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Department Of Home Affairs (1901–1916)
The Department of Home Affairs was an Australian government department that existed between 1901 and 1916. It was one of seven inaugural government departments of Australia established at federation. Scope Information about the department's functions and 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 dealt with: *Old-age pensions *People of special races *Acquisition of property *Acquisition of railways with state consent *Control of railways with state consent *Astronomical *Census and statistics *Public works *Federal capital *Interstate commissions *Elections *Public service Structure The Department was an Australian Public Service The Australian Public Service (APS) is the federal civil service of the Commonwealth of Australia responsible for the public administration, public policy, and public services of the depart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Of Works And Railways
The Department of Works and Railways was an Australian government department that existed between November 1916 and April 1932. At its abolition, its functions were absorbed into the Department of the Interior. Scope Information about the department's functions and 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: *Public works *Railways *Rivers The department was responsible for preparing the plans to build Old Parliament House. It also prepared building plans for retail trading blocks in Manuka, Australian Capital Territory. Structure The department was a Commonwealth Public Service department, staffed by officials who were responsible to the Minister for Works and Railways. In order of appointment, the Department's Ministers were: Patrick Lynch, William Watt, Richard Foster, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Keating (Australian Politician)
John Henry Keating (28 June 1872 – 31 October 1940) was an Australian politician who served as a Australian Senate, Senator for Tasmania from 1901 to 1923. He held ministerial office in Alfred Deakin's second government, serving as Vice-President of the Executive Council (1906–1907) and Minister for Home Affairs (Australia), Minister for Home Affairs (1907–1908). Early life Keating was born in Hobart on 28 June 1872. He was the son of Mary (née Cronley) and James Keating; his father was a carpenter and furniture-maker. Keating was educated in Hobart at Officer College and in Sydney at St Ignatius' College, Riverview. He was awarded an Associate of Arts degree by the Tasmanian Council for Education in 1890, and went on to become one of the University of Tasmania's first law graduates in 1896. Keating was admitted as a barrister in August 1894 and established a practice in Lefroy, Tasmania, Lefroy. After two years he moved to Launceston, Tasmania, Launceston. He was an of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Public Service
The Australian Public Service (APS) is the federal civil service of the Commonwealth of Australia responsible for the public administration, public policy, and public services of the departments and executive and statutory agencies of the Government of Australia. The Australian Public Service was established at the Federation of Australia in 1901 as the Commonwealth Public Service and modelled on the Westminster system and United Kingdom's Civil Service. The establishment and operation of the Australian Public Service is governed by the '' Public Service Act 1999'' of the Parliament of Australia as an "apolitical public service that is efficient and effective in serving the Government, the Parliament and the Australian public". The conduct of Australian public servants is also governed by a Code of Conduct and guided by the APS Values set by the Australian Public Service Commission. As such, the employees and officers of the Australian Public Service are obliged to serve t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Machinery Of Government
The machinery of government (sometimes abbreviated as MoG) is the interconnected structures and processes of government, such as the functions and accountability of departments in the executive branch of government. The term is used particularly in the context of changes to established systems of public administration where different elements of machinery are created. The phrase 'machinery of government' was thought to have been first used by author John Stuart Mill in '' Considerations on Representative Government'' (1861). It was notably used to a public audience by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a radio broadcast in 1934, commenting on the role of the National Recovery Administration (NRA) in delivering the New Deal. A number of national governments, including those of Australia, Canada, South Africa, and the United Kingdom, have adopted the term in official usage. Australia In Australia, the terms 'machinery of government changes' and 'administrative re-arrange ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federation Of Australia
The Federation of Australia was the process by which the six separate British self-governing colonies of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia (which also governed what is now the Northern Territory), and Western Australia agreed to unite and form the Commonwealth of Australia, establishing a system of federalism in Australia. The colonies of Fiji and New Zealand were originally part of this process, but they decided not to join the federation. Following federation, the six colonies that united to form the Commonwealth of Australia as states kept the systems of government (and the bicameral legislatures) that they had developed as separate colonies, but they also agreed to have a federal government that was responsible for matters concerning the whole nation. When the Constitution of Australia came into force, on 1 January 1901, the colonies collectively became states of the Commonwealth of Australia. The efforts to bring about federation in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne
Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victoria (state), Victoria, and the second most-populous city in Australia, after Sydney. The city's name generally refers to a metropolitan area also known as Greater Melbourne, comprising an urban agglomeration of Local Government Areas of Victoria#Municipalities of Greater Melbourne, 31 local government areas. The name is also used to specifically refer to the local government area named City of Melbourne, whose area is centred on the Melbourne central business district and some immediate surrounds. The metropolis occupies much of the northern and eastern coastlines of Port Phillip Bay and spreads into the Mornington Peninsula, part of West Gippsland, as well as the hinterlands towards the Yarra Valley, the Dandenong Ranges, and the Macedon R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Miller (public Servant)
