The following is a list of courts and tribunals of the Commonwealth of Australia:

List of boards, commissions, courts, and tribunals

Sitting boards, commissions, courts, and tribunals

Sitting boards

* Australian Accounting Standards Board *

Australian Classification Board The Australian Classification Board (ACB or CB) is an Australian government statutory body responsible for the classification and censorship of films, video games and publications for exhibition, sale or hire in Australia. The ACB was establis ...

* Australian Motor Vehicle Certification Board * Companies Auditors Disciplinary Board * CSS Board *

Foreign Investment Review Board The Australian Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB), "examines proposals by foreign persons to invest in Australia and makes recommendations to the Treasurer on those subject to the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975 and Australia's f ...

* Life Insurance Actuarial Standards Board * Military Superannuation and Benefits Board of Trustees No. 1 * Pooled Development Funds Registration Board * Professional Standards Board for Patent and Trade Marks Attorneys * PSS Board * Veterans' Review Board

Sitting councils

* Australian Loan Council * Administrative Review Council * Advisory Council on Intellectual Property * Anindilyakawa Land Council * ANZLIC—The Spatial Information Council * Australia Council * Australian Defence Force Academy Consultative Council *

Australian Heritage Council The Australian Heritage Council is the principal adviser to the Australian Government on heritage matters. It was established on 19 February 2004 by the ''Australian Heritage Council Act 2003''. The Council replaced the Australian Heritage Commi ...

* Australian Landcare Council * Australian Learning and Teaching Council * Australian Maritime Defence Council * Australian National Council on Drugs *

Australian Pharmaceutical Advisory Council The Australian Pharmaceutical Advisory Council (APAC), active between 1996 and 2006, was "a consultative forum that brought together stakeholders from the medical, nursing and pharmacy professions, as well as industry, consumers and government, t ...

* Australian Political Exchange Council * Australian Procurement and Construction Ministerial Council * Australian Research Council *

Australian Science, Technology and Engineering Council The Australian Science, Technology and Engineering Council (ASTEC) was an Australian government agency. ASTEC was established in April 1977 as the Australian Science and Technology Council to advise the Australian government on matters relating to ...

* Australian Statistics Advisory Council * Australian Transport Council * Business-Industry-Higher Education Collaboration Council *

Central Land Council The Central Land Council (CLC) is a land council that represents the Aboriginal peoples of the southern half of the Northern Territory of Australia (NT), predominantly with regard to land issues. it is one of four land councils in the Northern T ...

* Commonwealth Consumer Affairs Advisory Council * Community Services Ministers' Advisory Council * Criminology Research Council * Defence Exporters Council * Defence Reserves Support Council * Environment Protection and Heritage Council * Family Law Council *

Financial Reporting Council The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) is an independent regulator in the UK and Ireland based in London Wall in the City of London, responsible for regulating auditors, accountants and actuaries, and setting the UK's Corporate Governance and ...

* Financial Sector Advisory Council *

Great Barrier Reef Ministerial Council Great may refer to: Descriptions or measurements * Great, a relative measurement in physical space, see Size * Greatness, being divine, majestic, superior, majestic, or transcendent People * List of people known as "the Great" *Artel Great (born ...

* International Legal Services Advisory Council *

Kimberley Land Council Kimberley Land Council Aboriginal Corporation, known as Kimberley Land Council (KLC), is an association of Aboriginal people in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The land council was formed at a meeting at Noonkanbah Station in May 1 ...

* Local Government and Planning Ministers' Council * Ministerial Council for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs * Ministerial Council for Corporations * Ministerial Council on Consumer Affairs * Ministerial Council on Gambling * Ministerial Council on Mineral and Petroleum Resources * Ministerial Council on the Administration of Justice * Murray-Darling Basin Ministerial Council * National Alternative Dispute Resolution Advisory Council *

National Australia Day Council The National Australia Day Council (NADC) is a non-profit social enterprise owned by the Australian Government and is the national coordinating body for the Australian of the Year awards and Australia Day. It was established in 1979 and inc ...

National Competition Council The National Competition Council (NCC) is a research and advisory body, legislated by Part IIA of the ''Competition and Consumer Act 2010.'' The NCC was originally established in 1995 by the Council of Australian Governments. Funded by the Commonw ...

National Environment Protection Council National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, c ...

National Environmental Education Council National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, c ...

National Health and Medical Research Council The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) is the main statutory authority of the Australian Government responsible for medical research. It was the eighth largest research funding body in the world in 2016, and NHMRC-funded rese ...

National Indigenous Council The National Indigenous Council (NIC) was an appointed advisory body to the Australian Government through the Minister's for Indigenous Affairs' Taskforce on Indigenous Affairs (MTIA) established in November 2004 (not to be confused with the ea ...

* National Rural Advisory Council * National Workplace Relations Consultative Council * Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council *

New South Wales World Heritage Properties Ministerial Council New is an adjective referring to something recently made, discovered, or created. New or NEW may refer to: Music * New, singer of K-pop group The Boyz Albums and EPs * ''New'' (album), by Paul McCartney, 2013 * ''New'' (EP), by Regurgitator, ...

Northern Land Council The Northern Land Council (NLC) is a land council representing the Aboriginal peoples of the Top End of the Northern Territory of Australia, with its head office in Darwin. While the NLC was established in 1974, its origins began in the strugg ...

Primary Industries Ministerial Council Primary or primaries may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Music Groups and labels * Primary (band), from Australia * Primary (musician), hip hop musician and record producer from South Korea * Primary Music, Israeli record label Works * ...

Quarantine and Exports Advisory Council A quarantine is a restriction on the movement of people, animals and goods which is intended to prevent the spread of disease or pests. It is often used in connection to disease and illness, preventing the movement of those who may have been ...

* Regional Development Council * Specialist Medical Review Council * Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area Ministerial Council *

Tiwi Land Council The Tiwi Land Council is a land council in the Northern Territory of Australia established in 1978 to represent Aboriginal Australians living on the Tiwi Islands. It was established following requests by the Tiwi people for recognition of thei ...

* Tourism Ministers' Council * Trade Policy Advisory Council * Wet Tropics Ministerial Council * Workplace Relations Ministers Council

Sitting commissions

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is the chief competition regulator of the Government of Australia, located within the Department of the Treasury. It was established in 1995 with the amalgamation of the Australian Trad ...

Australian Crime Commission The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) is a law enforcement agency established by the Australian federal government on 1 July 2016, following the merger of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) and CrimTrac. It has specialist ...

Australian Electoral Commission The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is the independent federal agency in charge of organising, conducting and supervising federal Australian elections, by-elections and referendums. Responsibilities The AEC's main responsibility is to ...

Australian Energy Market Commission The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) was set up by the Council of Australian Governments through the Ministerial Council on Energy in 2005. The AEMC was established by the ''Australian Energy Market Commission Establishment Act 2004'' ...

Australian Human Rights Commission The Australian Human Rights Commission is the national human rights institution of Australia, established in 1986 as the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) and renamed in 2008. It is a statutory body funded by, but opera ...

Australian Law Reform Commission The Australian Law Reform Commission (often abbreviated to ALRC) is an Australian independent statutory body established to conduct reviews into the law of Australia. The reviews, also called inquiries or references, are referred to the ALRC by ...

Australian Public Service Commission The Australian Public Service Commission (APSC) is a statutory agency of the Australian Government, within the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, that acts to ensure the organisational and workforce capability to meet future needs a ...

* Australian Securities and Investments Commission *

Australian Sports Commission The Australian Sports Commission (ASC) is the Australian Government commission responsible for supporting and investing in sport in Australia. The Commission incorporates the Australian Institute of Sport. From 2018 to 2022, it was known as S ...

* Australian Trade Commission (Austrade) *

Commonwealth Grants Commission The Commonwealth Grants Commission is an Australian independent statutory body that advises the Australian Government on financial assistance to the states and territories of Australia under section 96 of the Australian Constitution. The Commis ...

International Air Services Commission The International Air Services Commission (IASC) is an independent Australian Government The Australian Government, also known as the Commonwealth Government, is the national government of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitution ...

* Military Rehabilitation & Compensation Commission * Murray-Darling Basin Commission * National Mental Health Commission *

National Transport Commission The National Transport Commission (NTC), previously known as the National Road Transport Commission, is an Australian statutory body created to develop regulatory and operational reform for road, rail and intermodal transport. Under Australia's ...

