Government in South Australia is delivered by a number of agencies, grouped under areas of portfolio responsibility. Each portfolio is led by a
government minister
A minister is a politician who heads a ministry, making and implementing decisions on policies in conjunction with the other ministers. In some jurisdictions the head of government is also a minister and is designated the ‘prime minister’, â ...
who is a member of the
Parliament of South Australia
The Parliament of South Australia is the bicameral legislature of the Australian state of South Australia. It consists of the 47-seat House of Assembly ( lower house) and the 22-seat Legislative Council (upper house). General elections are ...
, appointed by the
Governor
A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political ...
as the representative of the
Crown.
The agencies are principally grouped around departments, each led by a
secretary
A secretary, administrative professional, administrative assistant, executive assistant, administrative officer, administrative support specialist, clerk, military assistant, management assistant, office secretary, or personal assistant is a w ...
,
director-general
A director general or director-general (plural: ''directors general'', ''directors-general'', ''director generals'' or ''director-generals''
) or general director is a senior executive officer, often the chief executive officer, within a government ...
or similarly title
executive officer
An executive officer is a person who is principally responsible for leading all or part of an organization, although the exact nature of the role varies depending on the organization. In many militaries and police forces, an executive officer, o ...
and comprising a number of portfolios covering specific policy areas across the department and allocated statutory authorities, trading enterprises, boards, councils and other public bodies.
Agencies have varying levels of operational autonomy, and deliver one or more of frontline public services, administrative functions and law enforcement. Some are structured as for-profit corporations. Where there are multiple portfolios within a department, directors-general may be accountable to a number of ministers.
All agencies are identifiable by their corporate logo, which features in agency advertising, publications and correspondence, pictured right.
A list of articles on South Australian government agencies sorted alphabetically is available at
Government agencies of South Australia
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state.
In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a ...
. The South Australian government maintains a list of agencies and their contact details at its website.
Attorney-General's Department
The South Australian Attorney-General's Department (AGD) brings together a diverse group of functions across justice, rights protection and public safety on behalf of the community. Agencies include:
*Office of the Chief Executive
*Finance, People and Performance
*Fines Enforcement and Recovery Unit
*Legal, Legislative and Rights Protection Services (LLRPS) Division
**Legal Services
***The Crown Solicitor's Office
***The Solicitor-General
***The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
***The Office of the Parliamentary Counsel
***Legislative Services
***Library
**Rights Protection and Social Justice
***The Office of the Public Advocate
***The Office of the Commissioner for Equal Opportunity
***The Office of the Commissioner for Victims’ Rights
***The Office of the Public Trustee
***The Office of the Ombudsman
***The Office of the Police Ombudsman (OPO)
**South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (SACAT)
**South Australian Employment Tribunal (SAET)
**The
Industrial Relations Court and Commission
**The South Australian Health Practitioners Tribunal
**Forensic Science SA (FSSA)
*Projects and Technology
** Office of Crime Statistics and Research (OCSAR)
*Safework SA
*Consumer and Business Services
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State Records of South Australia
State Records of South Australia (SRSA) is the archives and records management authority for the Government of South Australia. It is responsible for storing, managing, protecting and providing access to the official records of the South Australia ...
Auditor-General's Department
The Auditor-General's Department provides the Parliament and public sector entities with independent professional opinions on matters related to financial management, compliance with legislative requirements.
Department for Human Services
The Department for Human Services (DHS) (previously the Department for Communities and Social Inclusion (DCSI)) brings together a range of services, funding and policy responsibilities which together support safety, equality, opportunity and justice across South Australia. The Department includes:
* Community and Organisational Support
* Disability SA
* Disability Services
* Domiciliary Care
* Financial and Business Services
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Housing SA
The South Australian Housing Trust (SAHT) is an independent statutory authority originally established by the Government of South Australia responsible for providing low-cost rental housing to working people and their families, as a means of su ...
* HomeStart Finance
* Interpreting and Translating Centre
* Multicultural SA
* NDIS and Service Reform
* Northern Connections
* Office for Problem Gambling
* Office for Volunteers
* Office for Women
* Office for Youth
* Policy and Community Development
* Procurement and Grants
* Screening Unit
* Southern Connections
* State Recovery
* Youth Justice
Department for Correctional Services
*Department for Correctional Services
South Australian Country Fire Service
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South Australian Country Fire Service
The South Australian Country Fire Service (SACFS, commonly abbreviated as CFS) is a volunteer based fire service in the Australian state of South Australia. The CFS has responsibility as the Control Agency for firefighting and hazardous mater ...
Courts Administration Authority
*Courts Administration Authority
Defence SA
*Defence SA
Electoral Commission of South Australia
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Electoral Commission of South Australia
Department for Education
The Department for Education delivers and coordinates children's services and schooling.
