The Department of Housing was an

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department with responsibility for housing, including the administration of housing schemes and grants that existed between December 1963 and November 1973.

Structure

The Department was a

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department, staffed by officials who were responsible to the Minister for Housing. When

Annabelle Rankin Dame Annabelle Jane Mary Rankin DBE (28 July 190830 August 1986) was an Australian politician and diplomat. She was the first woman from Queensland elected to parliament, the first woman federal departmental minister, and the first Australian ...

was appointed the Minister of the department in 1966 she became the first woman to administer an Australian government department.

References

Housing Housing, or more generally, living spaces, refers to the construction and assigned usage of houses or buildings individually or collectively, for the purpose of shelter. Housing ensures that members of society have a place to live, whether it ...

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