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Department of Health and Ageing

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Formed
  
26 November 2001

Dissolved
  
18 September 2013

Preceding Department
  
Superseding agency
  
Department of Health (II)

Jurisdiction
  
Commonwealth of Australia

The Australian Federal Department of Health and Ageing was an Australian government department that existed between November 2001 and September 2013.

Contents

The Department was created after the 2001 federal election from the Department of Health and Aged Care.

Scope

Information about the department's functions and/or government funding allocation could be found in the Administrative Arrangements Orders, the annual Portfolio Budget Statements, in the Department's annual reports and on the Department's website.

According to the Administrative Arrangements Order (AAO) made on 26 November 2001, the Department dealt with:

  • Services for the aged, including carers
  • Public health and medical research
  • Health promotion and disease prevention
  • Primary health care of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
  • Pharmaceutical benefits
  • Health benefits schemes
  • Specific health services, including human quarantine
  • National drug abuse strategy
  • Regulation of quality of therapeutic goods
  • Notification and assessment of industrial chemicals
  • Gene technology regulation
  • Structure

    The Department was an Australian Public Service department, staffed by officials who were responsible to the Minister and assisting parliamentary secretary.

    The Secretary of the Department was Jane Halton, appointed in January 2002.

    References

    Department of Health and Ageing Wikipedia


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