* National Water Commission *

Productivity Commission The Productivity Commission is the Australian Government's principal review and advisory body on microeconomic policy, regulation and a range of other social and environmental issues. The Productivity Commission was created as an independent a ...

* Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission

Sitting courts

* High Court of Australia * Federal Court of Australia * Federal Circuit and Family Court

Sitting tribunals

Administrative Appeals Tribunal The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) is an Australian tribunal that conducts independent merits review of administrative decisions made under Commonwealth laws of the Australian Government. The AAT review decisions made by Australian Gover ...

* Australian Competition Tribunal * Copyright Tribunal * Defence Force Discipline Appeal Tribunal * Defence Force Remuneration Tribunal *

Fair Work Commission The Fair Work Commission (FWC), until 2013 known as Fair Work Australia (FWA), is the Australian industrial relations tribunal created by the ''Fair Work Act 2009'' as part of the Rudd Government's reforms to industrial relations in Austral ...

* Federal Police Disciplinary Tribunal *

National Native Title Tribunal The National Native Title Tribunal (NNTT) is an independent body established under the ''Native Title Act 1993'' in Australia as a special measure for the advancement and protection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples (Indigenous Aus ...

* National Sports Tribunal * Remuneration Tribunal Secretariat * Superannuation Complaints Tribunal

Abolished boards, courts and tribunals

Abolished boards

* Army Inventions Board * Australian Shipping Board *

Australian Wool Board The Australian Wool Board was an Australian Government statutory board that existed in its first phase between May 1936 and January 1945; in its second phase between June 1945 and June 1953; and in its third and final phase, between May 1963 and ...

* Commonwealth Marine Salvage Board

Abolished commissions

Australian Fair Pay Commission The Australian Fair Pay Commission was an Australian statutory body that existed from 2006 to 2009. It was created under the Howard Government's "''WorkChoices''" industrial relations laws in 2006 to set the minimum pay for workers. Established t ...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) (1990–2005) was the Australian Government body through which Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders were formally involved in the processes of government affecting ...

* Export Wheat Commission *

Inter-State Commission The Inter-State Commission, or Interstate Commission, is a defunct constitutional body under Australian law. The envisaged chief functions of the Inter-State Commission were to administer and adjudicate matters relating to interstate trade. The ...

(1912–1920, 1975–1989)

Abolished courts

* Australian Industrial Court (1973–1977) *

Australian Military Court The Australian Military Court (AMC) was a military service tribunal established in 2007 with the primary aim of maintaining military justice within the Australian Defence Force. In August 2009, the High Court of Australia ruled that the AMC was ...

(2007–2009) *

Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration The Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration was an Australian court that operated from 1904 to 1956 with jurisdiction to hear and arbitrate interstate industrial disputes, and to make awards. It also had the judicial functions of i ...

(1904–1956) * Commonwealth Industrial Court (1956–1973) * Family Court (1976–2021) * Federal Circuit Court / Federal Magistrates Court (1999–2021) *

Federal Court of Bankruptcy The Federal Court of Bankruptcy was an Australian court that was established in 1930, pursuant to Chapter III of the Constitution. The jurisdiction in bankruptcy was shared with state courts. (2015) 38(3) Melbourne University Law Review 996 On ...

(1930–1977) * Industrial Relations Court of Australia (1994–1996)

Abolished tribunals

* Australian Coal Industry Tribunal (1940–1995) * Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission (1973–1988) *

Australian Industrial Relations Commission The Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC), known from 1956 to 1973 as the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and from 1973 to 1988 as the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, was a tribunal with powers ...

(1988–2009) *

Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission The Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC), known from 1956 to 1973 as the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and from 1973 to 1988 as the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, was a tribunal with powers ...

(1956–1973) *Fair Work Australia (2010–2012) *

Migration Review Tribunal The Migration Review Tribunal was an Australian administrative law Australian administrative law defines the extent of the powers and responsibilities held by administrative agencies of Australian governments. It is basically a common law ...

Refugee Review Tribunal The Refugee Review Tribunal was an Australian administrative law Australian administrative law defines the extent of the powers and responsibilities held by administrative agencies of Australian governments. It is basically a common law sys ...

* Social Security Appeals Tribunal