Colonel David Miller (1857 – 1934) was a senior Australian Commonwealth Public Servant, appointed in the year of Federation to head the Department of Home Affairs. Life and career David Miller was born in Glebe, Sydney on 27 March 1857. He joined the NSW Public Service in 1875. His military career started ten years later when he was appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in the New South Wales Militia. In 1901, Miller was appointed Secretary of the Department of Home Affairs. He was made Administrator of the Federal Capital Territory in 1912, occupying dual positions, and transferring to Canberra. His residency was the first permanent building in Canberra and he was responsible for conducting an international design competition for establishing the national capital. Miller was not a fan of the Walter Burley Griffin design selected for Canberra, believing it to be too expensive to be realised. Miller retired officially from Canberra in his final position as Secretary of the Departmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Mahon
Hugh Mahon (6 January 1857 – 28 August 1931) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and held ministerial office in the party's earliest governments. He served terms as Postmaster-General (1904), Minister for Home Affairs (1908–1909), and Minister for External Affairs (1914–1916). However, Mahon is chiefly known as the only person to be expelled from the Parliament of Australia, for making "seditious and disloyal utterances" about the British Empire. He failed to win his seat back at the by-election. Early life Mahon was born at Killurin, near Tullamore (at that time in King's County, now in County Offaly, Ireland) and migrated in 1869 with his family to Canada and the United States, where he learned the printing trade. He returned to Ireland in about 1880 and worked as editor of the ''New Ross Standard'', reporting on the infamous Shanbogh killing as well as helping to organise the defence of the two accused. He was actively i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Ewing (Australian Politician)
Sir Thomas Thomson Ewing KCMG (9 October 1856 – 15 September 1920) was an Australian politician. He began his career in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (1885–1901) before winning election to the Division of Richmond at the inaugural 1901 federal election. He held ministerial office in the second Deakin government as Vice-President of the Executive Council (1905–1906), Minister for Home Affairs (1906–1907), and Minister for Defence (1907–1908). Early life Ewing was born at Pitt Town, New South Wales to clergyman Thomas Campbell Ewing and Elizabeth, née Thomson. Despite an intention to study for the Bar, he joined a surveyor's party at the age of 17, and became a licensed surveyor with the New South Wales Department of Lands in 1877. He married Margaret Russell MacCabe on 1 October 1879 at Wollongong, with whom he had three sons and two daughters, known as, Francis Peter Ewing born 1880, olive Margaret Ewing born in 1882, Thomas Campbell Ewing born in 1884, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Of Home And Territories
The Department of Home and Territories was an Australian government department that existed between November 1916 and December 1928. Scope Information about the department's functions and 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 dealt with: *Astronomy *Census and statistics *Elections *Franchise *Immigration and emigration *Influx of criminals *Lands and surveys *Meteorology *Naturalization and aliens *Pearl shelling and trepang fisheries in Australian waters beyond territorial limits *People of races (other than the Aboriginal races in any state) for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws *Seat of government *Territories forming part of the Commonwealth Structure The Department was an Australian Public Service The Australian Public Service (APS) is the federal civil service of the Commonwealth o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Littleton Groom
Sir Littleton Ernest Groom Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George, KCMG King's Counsel, KC (22 April 18676 November 1936) was an Australian politician. He held ministerial office under four prime ministers between 1905 and 1925, and subsequently served as Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives, Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1926 to 1929. Groom was the son of William Henry Groom, who had arrived in Australia as a Convicts in Australia, convict but became a prominent public figure in the Colony of Queensland. He was a lawyer by profession, entering federal parliament at the 1901 Darling Downs by-election following his father's death. Groom was first appointed to cabinet by Alfred Deakin in 1905. Over the following two decades he served as Minister for Home Affairs (Australia), Minister for Home Affairs (1905–1906), Attorney-General of Australia, Attorney-General (1906–1908), Minister for Foreign Affairs (Australia), External Affair ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dugald Thomson
Dugald Thomson (28 December 1849 – 27 November 1922) was an Australian politician. He campaigned for Federation of Australia, Federation as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (1894–1901), and was subsequently elected to the new federal House of Representatives (Australia), House of Representatives (1901–1910). He served as Minister for Home Affairs (Australia), Minister for Home Affairs in the Reid government from 1904 to 1905. Early life Thomson was born in Camberwell, London, England, to Scottish parents Jane (née Duncan) and John Thomson. His father was an insurance broker. The family emigrated to South Australia the year after he was born, and later moved to Victoria. Thomson completed his education in England and trained at his uncle's business in Liverpool. After spending two years at sea, he returned to Melbourne at the age of 19 and joined the merchant firm of Robert Harper (Australian politician), Robert Harper. He set up a Sydney branch in 1877 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