Department of Environment and Water
Department for Health and Wellbeing (SA Health)
SA Health is responsible for protecting and improving public health by providing leadership in health reform, policy development and planning:
Local Health Networks (LHNs):
*Central Adelaide LHN
**
Royal Adelaide Hospital
**
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
**Hampstead Rehabilitation Hospital
**Woodville GP Plus Health Centre
*Southern Adelaide LHN
**Noarlunga Hospital
**
Flinders Medical Centre
**
Repatriation General Hospital
**Aldinga, Noarlunga, Morphett Vale and Marion GP Plus Health Care Centres
*Northern Adelaide LHN
**
Modbury Hospital
**
Lyell McEwin Hospital
The Lyell McEwin Hospital (LMH) is a major tertiary hospital located in Adelaide, South Australia that provides medical, surgical, diagnostic, emergency and support services to a population of more than 300,000 people living primarily in Adelaid ...
**Modbury and Elizabeth GP Plus Health Care Centres
*Country Health SA LHN
**country hospitals
**Ceduna and Port Pirie GP Plus Health Care Centres
**Patient Assistance Transport Schemen (PATS)
*Women's and Children's LHN
**
Women's and Children's Hospital
The Women's and Children's Hospital is located on King William Road in North Adelaide, Australia.
It is one of the major hospitals in Adelaide and is a teaching hospital of the University of Adelaide, the University of South Australia and Flin ...
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SA Ambulance Service
SA Ambulance Service (SAAS) is a State Government agency under SA Health, that provides emergency ambulance transport, clinical care and non emergency patient transport services to over 1.5 million people, distributed across an area of 1,043,5 ...
The following agencies report to a designated LHN:
*SA Dental Service
*Breastscreen SA
*Donate Life
*Prison Health
*SA Pathology
*SA Medical Imaging
*SA Pharmacy
*Biomedical Engineering
*Sterilisation
Department for Health and Ageing divisions:
*Office for the Ageing
**Adelaide Aged Care Assessment Team
**Seniors Card
**retirement villages
*Public Health and Clinical Systems
**public health
**communicable disease control
**emergency management
**health promotion
*Health Reform
**delivery of the New Royal Adelaide Hospital and Glenside Campus redevelopment
**
South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute
**alignment with national reform agenda
*E-Health Systems
**EPAS (Electronic Patient Enterprise System)
**information strategy
**ICT
*Health System Development
**Aboriginal health
**media and communications, intergovernment relations
**service development
*Mental Health and Substance Abuse
**mental health operations
**Drug and Alcohol Services SA (DASSA)
*SA Health Workforce
**human resources and workforce health
**organisational development and learning
*Health System Performance
**assets, finance, revenue, procurement
**records management
Legal Services Commission
*The Legal Services Commission is a
statutory authority
A statutory body or statutory authority is a body set up by law (statute) that is authorised to implement certain legislation on behalf of the relevant country or state, sometimes by being Primary and secondary legislation, empowered or deleg ...
, independent of government, "funded by both the South Australian and the Commonwealth Governments to provide legal assistance to South Australians".
South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service
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South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service
The South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service (SAMFS) is the fire service for metropolitan and urban South Australia, as well as large townships. The Metropolitan Fire Service is constituted under the ''Fire and Emergency Services Act''.
The M ...
Department of Infrastructure and Transport
The Department of Infrastructure and Transport (renamed from Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure in August 2020) has responsibilities in relation to guiding and administering the South Australian planning and development assessment system, and for transport system and services. The department also works regularly with police in regards to motor vehicle registration, enforcement of speed limits and other road matters.
Department of the Premier and Cabinet
The
Department of the Premier and Cabinet (DPC) provides central agency leadership on matters that affect South Australia's prosperity. It provides economic and policy advice to support the government's strategic priorities, the state's international relationships and the management of ICT Strategy, innovation and investment. DPC publishes and advances South Australia's Strategic Plan and has expressed commitments to community engagement, excellence in service delivery and good business practice.
Its responsibilities include, among others:
*Aboriginal affairs and
Reconciliation
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Arts and culture
*Art and heritage conservation
*Community engagement
*
ICT
ICT may refer to:
Sciences and technology
* Information and communications technology
* Image Constraint Token, in video processing
* Immunochromatographic test, a rapid immunoassay used to detect diseases such as anthrax
* In-circuit test, in ...
,
digital and cyber security
*Development of
Lot Fourteen
Lot Fourteen is a business and technology precinct at the eastern end of North Terrace in Adelaide city centre, South Australia. The site formerly accommodated the old Royal Adelaide Hospital, which was moved to a new building at the western e ...
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Multicultural affairs
*Emergency management
Primary Industries and Regions SA (PIRSA)
Primary Industries and Regions SA
Primary Industries and Regions SA (PIRSA), also known as Primary Industries and Regions South Australia, and the Department of Primary Industries and Regions SA, is an agency of the South Australian Government whose focus is the economic developme ...
(PIRSA),
formerly the Department of Primary Industries and Regions South Australia, is an agency focussed on driving economic growth in the state. Its aim is to "grow primary industries and drive regional development".
[ Its key areas of work include ]primary sector
The primary sector of the economy includes any industry involved in the extraction and production of raw materials, such as farming, logging, fishing, forestry and mining.
The primary sector tends to make up a larger portion of the economy in de ...
industries
Industry may refer to:
Economics
* Industry (economics), a generally categorized branch of economic activity
* Industry (manufacturing), a specific branch of economic activity, typically in factories with machinery
* The wider industrial secto ...
