Formed 20 December 1977 | Dissolved 8 December 1979 | |
Preceding Department Department of National Resources - for energy planning, research, minerals exploration and resource assessment, water resources and electricity, geodesy and mapping
Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development - for decentralisation Superseding agency Department of National Development and Energy Jurisdiction Commonwealth of Australia Headquarters Australian Capital Territory | ||
The Department of National Development was an Australian government department that existed between December 1977 and December 1979. It was the second Australian Government Department to be named the Department of National Development.
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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 and in the Department's annual reports.
At its creation, the Department was responsible for the following:
Structure
The Department was an Commonwealth Public Service department, staffed by officials who were responsible to the Minister for National Development, Kevin Newman. The Secretary of the Department was A.J. Woods.
References
Department of National Development (1977–79) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA