The Department of Sport, Recreation and Tourism was an

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department that existed between March 1983 and July 1987.

History

The Department was one of three new Departments established by the

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in March 1983, to ensure the priorities of the Labor government could be given effect to readily following the federal election of that month. The Department was dissolved in July 1987 as part of a large overhaul of the Public Service that reduced the number of departments from 28 to 17. Its functions were dispersed between several departments, and the department's Secretary, Bruce MacDonald, was appointed to a senior position in the Data Protection Agency.

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: *Sport and recreation *Tourism, including the tourist industry

Structure

The Department was an

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department, staffed by officials responsible to the Minister for Sport, Recreation and Tourism, John Brown. The

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of the Department was Bruce MacDonald.

References

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