(in SA, mainly agriculture
Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to ...
, viticulture
Viticulture (from the Latin word for ''vine'') or winegrowing (wine growing) is the cultivation and harvesting of grapes. It is a branch of the science of horticulture. While the native territory of ''Vitis vinifera'', the common grape vine, ran ...
and farming of livestock
Livestock are the domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to provide labor and produce diversified products for consumption such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool. The term is sometimes used to refer solely to animals ...
),aquaculture
Aquaculture (less commonly spelled aquiculture), also known as aquafarming, is the controlled cultivation ("farming") of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, mollusks, algae and other organisms of value such as aquatic plants (e.g. lot ...
, and Biosecurity
Biosecurity refers to measures aimed at preventing the introduction and/or spread of harmful organisms (e.g. viruses, bacteria, etc.) to animals and plants in order to minimize the risk of transmission of infectious disease. In agriculture, thes ...
.South Australian Research and Development Institute
The South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) is the principal research institute of the Government of South Australia, with a network of research centres, laboratories and field sites both in metropolitan Adelaide and through ...
(SARDI) is the state government's principal research institute, and forms part of PIRSA.
Department of Treasury and Finance
Department of Treasury and Finance, in the portfolio of the Treasurer of South Australia
The Treasurer of South Australia is the Cabinet minister in the Government of South Australia who is responsible for the financial management of that state's budget sector. The Urban Renewal Authority, trading as Renewal SA, lies within the T ...
, provides economic, policy and financial advice to the Government, manages the whole of Government financial management processes, including preparation of the state budget, and provides finance-related services across Government.
, the Urban Renewal Authority, trading as Renewal SA, is within the Treasurer's portfolio.
SAFECOM
The South Australian Fire and Emergency Services Commission (SAFECOM) oversees volunteers and employees within the fire and emergency services sector.[ ]
SAFECOM works with are:
South Australia Police
*South Australia Police
South Australia Police (SAPOL) is the police force of the Australian state of South Australia. SAPOL is an independent statutory agency of the Government of South Australia directed by the Commissioner of Police, who reports to the Minister for ...
Department for Innovation and Skills
*Aboriginal Affairs & Reconciliation
**Aboriginal Lands Trust
* Arts SA
Arts South Australia (previously Arts SA) was responsible for managing the South Australian Government's funding for the arts and cultural heritage from about 1996 until late 2018, when it was progressively dismantled, a process complete by early ...
** Carrick Hill
Carrick Hill is a publicly accessible historic property at the foot of the Adelaide Hills, in the suburb of Springfield, in South Australia. It was the Adelaide home of Sir Edward "Bill" Hayward and his wife Ursula (née Barr-Smith), and con ...
Trust
** Art Gallery of South Australia
The Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), established as the National Gallery of South Australia in 1881, is located in Adelaide. It is the most significant visual arts museum in the Australian state of South Australia. It has a collection of ...
** South Australian Museum
** State Library of South Australia
The State Library of South Australia, or SLSA, formerly known as the Public Library of South Australia, located on North Terrace, Adelaide, is the official library of the Australian state of South Australia. It is the largest public research l ...
**History Trust of South Australia
**South Australian Country Arts Trust
** State Opera of South Australia
**Adelaide Festival Corporation
** Adelaide Festival Centre
Adelaide Festival Centre, Australia's first multi-purpose arts centre and the home of South Australia's performing arts, was built in the 1970s, designed by Hassell Architects. The Festival Theatre opened in June 1973 with the rest of the centr ...
Trust
** South Australian Film Corporation
South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC) is a South Australian Government statutory corporation established in 1972 to engage in film production and promote the film industry, located in Adelaide, South Australia. The Adelaide Studios are managed ...
** State Theatre Company of South Australia
* Skills and Employment
* Strategy and Business Services
* Industry and Innovation
* International Engagement, Trade, Immigration and Higher Education
* Mineral Resources
* Energy Resources
*Energy Markets and Programs
* Resources Infrastructure & Investment Task Force
*Training and Skills Commission
*Office of the Training Advocate
*Health Industries SA
*Office for the Commissioner for Aboriginal Engagement
*BioSA Advisory Board
*Office of the Industry Advocate
*Office of the Small Business Commissioner
*Education Adelaide
*Investment Attraction South Australia
*Office of the Economic Development Board
*Australian Cyber Collaboration Centre
The Australian Cyber Collaboration Centre (A3C) is a not-for-profit organisation funded largely by South Australian Government grants and based on collaboration of its member organisations, which focuses on cyber security. It is connected to t ...
, opened July 2020
State Emergency Service
*State Emergency Service
Unclassified
*Capital City Committee Directorate
*Adelaide Cemeteries Authority
* Adelaide Film Festival
*Local Government Grants Commission
* Outback Communities Authority
*Office for Recreation, Sport and Racing
*South Australian Sports Institute[http://www.sasi.sa.gov.au/]
See also
* Government of South Australia
The Government of South Australia, also referred to as the South Australian Government, SA Government or more formally, His Majesty’s Government, is the Australian state democratic administrative authority of South Australia. It is modelled o ...
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