had four people and at the it had 27 people. Notable places * Aboriginal Tent Embassy * Commonwealth Park * Commonwealth Place *East Block * Kings Park *Central Basin of Lake Burley Griffin * High Court of Australia * National Carillon * National Gallery of Australi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canberra
Canberra ( ) is the capital city of Australia. Founded following the federation of the colonies of Australia as the seat of government for the new nation, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory at the northern tip of the Australian Alps, the country's highest mountain range. As of June 2021, Canberra's estimated population was 453,558. The area chosen for the capital had been inhabited by Indigenous Australians for up to 21,000 years, with the principal group being the Ngunnawal people. European settlement commenced in the first half of the 19th century, as evidenced by surviving landmarks such as St John's Anglican Church and Blundells Cottage. On 1 January 1901, federation of the colonies of Australia was achieved. Following a long dispute over whether Sydney or Melbourne should be the national capital, a compromise was reached: the new capital would be b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
